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In 1954, engineers at the Obninsk plant southwest of Moscow connected a 5-megawatt graphite-moderated reactor to the Soviet grid and became the first station anywhere to sell nuclear electricity to paying customers, nearly three years before the West managed the same feat at Calder Hall.
A pumped-hydro station in Wales moves 7.2 million cubic metres of water up a mountain at night and releases it through six turbines in the morning, delivering roughly 1,728 megawatts to the grid within 12 seconds of the operator pressing the start button
In 1901, workers at Spindletop in Texas struck oil at roughly 340 metres and could not cap the well for nine days as it spewed an estimated 100,000 barrels a day, more than every other producing well in the United States combined, and helped launch the age of cheap petroleum
Nikola Tesla demonstrated alternating current at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair by lighting 200,000 incandescent bulbs from a single Westinghouse generator, undercutting Edison's DC bid by roughly half and effectively deciding which current would carry electricity into every home on the planet for the next 130 years.
