Coal, steam, empire and COP26 : Glasgow's emissions story [Herald Scotland]





Date: 06/11/2021

It's 1765. James Watt is wandering across Glasgow Green, pondering the inefficiencies of the early steam engine, when he comes up with the idea of a separate condensing chamber. With a eureka moment something is unleashed and a chain of events and inventions unfolds that will lead us to railways, steam ships, the internal combustion engine and a few centuries of frenetic burning of fossil fuels. All of it gushing out carbon dioxide.


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