From Burns & McDonnell
A thousand years ago, mankind began to find ways to pipe water into homes and buildings. Today, building a home or business that had no water piped in would be unthinkable. In the mid 1800s, natural gas was harnessed and piped into buildings. Today, it's estimated that the network of gas pipelines in the U.S., if balanced end-to-end, would stretch to the moon and back twice. In 1883 and 1884, Thomas Edison introduced the world's first economically viable system capable of centrally generating and distributing electricity. In ensuring years, a wide-scale electrical system was created, delivering electricity into homes and buildings. In the U.S. today, building a home or business without electricity "piped in" would be unthinkable. For each of three major breakthroughs, a great deal of new technology was needed, and initial development costs were extremely high. But would anyone seriously argue whether it has been worth the trouble? So why aren't we all piping natural light?
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