Word: cooperatives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Muscle Shoals, Ala., the world's largest hydro-electric plant -600,000 h. p. in spring floods, 100,000 h. p. minimum-is now being built. Its construction is under the astute eye of Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, one of the two brothers responsible for the Keokuk and Niagara plants, not to mention various South American projects of great magnitude which they have designed, separately and together...
...other Cooper, Engineer Dexter P., sits on a forest of blue prints, surrounded by draftsmen and tidewater inspectors, in an office on Campobello Island near the head of the Bay of Fundy. About the island and up into bottlenecked bays, the fabulous tides of Fundy swirl in and out unceasingly, marking a difference of 27 feet between flood...
...Cooper's blueprints contain his plans (published last week) for an ancient scheme never yet effected on a large scale-"letting the ocean do the work." Along the Pacific Coast one occasionally sees a battery of barrels or floating cylinders sapping a mite of Ocean's strength as they are slid up and down on ratchets by the incoming rollers. There are still visible along the Atlantic Coast, relics of crude paddle-wheel tide mills, which worked only with the falling tides and kept their operators up at annoying hours as the tide changed its time of fluctuation...
...Cooper plan transcends such feeble efforts as far as the locomotive outclassed the wheelbarrow. It calls for great sea walls, with water gates to shut the 100 sq. mi. of Passamaquoddy Bay into an upper pool. Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close...
...heat and motivation. Maine has a law against the export of water power manufactured within her borders. But that law is thought only to restrict fresh-water power. At a popular referendum to be held in September, the people of Maine are expected to set the restriction aside from Cooper's Fundy plan. To induce the voters to do this, Mr. Cooper has placarded the state far and wide. Sanctions from the U. S. and Canada will also be forthcoming...