Word: hydros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for this hunt for new capacity is partly Act of God. Last summer's drought lowered the level of the rivers which feed the 27% of U. S. power capacity which is hydro instead of steam. Last year when water was plentiful, hydro output set a new record: 41,500,000,000 kilowatt hours, 38% of the total...
...August 1939, when total U. S. power production was up about 10% over August 1938, hydro production was down 8%, and steam plants had to plug into hydro's distribution outlets to stave off a power famine. August steam plant output jumped 21%. September told a similar story. Most acute water shortage was in TVA country, in New England (where August hydro output fell 34%), in the Middle West (where rainfall had been ⅓ to½ of normal). Part of last month's coal crisis (TIME, Oct. 2) was due to utilities' emergency demands. Another reason...
...Colorado Springs' thriving water department (also city-operated) it has paid $610,000 for use of water gathered from the sides of Pikes Peak, which turns the wheels of the hydro plants on the way down to the settling basins...
...production jumped from 4,251,000 to 17,600,000 tons yearly; oil and gas production jumped from 11,749,000 to 30,600,000 tons; electrical production increased from five billion kilowatt-hours to more than 36 billion; 11,300 kilometers of railroads were built, as well as hydro-electric projects, chemical plants, textile mills...
...greenhouses on the eucalyptus-shaded campus of the University of California, Dr. William Frederick Gericke has worked out a technique for growing flowers and vegetables in shallow tanks of water, containing in solution the minerals that plants must have. Dr. Gericke calls this kind of crop-growing "hydroponics" (Greek, hydro, water; ponos, labor). His tanks have yielded some remarkable results (TIME, March 1, 1937, et seq.), but there has been much argument over whether hydroponics has any commercial value. Nevertheless, several commercial growers are using the Gericke system, foreign governments have asked questions, and the National Resources Committee has spot...