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...Share. He spoke of its operating companies, their health and prosperity. In the last year, and in the U. S. alone, they got 75,500 new customers for electricity, 17,900 new customers for gas. For the week ending Sept. 26, 1935, an electric output of 215,000,000 kilowatt hours marked an all-time peak for the system. Domestic gross...
Total power production in the U. S. last week was 1,863,483,000 kilowatt hours-12.3% above the same week year ago, 20% above the same week of 1932 and the highest figure in U. S. history...
Electrical output: Plan-19,000,000,000 kilowatt hours in 1932-33; performance -13,500,000,000 kilowatt hours in 1934, much of which could not be absorbed for lack of sufficient motors to be driven, lamps lighted...
Most alarming utility news of the week, however, was a report which Chairman Frank P. Walsh of the New York Power Authority submitted to the White House. In a 400-page survey of the cost of power distribution, it declared that the average domestic rate of 6? per kilowatt hour in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England could be cut to 3½? and still leave the private utilities a "fair" profit. By certain accounting formulas which left utility operators blinking in amazement, Mr. Walsh calculated that development of the St. Lawrence Waterway power would save consumers...
Lightning's energy amounts to some 1,000,000,000 kilowatt-hours in a year, should some day be harnessed by man. Anatomy of a lightning flash: a "leader" stroke shoots from a negatively charged cloud-bottom to positively charged Earth; the main stroke traces the leader's path in the opposite direction. New photographs with a special speed camera show the leader stroke varying in length from 1.6 to 4.7 miles, in speed from 810 to 19,000 miles per second.-Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, University of Capetown...