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...prophecy is based on the discovery that the hydrogen in one teaspoonful of water, if cornered, properly attacked with an electric current, and turned into helium, would yield 2,000,000 kilowatt hours or 275,000 horse power. This fact grants then sun a longer lease on sunbeams that was previously thought possible. Formerly the physicist believed that the geologist assigned greater antiquity to the earth and sun than the caloric energy of the two would allow. But not that it is known that sun than the caloric energy of the two would allow. But now that it is known...
...total saving would be 75 watts per student, or 112,500 watt-hours. Call it 120 kilowatt-hours...
...cents a kilowatt hour, this is a saving of $12 a night...