Word: kilowatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mercury turbine was first conceived about 1912 by the late William LeRoy Emmett. He tinkered with small-scale machines in G.E. laboratories until 1922, when the progressive Hartford (Conn.) Electric Light Co. volunteered to install a 1,800-kilowatt mercury plant for commercial power production. It was not a thumping success, nor were two 20,000-kw. plants built for the New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. at Kearny and for G.E. at Schenectady...
...Kearny plant was rebuilt in 1940, run for over a year under all conditions. Its efficiency averages over 37%, reports Engineer Harold N. Hackett. It uses 1,300 fewer B.T.U. (fuel heat units) to produce a kilowatt-hour than any steam plant in historya saving of about 12%. "Future applications of the [mercury with steam] cycle may exceed 50% thermal efficiency," predicts Hackett...
Congress didn't trust us this time, and decided to settle the question with a national law. In many localities, the saving of power for industrial use is vital. It has been estimated that "war time" will divert 736 million kilowatt hours for use in war industry...
...rough idea: an extra hour of daylight for the nation should cut down the national consumption of electricity between dark and bedtime (the peak demand for electric power), divert 736 million kilowatt-hours annually to war-production plants. Even so, a power shortage for 1942 is predicted...
...President, quite understood what the country was letting itself in for. Shortly before he signed the bill, President Roosevelt wrote to Judge Landis urging baseball as usual and suggesting more night games. To floodlight Ebbets Field (home of the Brooklyn Dodgers) for a single night game requires 18,560 kilowatt-hours of electric power...