Word: kilowatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, by getting them up before dawn. Clarence Lea explained: home consumption, morning or night, is of secondary importance; the peak consumption of power is caused by factories and offices between 5 and 7 p.m. By cutting down on this load, the Administration hopes to save 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year-enough juice to produce over 70,000,000 Ib. of much-needed aluminum for planes...
...custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats. The General was later informed that he had wasted 65,000 kilowatt hours. He was much surprised...
...turbine's initial steam pressure of 2,300 lb. per sq. in surpasses highest previous pressures for U.S. central stations by a good 900 lb. Superheated to 940° F., the blasting steam operates the turbine at 3,600 r.p.m., can turn out 76,500 kilowatts. It converts one pound of mediocre Indiana soft coal (11,500 B.t.u.) into one kilowatt hour of electricity...
...each kilowatt hour demanded six to eight lb. of coal...
...water power: Federal Power Commission reports show Alcoa's power facilities growing, but it controls only 360,000 kilowatt hours of an estimated 117 billion U.S. capacity-"an insignificant portion...