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Year and one-half ago Inventor Claude went to Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to build a 12,000-kilowatt plant, big enough to supply a town of 25,000 people. This plant would, he predicted, be 70% efficient and would supply power at half its present cost. Inventor Claude's principle, old to physicists, rests on the fact that water's boiling point is governed by pressure. Lower the pressure sufficiently and water will boil at room temperature. Why not, reasoned Inventor Claude, put warm surface sea water (between 79-86° F. in tropical seas) in a boiler...
Warned Nebraska's Senator Norris last week: "Under that [Finney] decision the Secretary of the Interior is able to nullify the most important provision in the Boulder Dam Bill and give to the power trust every kilowatt of power generated by the expenditure of public money at Boulder...
...with the broad, enlightened and public-spirited policy of the Morgan firm in dealing with the questions in which the people are concerned. The fact that current is being delivered to household consumers by the Province of Ontario on the Canadian side of the river at 2 ¢ per kilowatt hour and at 8 ¢ on the American side tells its own story...
...January 17, 1928. He argued, among other things, that there was no problem of interstate transmission of electricity to be investigated. He said, "Based on the study made by the School of Business Administration of Harvard University, it would seem that the interstate traffic in the sale of Kilowatt hours amounts to only 9.06 per cent out of the total output in this country...
...report of (say) Jordan Motors. When a good Jordan report comes out, everyone gets a mental picture of many a Jordan hastening along the nation's highways, but Public Service Corp. probably suggests only a picture of vague turbines and shadowy dynamos. Yet if popular timepieces recorded kilowatt instead of solar hours, Public Service Corp. 1928 earnings of over $22,000,000 would suggest bright lamps in New Jersey homes, savory roasts in New Jersey gas-stoves, whirring wheels in New Jersey factories. It would also suggest millions of trolley rides and bus rides on Public Service Corp. controlled lines...