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...Lilienthal's chief job as one of TVA's three directors. Birmingham was the first city in TVA's area to vote on whether it would take over the local privately-owned light & power system and buy current from TVA at an estimated 7/10? per kilowatt-hour wholesale, or continue to patronize private enterprises. In the voting, privateering...
...invented a "sun cooker" with which he roasts meat, bakes bread. Two years ago Germany's Dr. Bruno Lange discovered a way of converting sunlight into electric current a hundredfold more efficiently than had been done before (TIME, Feb. 1 6, 1931). But to run a 300,000-kilowatt power station would require a square mile of Dr. Lange's silver selenide cells...
...index of automobile production, even allowing for a proportional seasonal decline, dropped to 46 although its average for the last quarter was well on the sunny side of 60. ¶Electric power output fell to 1,618,000,000 kilowatt hours compared to 1,663,000,000 last quarter in spite of the fact that a seasonal increase would be normal...
...average U. S. householder last month paid about 6? per kilowatt hour for his electricity. T. V. A. proposed to supply the same class of consumers in the Tennessee Valley at an average rate of 2? per k.w.h. Muscle Shoals power is to be sold wholesale to municipalities with their own distributing plants at 7/10? per k.w.h. It will be retailed as follows...
Professor Walter Rautenstrauch, Columbia Technocrat, reasoned that machines have made "the substitution of kilowatt hours (energy hours) for man hours . . . inevitable." Dr. John Pease Norton, Suffield, Conn, financial writer, called for the use of an "Edison dollar"-one "Edison dollar" to equal 40 kilowatt hours. General Motors' Charles Franklin Kettering (see p. 55) cried: "We haven't 'overproduction' so bad as you think-every one of you wants a great many things he hasn't yet. But there really is 'under-circulation.' We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar...