Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...switchboard was in smithereens, but with the help of portable apparatus they got generators going. They started the pumps, but the Ark was shipping water fast. They even managed to raise a head of steam but soon the gauges fell, the lights dimmed. It was hopeless. Captain Maund gave the final order to abandon ship...
...Steam at the highest pressure in history drives a new turbine near South Bend, Ind., with such efficiency that the private U.S. power industry anticipates a revolution in the production-and, they hope, the politics-of electricity...
...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...
Since the average U.S. turbine now requires two-thirds more coal, the new turbine thus cuts coal consumption 40% below that of average turbines-a saving of 16,000 tons per month (value: over $30,000) and thus giving its owner, Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. the most economical steam power plant...
Developed by General Electric, the new turbine is the best news of many years to forlorn U.S. powermen, who have long felt marked for ultimate liquidation by the. Federal Government. Steam plants, largely privately owned, produce some 72% of U.S. electricity, convert an average of only 30% of coal's energy into current. Hydroelectric plants convert into current 75 to 90% of the energy of falling water.* Therefore the possibilities of increasing power output and lowering costs are far greater for steam generation than for further hydroelectric development...