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Near the Bay of Plenty on New Zealand's North Island is an uneasy, earth-quaky land full of hot springs, geysers, active volcanoes and puddles of boiling mud. Trying to tap the power of this natural boiler, government engineers have dotted the area with wells, out of which steam pours with a screeching roar that makes jet engines sound like whippoorwills. Last week six of the screaming jets had been harnessed to a turbine and were generating 6,400 kw. of geothermal electricity...
Modern New Zealand geologists have another explanation. In some past age a strip of land 120 miles long and up to 30 miles wide sank below the surrounding land and got cracked up in the process. The trench was later filled partially with silt and volcanic debris, but the cracks did not heal. They still lead down toward molten rock perhaps 30,000 ft. below the surface...
...Zealand's engineers made a close study of the world's only other big geothermal power plant, at Larderello in central Italy. Larderello's steam has been used since 1913 to drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud...
...pour in-from 49 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Some builders did not bother to write; they simply hopped a plane and flew in. The flood of mail increased-from the West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia, British Honduras, Britain, France, Germany and as far away as New Zealand. Bartling does not know when he can get around to answering all the inquiries, but he's glad that he now has pen pals all over the world...
...trip to Australia and New Zealand does not constitute a sabbatical leave," Griswold emphasized. "First of all, sabbaticals are not available to administrative officers. Secondly, 'sabbatical' means once every seven years, and I haven't been on leave from the Harvard Law School for 25 consecutive academic years...