The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-12
SOLAR POWER.

p.o,o.aI,, in All Seriousness, to Yoke
ps,phus to Mans Many Devices, and TO
wake Him Turn Desert into a Populous
Eden.
The San Francisco Evening Bulletin in a
,soent issue says; From time immemorial
attempts have been made TO utilize the d.
-sr, -avs of the sun as motor tor indus.
,,sl purposes. During the last ten years
,on,,ierable progress has been made by NJ.
Nrchot, a professor in the lyceum at Tours
r,snce. which has arrested the attention of
,be French and Algerian governments and
scentihc societies, and Muohot has re-
ce,vei from these high authorities golden
medals. the. decoration ofe the Legion of
Honor and subscriptions aggregating nearly
$4,000 francs.
a company with large capital has lust
hsan formed in Paris for the purpose of
manufacturing the solar machines invented
hv Professor Muchot, and over 100 of the
various applications are IN actual use in diff
isreu, parts OF the world, pumping water,
cooking food running small agricultural ma.
chipes, etc. The apparatus consists OF
eonica reflector IL feet in diameter, from
which the solar rays are reflected upon
hO..gN kuItt lCtt Au0 clANSSA iuSutS III
diameter outside, enclosed in glass cover,
and placed vertically in the axis OF the re-
hector. A battery of four such machines,i it
4 claimed, gives three-horse power, the
price of which is, at the shop in Paris, To-
DO francs, or $1,000.
Since our attention was called to the ma
chimes in France the information comes
that company composed OF some OF the
hest mechanics and engineers Of California
has been incorporated for the purpose of
purchasing American patents for utilizing
solar heat for industrial purposes, such as
Pumping water for irrigating and reclaim
ing lands, propelling all kinds of machinery,
furnishing steam and hot water for can
neries, cooking food, the manufacture of
boray, distilling alcohol, drying fruit the
sub.mation of sulphur and the roasting of
ores
An examination of the American patents
and Of the plans of the California company
shows that the old style Of conical reflectors
and vertical boilers has been abandoned,
and that the new apparatus, which the
company has already commenced TO con-
struct, consists essentially III reflector,
cylindrical in form, having a parabolic
cross-seCtiOn, and being straight in longi-
tudnal direction, in combination with
cylindrical heat receiver, or boiler, mounted
on the axis Of and parallel to the reflector,
both reflector and boiler being placed hori-
z0utaly, or nearly so, and being provided
with suitable devices for setting the ma
chine in the proper position and causing it
to follow the suns apparent movement
1t is confidently expected that fully five
horse power will be realized from a. N. to
SPIN. 1t has been found that occasional
passing clouds have no perceptible
that the sun generates immense
quantities of heat. 1t has been
demonstrated by Ericsson, Muchot and
other scientists that the heat of the sun, az
ter absorption by our atmosphere, repre-
sents rather over one-horsc power Der
square yard, and that we get more heat
other things being equaD on day in win
ter than in summer, tor the sun is nearest
10 It's in our northern winter by several mil
lions OF miles,
There are millions of acres of the finest
land in the world in the San Joaquin and
other valleys of California and Arizona,
which land only needs to be "tickied with
water TO make it laugh with the harvest.
Only small part of this land can be irri-
gated by the usual methods, but water ex-
1878 in inexhaustiblc quantities in most
loalities at from ten to 100 feet from the
suliaVe' ny urlNluR humber OF tuOe
wells, say fifteen feet apart, and coupling
them together at the tops and applying a
sun engine, supply of water
can be obtained for irrigation
aud for cattle which would raise the value
Of the land from 50 to s., its present price,
% $50 and $50 per acre, and fill these val.
ieys with prosperous and happy popula.
tlOa. This is phase of the solar engine
business which should commend itself to
the owners of the large ranches in the inte-
nor valleys, where the conditions are most
favorable for the development of this enter
prise We are not unmindful OF the obiec-
lion that the solar rays are sometimes in
'erFupted by clouds, and that at best such
sn engine would be available only in the
daytime; but we answer that in Summer
tine, during our rainless season, when their
aeed would be greatest, the sky is seldom
oDscured by clouds, and the power of the
engine could be used for COMPRISING air or
generating electricity, which might be
stored, and the electricity or compressed air
would serve to run the machinery in the
night, In this way the cities on the plans
SHOULD also be lighted by electricity at a
minimum cost.
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gesllon, want Of appetite, loss of strength,
lack OIL energy, malaria intermittent fevers,
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