The morning times., 1896-11-08
Power Direct from SUNSHINE.
sion by copper wires would be far more
practicable.

sion By copper wires would be far more
practicable.
PROBABILITIES IN THE NORTH
Although the greatest possibilities In
the way OF changing sunshine into
power exist in the dry and sunny South,
there are great possibilities, even In tn.
latitude Of New York and Chicago. Sup
pose, for The sake of argument, that there
Is an average of clear. direct sunshine OF
only one hour day the year through Thai
would be 800 hours, or thirty working days
tholidays not countedl ana u square mile Of
territory would therefore produce the equiv
alent OF more than three millions of horse.
power for one month.
1hlS power, however, would be furnished
internationally. There would be days aud
days when The entire three million odd horse
power would be developed, and other days,
aud sometimes weeks, when hardly any
power at all would be available. 1t is
because OF this that 10 plan for making
power out of sunshine is yet commercially
profitable. When there is plenty of sun
shine power would DE wasted i'll great guam
Titles, when there is no sunshine there would
be no power at all.
But To give perfect storage battery,
so that the power made on bright days
could be packed away for use at night
and on sunless days the power produced
to 40O, 900 horsepower amount used
by New York for all purposes. for every
DAY during seven months and halr. And
Two square miles of the Jersey marshes, Just
across the North River from the big city.
aud AT present unused for any purpose what
ever, II fitted up with big sunshine -condens-
ing apparatus, would give power enough to
keep all The wheels orNcw York and Brook
Ign, too, for that matter, a-whirling the
Whole wear thrgupn Similar
exist in the neighbOrhood of nearly every
big city. Such plan would have TO be
carried out by great corporation or by
the government. municipal State or ma.
tional. since private means would he in
adequate. But II would seem 10 be quite
feasible for The owner OF a factory to have
great reflector on the roof of his shop, and
collect what power he needs in that way,
producing more than he wants in the long.
hot days Of summer. and storing il. glcctri-
Cally iuruSe in the winter and in rainy fcggy
weather.
ELECTRICITY WITHOUT STEAM.
With ro gard 70 hr storage battery, nearly
or quite perfect form OF which, it has
Teen seen, Is essential tn the carrying out
uf Such Il scheme. Sir. Edison said today:
Except for light power uses. electric
storage rs not yet n commercial success
the storage battery of today Is heavy.
awkward Ia handle. and expensive IL
wears uut too quickly and costs 100 much
tu reL-.w, and until some new thing j. found
out at-pul lt electric ,iuutg. will not cone
iHto 8 neral use. There Is no reason to
doubt, however, that electric ctorac. Will
eventually be brought TO approximate per-
lection, ami when that Is done a great step
forward VIII have been taken. Thruretlcai-
ly. IL ought not Ia be impossible to store
any quantity of electric energy, nor TO
transmit II illlultably. But electricity IS
m evasiye, sgb,!e thing. especially w..,n I
you get IL Ia great quantity and Of high ten |
don You can never tell when IL is going |