New-York tribune., 1905-07-16

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necesz-. In our daily lives from
The te TO the troley-car, all
tend -e-g-hen this belief VIII h, II may
be said rather erroneous.
Conn red with what we have learned and
what have done in electrical science,
thar remains unknown and unaCCon-
PHsae- lar the greater. It therefore =
may IF popular interest TO point out
how -.. remains 10 be accomplished IN
ce--a.r directions. and 10 indicate briefly the
Tlce II discovery and invention which
yet the experimentaist and the IN
ver- and which inevitably must become
Z Of great wealth and great benefit 10
On the greatest problems. and one which has
beer lacked again and again, vet apparently
WI Yielding TO large knowledge and high skill,
j. II producing electrical energy without cals-
IN ..a- waste This statement Is not applicable
O. use of waterfalls. for the energy Of falling
IAN be converted into electrical energy with
ght loss But hydraulic developments are
1=ive and. all IN all, form only a small part
.-.r power producing plants
ev far the greater part OF electrical energy IS
-erated IN steam pouer-stations and the process
F.. round4balt and inefficient The energy we wish
~ obtain electricity Is stored up II coal To get
we burn the coal using the heat generated TO
-...iuc- steam and using the steam thus produced
.-ve an engine. The engine then drives the
and the DYNAMO gIves out electrical energy.
must take place al each step. and unfortu-
u one step these losses axe great. Probably
r- e-4ge proportion Of the energy OF the sun
-r I'D coal which Is finally converted into
Ill we desire IS not more than One-tenth OF
rhe Nine-tenths Is lost. Why Is this so?
Sim because Of the method are forced TO use.
o. ararus is highly Perfected-it IS the system
t fault.
..- ny not change the svsteml YOU say We
ha -ea 10 change the system, but have not
Ee -eled What we want 10 do L TO take
coal n into something which may be called
a- and which VIII convert the energy OF the
coal ret.v INTO electrical energy with only slight
.-o.. ae want 20 feed in coal Al one end, draw
e. residue II the other and through properly
-.--...- copper rods obtain supply ot electrical
e 20 a desirable form. The thought viii arise
at - Hly not replace the zInc Of the ordinary
ea battery by coal carbon IN some forrnF
- as been tried repeatedly. Tommasi has
" Edison has tried it. Jacques has tried It,
Al one time that he had solved the
-~ as we know to-day, we are no nearer 10
-Han than we were wears ago. What
learned IS not how 10 do II. but a few methods
" . not dong il. There Is no need TO dwell
ae magnitude Of the problem. Not only
save much If the nine-tenths Of the coal
.ea aut the stations themselves would be
- .-1r-i-r1. The boiler would be replaced by
Hhlle the engine and generator would
'Ha out. Think how greatly this would
-.e -ae cost 0f electrical energy for anv purpose
Hate-er
' nearly equal importance to the problem Of
aa electrical energy directly from coal is
-la- ri improving methods Of illumination.
-HF who have not studied the subject know
~ q hundred units Of energy in our coal less
.-e-t4-t NJ one unit is converted into useful
- fhe lu.1ndescent laur52 This seems bad
-na D. bad though. 10 the credit Of the