Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-28
Electricity Salvation Then. Saws
Steinmetz.
Hence importance Of Wnter-pover DC.
velopn,e nt-The SOIL L. Also he.
coming Exhausted-We Must
NEXT Get Fertilizer from
the Atmosphere.

predicts that young men now living will
see the exhaustion of our supply OF an
thra cite. Or. Steinmetz took this look
into the future in a lecture at the Ameri-
can Institute Of Electrical Engineering 80
West Thirty-ninth street. The lecture
was given for the New York Electrical
Trade School. and most of the audience
we're students from that institution. Or.
Stcinmetz's subject was The Future
OF Electricity"
"The time viii come" said the profess
| sor, when We will have no more coal,
and It Is not far in the future. Anthra-
| cite will not last long. many of us who
are here nov will be alive when the last
is gone. Many of us will sec the time
| when there Is only soft coal. Some OF
you may sec the time when soft coal
is exhausted, but probably not. for there
Is a supply Of this even in Greenland's
icy mountains But, nevertheless, We can
see the end, and when We approach il
what are We going to do to keep from
freezing? That seems to he the problem
that the next generation will have to
meet. and ma ybe ourselves. But the
nation also will have to wake up TO the
problem OF the poison that escapes In the
burning Of soft coal. Look out around
P~ittsburR, where We see the pine trees
dying. They have been poisoned. The
evergreen tree. like ourselves. has only
one set Of lung Other trees get a new set
every year. If YOU go through all those
valleys whore me great steel plants are
YOU will find never a pine. 1t may be
even before the soft coal 10 gone that we
may have to drop its use. that We will
wake M to tn ~viciousness Of the prac-
ice OF burning "'
ana "ha' ""eS TINS mean II means
that We must use electrical power. when
we reach 'he 'hu ol the sou coai t"e
only remaining sources that VIII keep us
from freezing are 'he water powers we
are developing the couh'r! 5 water power
now o"t W. gre o"'F "'"N'"s oVe"'
nlhs' IN 'he s'hs'e N-a'e Oh '1assacn"-
setts 'here Is more water power gong
10 waste IMAM Is lo"ho IN Niagara he'-
sell Electricl'F IN the luture VIII nave
10 solve 'he p'"oleih Oh coiIec'"s '"e
water power so" We cohNer' !" ""ere
we ma II mo eI'c'r'''H' W. haN"e |
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peen dreaming ~ t'"nNp' f'hs -N'"sa'as
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'ha'' out 'ne inherent powers Joi"eo w.
se'ner may ieeu ne same sss'e"i' "n"'
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goes 10 waste IN 'ne Sprlhs noooS' iooh
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r,ec, rica, nouer ,s tho or,, means tina,
will combine ME elements -, rho al,
necessary for a fertilizer That nrocess
We are Just reaching M production OF
fertilizer from the air. 1t Is not practi-
cal yet: the cost OF electrical power is
too great. This fertilizer Is produced on,
in Sweden, where electrical power is
extremely cheap, Every year We car
see the necessity of restoring the capita
to the farm. That situation will have
TO be met within our lifetime"
Reforming again IN tho noss,h,,itiss r.
our water SUNNY Dr s,.,rm.,, cold
.We may eet an enormous amourt q,