Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-10-31

mates that given quantity of radium will melt its
own weight of ice every hour and continue doing so
till the end of the world again. of his associates
calculates that fixed quantity of radum will throw
out light and heat for 10000OOOo0 years and lose only
one-millionth of its power
Truly here Is a miracle. What is radum?
perpetual notion" says scientist with
speck of 1t run clock till the end of time-or
with larger quantity I'd have permanent horseless
vehicle or with more a power and light station that
needs no fuel and knows no CESSATION day or night
century upon century,
''Radium says another, has to do with life itself"
series of remarkable experiments has proven that
radum will actually develop urchins from uhfe-
undated eggs Again in the case of the larvae Of
moths 1t held life Il. allegiance. permitting few OF the
little worms to live three times as long as others 1t
If a boy of ten should remain as such for
two hundred and fifty years!
VIII radium eventually solve the great problem
of What is life? And then will it teach us how to
proong life, how to cure disease how to actually
renew If not create life?
VIII it help solve that other puzzle, What Is cleo
tricity?-and in doing enormously increase the
scope of this wonderful thing matter force which
ways but about which very little is really known?
Here staggering possibilities. That there exists
a very substantial basis for them all scientists are
agreed. Thus far radium has remained laboratory
substance narrowed in scope by its excessive cost
of production and the danger Involved In handling It,
But with the discovery of large deposits OF pitch
blende-a very probable discovery-and with cheaper
reduction processes may we not expect to find In
radium new source of light and heat, illumna-
tion that needs maintenance, new furnaces and
power plants that need no fuel and have no waste?
The worlds supply of coal will sooner later be
exhausted That is certain. The question is, what
shall then be done for of light, heat and
power?
Would Pipe Up Liquid Fire.
One daring inventor a very successful practical
man. says that he will bore through the earths crust
at some thin point pipe up the liquid fire generate
steam with it, Other solutions. remote in pos
sibty include Harvesting the power of the tides and
the heat energy of the sun
The development of wave and tide motors has
been retarded by the stormy surface conditions OF
the ocean; but, one man points out why not adopt
this pan:-Sink huge platform to a considerable
depth where pressure is mighty factor. and get
power from the tides by utilizing the change of pres
the raft the volume of water above is alter
nately increased and decreased by the tidal flow.
Solar motors already In use for pumping and IT.
rigang purposes principally in California. The solar
machine resembles huge inverted lamp shade The
inside of it Is red with hundreds of mirrors all re-
fecting inward and upon common object, CEN
trally located copper cylinder. Under the dazzling
rays concentrated upon 1t this cylinder CLOVIS like
white arclight and generates the steam power that
moves the pump.
After all is but natural to utilize the suns rays
in this dynamic age Think of the untold power that
Is wasted day by dayi Coal which we now use as
source of and electric energy is nothing more
or less bottled up sunshine stored up throughout
past eras Why procure our mechanical power to-
day direct the burning uminary just as we get
daylight? Why not obtain 1t upon vast scalef
So much, briefly for the future sources OF power
In the meantime it is desirable in every way to save
coal That is possible In number OF ways, partlcu-
larry along lines of maritime transportation
Just recently small launch was run from New