The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-11

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PARIS. Dec 3o.-The water power
g the Alps. the Pyrenees and the cen
ual mountainous region Is playing 4
- role In the military effort Of
France and VIII have IN even greater
eoAro N the 4fter-war economic strug-
90.
Many new hydraulic power plants.
born Of the war needs. are turning out
shells. chemicals and other necesst-
d. tor the army. Many others, born
q the coal famine and it's lessons win
replace steam power after the var,
France utilized Is per cent of its
total estimated natural water power
n 1914. She was utilizing more than
q per cent In July OF this year and
the proportion is every day increasing.
Competent engineers tx at 1900 900
horsepower the energy France could
secure from its waterfalls at low va
ter. while $780, 900 horsepower is the
estimate Tor average seasons. The
total steam energy used In France be-
lofe the war was only about $500, 900
horsepower divided among $4,000 es-
tAblishments.
The waterpower of the Alps has
gwen the name Of the Value OF Alum
mum" to the Valley Of the Arc, where
$4,000 horsepower is used transform
ING 4lum1ne into aluminium bars. La
komanche in the wild valley from
bourg d'Oisons to Point de Claix is
the valley Of carburet and metallic
alloys. absorbing $1,000 horsepower.
Electric steel plants are concentrating
IN the basin OF the Arly where one CON
| q 10<1
electric furnaces run by turbines Of
$4,000 horsepower Seven important
new plants are being built in the re-
gion of Grenoble.
In the valley of the Durance new
plants aggregating $4,000 horsepower
Tor the electrO-chemical industry are
under way. while above Nodane one
or the biggest chemical works in
france has acquired rights to about
10000 horsepower of waterfall that
will be utilized speedily.
Hydraulic electrical plants in CEN
trail France have saved the family rib
Don industry Of Saint Etienne. The
little home shops had begun to dis
appear-unable to compete with the
mlils. Electric motors of a quarter
OF horsepower have set this domestic
occupation going again, keeping at
nome men and women who would 9th
erwlse be driven to the looms of the
olg mills. Little motors are used all
through that region for cabinet max
ing. Had they not existed before the
war II would be necessary to invent
them or something equivalent for the
use of manned soldiers.
Inc electric motor is counted unon
10 solve the problem OF farm helm in
regions accessible to current. Coon
eratlve societies are being formed to
ouy current for distribution among
the members: the installation of al
power station being considered bv one
OF them. A law to encourage and holm
such projects is now being Considered
in the chamber.
Electric energy for Paris brought
from the Alps is the most ambitions
project for the future. A dam IS wards
nlgn IN the Rhone at Genissiat back
ing the water up IA miles to the Swiss
frontier. will furnish a fall suf1icien,
70 operate a power station Of 1885, !;
horsepower and 24O.OoO kilowatts. The |
energy IS TO be transported to Paris /
IN the form OF an alternating current t
under tension of 10000 volts The |
ihe OF transmission will be 312 miles |
long
One hundred and twenty million /
francs is the estimated outlay-tba /
cost of about a day and a half of war
to France.
ms enterprise would alone econo- /
mlze 100000 tons of the 20 million
tons OF coal France imported annually /
before the war. Engineers figure thar 4
current brought from the Swiss !:
frontier may be sold with sufficient
profit in Paris at centimes a kilowa1-
hour, an economy OF about 80 ner