El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-02
Science Is Harvesting the Billiards To
Get Heat and Light for Rural Homes
North Dakota Station Wind Mills Generate Ec
tcity; VIII Revouionize Life Making Country
Little Cost
z J ASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. .
NJ why use ooals At all events.


" J AsHINGToN. D. c. Feb. .
M Why use coai2 At all events.
why should farmers and other
jewellers in rural districts use it,
They can get along without it. suffer-
ing no discomfort for the lack, and
50 help 70 win the war
This has been a hard winter. It has
been particularly hard on the farm
ers. IN the west many Of them have
been obliged TO burn their fences and
outouildings, 10 keep their families
from freezing.
Dreadful But it really WASH
necessary They might more easily
have kept warm by other and cheaper
means. Electricity would have fur
nished them with all the heat they
needed
But. It viii be said. it takes coal
TO make electricity, OF water power
Make Billiards. Produce Heat.
Don't you believe IT, You can make
electricity out Of wind. The farmers
Of the Dakotas could Ike the very
billiards heat their houses if they
chose.
A nonsense idea Believe It not
The department of agriculture gives
iCsfull endorsement. and would be
only too glad to persuade she farmers
of this country 20 accept IL and act
upon it
Concretely expressed. the idea is
represented by q windmill But not
the old fashioned kind OF windmill;
oh. dear mo- IL is what an up TO
date engineer calls a wind turbine
More than strange is II that the
windmill should have remained just
about the same primitive contrivance
for thousands Of years. Nobody seems
to have thought of trying 10 improve
il. But recently inventors took hold
Of the problem and-evOlved the wind
Turbine-itself a simple affair enough
though SCIENTIFIC - which converts
wind power into electricity
Electricity is power 1t is light
It is heat Wind viii make il in
quantity to meet any farmers re
oulrements- with the help of appa-
ratus that is rather remarkably
cheap
Already farmers all over The coun-
try are beginning to take up the idea,
and are substituting wind turbines
for gasoline engines for all sorts Of
uses Wind costs nothing gasoline
is high and going up steadily
Is Harvesting the sun.
II is a NODE OF Harvesting the sun;
for Il is the sun that makes the
winds. The North Dakota agricul-
tural experiment station reckons that
a 10 foot windmill. properly managed
should keep a farmhouse at 20 de-
grees Fahrenheit all winter. even
though the temperature outside were
40 below zero Electric heaters suit
able for the purpose are already on
the market
Incidentally Csays the experiment
station such a windmill should fur
nish enough electricity 10 light the
biggest farm house and illuminate all
the stables and outbuildings of farm
OF 1900 acres. A good sized storage
hot - HIa.HH
viii hold a reserve supply OF current
to last over for period Of ten days
Of MINDLESS weather
For the moment. disregard the
farmer. How about that much over
worked person, his Wife2 Think
what a plentiful supply OF electricity
means to her
Il viii operate her bread mixer. her
potato peeler ana her meat chopper
II Will run her sewing machine and
her vacuum cleaner tt viii freeze
her ice cream Tn the laundry, II
viii heat her flatiron ana drive her
mengle; 1t viii turn her washing ma
chine.
Electricity in cities is too expensive
10 be used for cooking, but the farm
housewife may have it literally TO
burn" Wind is cheap. She can dis
pense with ordinary fuel and employ
the current TO prepare the meals Tor
the family and hired hands There IS
10 EnaL 10 De EdLLlEA- no arLAEa 10 UE
sifteG- Her smOkeless kitchen is one
Of the cleanest rooms in the house
She is freed from the drudgery OF
caring for lamps and lanterns They
are not needed indoors OF outdoors
because the barns and other out
buildings are Illuminated by cleo
tricity controlled from a switchboard
in the farmhouse kitchen The
switchboard is placed in the kitchen
in order that il may be most con-
ventiently accessible. The women
can manage it.
Making Rural Homes Brighter.
There is no reason why. under such
circumstances, the rural home should
not be as brightly and cheerfully
lighted as any city dwelling. This. in
itself, seems new notion. In SUM
mer the farmer may enjoy the luxury
of electric fans. ministering to the
comfort Of tired workers
The gasoline engine hitherto has
been The accustomed source Of cleo
tricitr. It serves the purpose very
vel. But the windmill is wonder
fully cheaper 1t was far cheaper
when gas" costs only = cents a
gallon; at the present price Of gaso-
line there Is no comparison.
The windmill outfit costs about the
same as n gasoline outfit. for a given
power capacity. but the subsequent
expense is trifling relatively See
how il works out Electricity from
wind (as estimated by the North Da-
kota station) costs 8 cents a kiloWatt.
which is about one and a third horse
POWER. Obtained by burning gaso-
line, il costs five times as much.
The wind plant is cheap 20 main
tain. It furnishes power far cheaper
than that obtainable from any other
source OF energy. with the possible
exception Of conveniently situated
water fall. The amount Of power de-
Iivered depends primarily on the size
Of the wind wheel. One with a diam
eter Of 1G feet is big enough for any
farmers use But il depends meas
urably upon the height Of the tower
that supports the wheel II the tower
be so feet high, It will yield so per-
cent more electricity than a tower 20
feet high in the same situation. But
an equivalent advantage may be Sc
silui