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Show judging from our remarkable mechanical mechan-ical advance In the last century. It seems certain that the time will soon come when every household In every civilized community will enjoy the benefits that can only come from electricity." ELECTRIC CURRENT DUE TO LEAD IN INDUSTRY Multiplication of Charging Stations Will Solve Automobile Auto-mobile Problem SCHENECTADY, K. T.. Feb. 17. Water and . highway transportation, . well aa milwaya. eventually may depend upon electricity for motive power becauaa of Ita greater economy and efficienry, accordlrnjr to Dr. C'harleg P. Pteinmetz, the "wizard of electricity. The famous inventor called attention. atten-tion. In an Interview to the auccesa of the electric drive on American war-ahlpa war-ahlpa and the fact tht thla method of propulsion la being extended to merchant craft. Aa regarda automo-hllea, automo-hllea, he said: SOLUTION OF PROBLEM. , When the gaaoline engine waa first j used for automobiles people protested they would never come Into general use because the fuel was not readily j obtainable. This difficulty waa overcome over-come by the simple process of produc- I Ing more gaaoline and establishing I supplies In every part of the country, i The use of electric automobiles for! touting will grow In Just the ratio that facilities for recharging storage batteries bat-teries are extended." j The use of electric engines for alr-j alr-j planes will never become feasible, be-' be-' cause of the prohibitive weight of the batteries, considering their power as 'compared with the power f gasoline : engines of corresponding weight, he 'said. I COAL NECESSARY. IIr. gteinmeti declared that water-power water-power could never completely replace I coal and petroleum products for generating gen-erating elertrlcity. saying that "if every drop of rain which fulls In the United , States In a year could be transmitted '. directly into power it could not re-' re-' place our present coal consumption." ! lie similarly characterized the use of the sun's rays, tides and the wind for solution of our power problems under present conditions aa "dreams. contending con-tending that the expense of harnessing these elements would far outweight the value of the power derived. Communication with other plan eta by radio waa said by Dr. titelnments to be "possible but not probable." He said a plant of only 100,000 horsepower might be sufficient to send an electric wave to Mars, but that the establishment establish-ment of actual communication would depend not only upon the Martians having instruments to record the waves, but on there being Martians. WASTEFUL USAGE. "We are still very limited In the art i of harnessing energy," he said. "Our! use of coal ahd other fuel Is extremely extreme-ly wasteful. Our progress In this di-i di-i rectlon has raised mankind from be-Mng be-Mng machines to being machine tenders. I We have overgone a corresponding mental growth. What we need we will , make. Our only limitations are the laws j ' of nature. . ".No one can see Into the future. Bat. |