Show HITCHING THE SUN Electric Motors Run by Sun Furnish Light and Power George Gerge Ethelbert Walsh in St Xich Nich Nicholas olas olas Electric power from sunlight appears appers more wonderful than harnessing the streams or wind Yet we know some something something something thing of the vast heat of tho the sun Solar engines engnes for operating pumps have haye been ben in u US use e in different part of the earth erth for several years now and their value in warm climates where the num number number number ber of or days das of o clear sunshine average high must steadily increase c One of the most mit of those that th solar ma machines machines machines chines is located lote near ner Los Angeles to Irrigate fruit land hand lan An automatic stand carrying great get reflectors follows the course cur of the sun as regularly as the best beet telescope ever made and the suns rays mys are thus reflected re te on a 8 central point pint where whee the thc boiler of a small en engine glue gine is located locate Within an hour after surmise su rhe the heat het of oC the sun raises the temperature tem of the water to the bon boll bolling bonIng ing lug point and thus creates retes steam stem and tn tM the pumping machinery begins its Is days work and keeps keep It I up until sundown The power of the sun fun for heating has haR only been ben faintly appreciated by b scion scientists in the past pst but the production prediction is made now that if It all al the coal should hould give out we would soon be able to run much much of our o r machinery from the power of or the tie sun With ith 5 mirrors properly arranged to focus fous the rays rS upon uon one point a temperature of more than a thousand degrees dege has been obtained This almost almo t equals the highest temperature recorded rere by b the electric furnace which Is s considered today the most mot powerful heating ever discovered As there Is no limit to the number of mirrors that t i may mn be bo em employed employed and as the Intensity of or the heat het Increases in in proportion to the tho number of or rays reflected by b the mirrors mirror it Is conceivable that a temperature may ma be obtained in time that will surpass any anything anything thing ever dreamed dreame of or In the thc past last or present Hitching the th sun un to run electric mo motors motors motors tors for furnishing light and power for Cor our homes and factories is the te very latest achievement of or the modern work ork of ot harnessing the elements to do 10 mans work and one square yard of sunshine In the tropics may ma represent on the average one horse hore power Dower |