Show Nothing New in Idea of Power From Ocean So far as IlS the dispatches indicate a power machine that has been set setup setup up by Prof Geor Georges es Claude at Ma Matanzas Matanzas Matanzas Cuba with its gigantic pipe for bringing up cold water wlter from the thc bottom of ot the sea does not Involve any principles unknown to science It was shown long ago ngo tint that water ater It f confined In n a vacuum will gl give gRe e off of steam at temperatures far below Its ordinary boiling point and 11 also 0 that cold water hater v ater will condense the steam and restore the vacuum So that when Professor ProCessor Claude takes advantage tape tage of ot this and uses warm harm arm hater lter from rom the surface to produce the steam and cold water wlter from the bot bottom bottom tom to condense it again he is not exactly an nn Innovator The main question then is whether his lIon Is Js commer commercially Important and andon on OD this one voul would like to have more expert opinion formed after thor thor- thorough thorough ough observation on the spot Ac According According According cording to the dispatcher the appa apparatus apparatus ratus generated enough po erto power to light 40 COO 00 watt bulbs but whether this poser PO er was In excess of ot the power needed to pump cold water up from the bottom Is not stated and it Is Isa isa isa a very vital point To the layman the whole device de looks like lilts a second cousin couin to a n per perpetual perpetual motion machine and there there- therefore therefore therefore fore not very promising but tills this ob objection was has raised to the locomotive the steamboat and the airplane when they were In the experimental stage That any of ot these could possibly carry enough fuel tuel to propel Itself was held to be a prima facie absurd absurd- absurdity Sty ity yet they did propel themselves themselves and at nt a pretty lively 1 ey clip The very least that can be said for Professor Claude Is that he has bas tackled a prof proJect project that men ha hn P a often oCten speculated about about and brought it to n a point where its Ite possibilities can be deft def determined It may prove to tobe tobe tobe be as impractical as schemes to uti utilize Ilze the latent PO power er of the tides But It may eventually be lighting our titles cities |