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Show ITALY UTILIZES NATURAL RESOURCE Volcanoes Tapped to Run Turbines In the "Valley of Hell," a 20-square-mile area in Tuscany, Italians are harnessing volcanoes to provide electricity for railroads and factories in northern Italy. Two thousand men, living in perhaps the most dangerous land on earth, " are working on the project a vital one because Italy lacks coal. This year they completed the eighth in series of turbine plants that draw their power from 300 natural and man-made steam wells, which sometimes go 1000 feet deep and seldom run dry. By-products of the process are 8,000,000 tons of borax, carbonic acid and other chemicals annually. These photographs, made at the new plant, show how nat-ural nat-ural steam is put to work. 1 1 J n nvr rrrnn i ni' 1 V1""1" '' ew. Lm "f these tenkt , j and converts it into (team 'V"' 1 for turning turbines that ' I provide electric power. ' , Weter ittatf has boon eon. J f densed from natural steem . ' f "d purified, J.- ' v: ..; . rA ; : -W n LIVE STEAM htatt Lm wator thaso tanls 1 and eonvartt it into staam J for turning turbines that provid tloctric power. ; Wattr itsah has been con dansod (rem natural staam r and purified, 1A NEW STEAM WELL h struck, attar a year . " of drilling, with roar heard doien milet away. Now it must be capped end steam drawn off. 1A NEW STEAM WELL h struck, after a yeer ' of drilling, with roar heard doien miles ' ' 1 1 ' away. Now it must be capped end steam drawn off. ' ' , - w.T ' ssjjjjjsMHMieamefaWaa iaMaMaMBMMmEaMBfl. 1 3 WORKING CLOTHES of people who . play with volcanoes must protect them from heat and gas. This man's ready to cap well 4 NEWEST ADDITION to Italy's "Valley of Hell" is this turbine plant at Lerderetto., . Plants generate 32.800,000 kwh of electricity a month, about one-thirty-fifth of the national output. Production has been put on quantity basis only in last half dozen years.1 |