Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 23 | England Looks About for New Power Sources

England Looks I About for New Power Sources Source Prolonged Coal Strikes Cause Alarm and Engineers Hunt for Sub Substitute LONDON Nov 13 United Press Press Alarmed Alarmed at at the the continual dearth of coal the British public is Is c casting ting around for substitutes Alfred J. J Liversedge a well known engineer sums up up Ui the possibilities of the future 1 Coal from China cheap as s dirt brought to E Europe rope in coal clippers resembling the famous tea clippers of an earlier day Cl Chinese coal he declares is close to the surface and is easily MIly mined by the cheapest labor in the world The Th day may come when China will flood the world with coal oal it 1 prices pric's no one can match 2 The huge chalk or of Great areat Britain may be burnt like coal but Jut they leave such an enormous deposit deposit de dc- de- de posit of life of which ony only a trifling amount could could b bo us used d for lor agriculture that chalk is not considered considered con con- practical 3 Dr Diesels Diesel's theory that mankind mankind mankind man man- kind might grow oil bearing plants which could be used lor for fuel 4 Sir Charles Parsons Bt fa famous ta- ta amous a- a Inventor of the Parsons Parson's turbine turbine tur tUr- bine told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that we might get all aU the heat we needed drilling a big hole Into the crust of ot the earth he thought twelve miles would be deep enough 5 Steam from the center center of the earth such as Italy already has 6 Atomic power as s envisaged by Sir Oliver Lodge While the theory seems perfectly sound the mechanical difficulties have thus far pr proved ved insuperable 7 1 The electrical engineer A. A A. A Campbell Swinton has interested scientists with his contention that the magnetic electro-magnetic waves from the sun will some day be converted Into heat just as a portion of them are are now being used In wireless telegraphy 8 Oil OIl but but there Is very little oil oilin oilin in Britain 9 White coal or water vater power This the author regards as practicable ble but says that Great Britain Inthis in inthis inthis this respect as in oil cannot compete compete compete com com- pete with other countries enjoying a more abundant supply 10 Tides Tides here here is the cheapest possible source of power available in Inthe the near future to Great Britain No other country is so fortunately situated as Great Britain in respect respect to tidal power using it It freely and expertly we can once again compete compete com corn pete for tor the markets of ot the world