Show inventors plan to tel utilize ocean water for irrigation bakersfield CALIF legislators in california have suggested that water froiA the pacific ocean might be used to prevent future droughts in bakersfield harry armenta armenia and S C darrah are working on the same problem they mey have visions of distilling ocean water for irrigation by use of the suns rays they are the inventors ot of the solar flash boiler the solar flash boiler uses no fuel except the heat from the sun it cons consists i ats 0 of f curved d a aluminum 1 troughs which trap the sunlight t and reflect fleet the rays into a copper tube containing water smoked previous to installation with a blow torch the copper tube holds the heat it is then sw surrounded rounded with pyrex tubes which provide further insulation the ile aluminum urn troughs darrah said can be fitted with timing machinery which will wid keep them th em slanted toward the sun am the two experimenters claim fo to have llave tested successfully a small scale model of their sun machine the model they reported built up loo pounds of steam pressure under a moderate aft att afternoon emdon sun I 1 |