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Show ilKr'oR WHEAT. The Colossal Idea of Mr,ivij lias Demonstrated II Sni Mr. Davies of WWren M 1 j o barked on a scheme vf'h W 0 1 III 1 1 10 lossal returns TIo $.i-A tidal energy for electric lk lln'v ways and railways. Thf-J- 1 ' , entirely tew hj? Pr.fT T T""NTY3 '" 000,000; 000 foot pouha.'Of (energy wer,$ wasted each year at Bristol alone. On. tenth part of this energy would, it stated, light the city with electricirjr while one-tenth part of the tidal for . of the Sovern would be sufficient to ii luminate every city in the empire. Sc .' entific men have all agreed that theoni possible mode is to have immense rese I ' voirs, which would fill at high tide ai run out on the ebb into the tidal w:-through w:-through turbines. To thl3 there has t ways been oae disadvantage no invei I '. or could show a greater length of e l cient working power than Eix hot; j ) daily. ; jj Mr. Davies claims, after an immet amount of thought, a deal of expe ment and considerable outlay, to ha ' invented apparatus, by which he ca work turbines from the rise and fall oi the tides every minute during the 24 hours at a saving of 400 per cent over steam engines of similar power. His experiments on a small scale off thei Cheshire coast incline him to believe that it will speedily become an immense commercial success and an affair of national na-tional importance. London Figaro. ' |