Show Nothing New in Idea of Power From Ocean So far as the tho dispatches Indicate n a power lowr lower machine that has been set not setup It tip up by Georges ls l's Claude at nt Matanzas Ma Ma- tannin Cuba with Its lis gigantic pipe for bringing up till cold cohl water from the of the son sen dots does not Involve any principles unknown to science It was shown sho long ago ngo that water If It confined In n a vacuum will give ITe oil oft steam at nt temperatures far below Its Us ordinary boiling point and also that cold Old water will condense the tho st steam m mand and restore the tale vacuum So go that Claude takes tage tuge of this and us uses s warm water from the surface to produce the steam and cold coM water from the tho bottom bottom bot bot- tom to condense ond lIso It again ho lie Is not exactly an Innovator The main question then Is whether his Invention invention Imen tion Uon Is commercially Important andon andon and on this one would like to have more opinion formed after thorough thorough thor thor- ough observation on the spot pot According According Ac Ae- cording to the dispatches the apparatus appa appa- I rates ratus generated enough power to light 40 co WO watt bulbs but whether this power r was In excess of or the power lowEr needed to pump cold ohl water up from the bottom Is not staled and It Is Isa Isa isa a very vital point To the layman the whole device looks like ilkI n n. second cousin to n n. perpetual per per- motion machine and therefore therefore therefore there there- fore not very promising but this objection ob ob- was raised to the locomotive the steamboat and the Airplane wh when n they were In the experimental stage That any of these could possibly curry carry enough fuel to propel Itself was lIS held l to be a prima facie absurdity absurdity absurd absurd- ity yet they did Old propel Ih themselves and at nt a n pretty ll lively ely clip The very vry l least that can be he said Bald for Professor Claude Is that he has hns tackled a project act that men hac lave often orten speculated about and brought It to a point where Its possibilities can cnn be definitely determined It may prove to tobe tobe tobe be as Impractical as schemes to uti Hie lIze the latent Intent pow power r of the tides Hut It may eventually be lighting oar our cities |