LIGHT FROM WIND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1723, 30 November 1887, Page 3

LIGHT FROM WIND.

Under this beading the Paris correspondent of the '* Times " telegraphed aa follows :— " Experiments are being made at Cape de la tlave, near the mouth of the Seine, on the production of electrioliy fur lighthouse purposes by moans of the force obtained by windmills. The suggestion to do so was made by the Duo de Feltre, and it is a system proposed by him that is to bo tested. The wind works a dynamo-electric machine employed m oharging accumulators of suitable copaci'y. The electricity so produced and stored is to be used at will to make a fooas light. The system, if successful, will have tho advantage of costing only the putting up of tliß machine'y. Tho whole question to be ascertained, la whether a außlaioat quantity of electricity can be stored to provide for the requirements of any poonlhr station when there is no wind to move the sails of tho mill. M. de I'Angloßeaumanoir, a civil engineer at Paris, has been authorised by tho Minister of Pubilo Works to make, at the expense of that department, the trial of thia system of eleefcrio lighting at. at the la Hove Ighrhoase. The experiments will m no wny endanger or Inconvenience navigation as tho present machines are at hand to be used should the new system fail to work . " The old idea has been tried rmny times, and once again «re opine it is doomed to failure, — " Electrical Review."