TIDES FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1907, Page 5

TIDES FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES.

H.M.i Corisiil-Generalat Hamburg (Sir. . that, a company, has recently' been formed thoro.which-claims that it :is about ,to: put for the first.time-to practical use a.',systems.by-imeans. of-•which-'t-He force of , the;.,tides, < may .bo made available foiv industrial 1 purposes.-" The company! in question -lias -acquired about eighty-six ncros of land'in the,vicinity of Ouxhavon,' where a> 'power station is to be erected for'the' pro-' ductioiv and transmission'of olcctrical power tj factories; engaged'in! tlie manufacture of ice, of liquid air,'and of substitutes'for nitrate. Tlie company proposes to stipply ; power for 'electric light, 'oto.y ill Cuxhaven and' neighbourhood at t-hb' rato- of about 2}d: to 3?, d. per kilowatt' -por' hour: • An interesting motlo of'-utilising the-force of the tide is described--in the '-'Cologne Gazette" of Augusts. It bcc'anie necessary to'take down the three-span'masbriry bridge which spans tho Zollkanal- at Hamburg, and for this 'purpose two powerful iron' pontoons were moored and wedged bincatit' two. of the spans,at low tide, and as the tide rose the force was'sufficient to -lift- the arches from >ueir bearings' and tended to, destroy the third arch in the sanie to cause the stoiiowork 'to collapse.'" 'It is inway. '"'V'..