NEW SOURCES OF ENERGY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 8

NEW SOURCES OF ENERGY

POWER EVERYWHERE. BUT DIFFICULT TO HARNESS. At one of the James We.tt: Centonary Memorial meetings recently Sir Oliver Lodge-delivered un interesting lecture on tli/j "Principles of Energy." He said that molecular energy was beginning to show signs ot' exhaustion, as, for instance, such energy as thali supplied by coal, and it w«s for the scientitfc man to pursue his studies in other dictions. The gfeat source of energy in the future, ho ventured to think, would be atomic energy. Of this the supply was inexhaustible; but at present tliey had not discovered tho m?ans to make it accessible. Sir Oliver Lodie made a starliling statement in regard to tho extraordinary power of energy such as emanated from radium, and said it must not bs thought that radium was the only ■ matter which gavo forth atomic energy. Such energy was present in most substances, but was usually latent, and they had not. so far the mean.s of bringing if> into force. There «;re millions of foot tons of energy per ounce in substances which wore n.t present inaccessible. There was enough energy in an ounce of matter to raise the whole, German Fleet ff >:» f!vi» bottom of the sea and Jifli it to the top of a Scottish mountain. He hoped that future investigations jvould lie in this direction. He hoped, however, that the human race would not; discover lioiv to us) this energy until it hud bruins and morality enough to use if p operlv. far if the discovery were made before its time and by the wrung people this vert planet would be unsafe.

The following teachers have been appointed to the'new Maslerton' West School:—Headmaster. .Mr. M. 11. Miller (Wellington, and formerly of Mnsterlon District High School); assistants, Miss Fouhev (Forty-Mile Bush) and Ali-.s Freeman (Malaliiivi School).