ELECTRICITY FROM SUNLIGHT
J An interesting suggestion about Iho "Hower of To-morrow" is made by a writer in the Brit'sh "Nineteenth Century." The writer looks forward cheerfully to the day when all our electric power stations will be useless except for museum purposes. Noting that electricity is akin to light, ho points out that all that is necessary is ito find some way of overcoming the disparity'iu wave-length between the two. Admitting that there are extraordinary difficulties in tho way, he thinks that tlu-y may eventually be. overcome and that wo shall derive pur electricity direct from sunlight. When that takes place, industrial supremacy will be transferred to tropical countries. Meanwhile Sir Charles Parsons, tho famous turbine, inventor, has renewed his suggestion of finding unlimited sources of power from tho heat of the earth by digging a holo eighty-odd miles • e'eep. Britisn scientific imagination is clearly in a very active condition.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 7
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151ELECTRICITY FROM SUNLIGHT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 7
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