POWER FROM THE SUN
NATURE'S UNTAPPED RESOUiOES Mr Charles P. Kettering, VicePresident of General Motors Corporation, predicts in a recent article in the current issue of the "The American Engineer," that man "will stop mining coal while it is still in the ground," and soon begin using the sun as a source of energy. "If we keep on friendly terms with the sun we can write our own ticket," he states. He points out that in addition to the power to be derived from the sun, "man is just beginning to mine the sea in a small way." As an example he cited the chemical bro- ' mine, originaily in small demand for photographic work and the eifervescent bromo seltzer, with the whole world producing only about 800,000 pounds per year. "When we needed more bromine badly to make ethyl gasoline we realized that 800,000 pounds would not do us any good because we needed at least *20,000,000 pounds per year. Everyone told us we could not get it. It just was not available. "Now we know," he added, "that there is one pound of bromine in ten tons of sea water. Uast year we t°°k 125,000,000 pounds of bromine out of the sea at Freeport, Texas. There are 320,000,000 cubic miles of sea water. Here is a natural resource we do not use up, because long before it is pumped out, it is running back."
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Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 54, 28 January 1953, Page 2
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