"Harnessing Vulcan"
HE attempt to obtain hydro-electric power from the thermal areas in the Wairakei basin, near Rotorua, is the sort of project likely to tax the imagination of ordinary human beings. The thought of unlimited reserves of high-pressure steam (which here seeps through in the form of natural geysers) being harnessed and piped to turbines and generators to provide electricity for the lights in your living room has something even disquieting about it. However, the team of geologists and technicians now working at Wairakei have things well under control (the photograph on the left shows one of the test bores), and a radio party from Station 1YZ recently went down there and interviewed several of those engaged on the job. The resulting documentary programme, called Harnessing Vulcan, will be broadcast from 1YZ at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, August 30. Prospects of success are said to be promising. Already over a dozen small bores and some large ones are in action, and their working is being carefully studied before the next step is ‘taken in what promises to be a long projectthe establishment of generating equipment which may bring hundreds of thousands of kilowatts into the hydroelectric network of these power-starved islands,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 7
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