POWER PROBLEM
SOLUTION LIES IN USE OF NATURAL STEAM
O>.A.) WELLINGTON, March 28
Two New Zealand scientists, Messrs J. Healy ‘of the Geographical Survey of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and R. W. Foster of the Auckland Industrial DeA'elopment Laboratories, claim that the utilisation of natural steam from the Dominion’s thermal districts is the solution to the power problems'. A report by the scientists says that drilled Avells in the thermal regions may be regarded as steam pipes, coming away from an underground boiler, and that as some of the hundreds of wells bored in Rotorua in recent years yielded a working pressure of 601 b a square inch from relatively shallow depths, the steam from such wells could be used to generate electricity. They suggested that New Zealand engineers be sent 1o Italy where- there is .large scale generation from natural steam from drilled wells, -or that Italian engineers be temporarily imported .
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 142, 29 March 1948, Page 6
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