SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28397, 2 October 1957, Page 15

SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH

Greece And U.S. Co-operation

(By a Reuter Correspondent)

The University of Salonica and the University of Wisconsin will! co-operate in October in research into solar energy.. Professor Constantine Kavassiades, former President of the University of Salonica, a member of the Greek Atomic Energy Commission and a professor of nuclear chemistry said that solar energy held unlimited possibilities for mankind.

“In spite of wonderfully generous help from the United States in building dams, we are already running short of hydro-electric power,” Professor Kavassiades said. “We must have nuclear energy as the source of power for the immediate future. But I believe that one day nuclear power will, in turn, be replaced by solar power.” Professor Kavassiades said that Greece was acquiring an experimental nuclear reactor in the United States to be installed in the new' “Democritus” nuclear centre near Athens in May.

Moles Battle For Airfield.— Moles are putting up a stiff struggle for control of the airfield at Youngsfield, Wynberg, 10 miles from Cape Town. Traps, poison, and even attacks by the staff armed with spades and sticks have failed to stop the moles daily pushing up their hills of earth on the airfield.