ELECTRICITY AT HOME
DEVELOPMENT TOO SLOW
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 6. The president of the engineering section of tho British Association for tlio Advancement of Science advocated at Aberdeen a scheme for cheapening electric current by establishing pit-head generating stations, to use ■ waste and low-grade coal, in conjunction with the grid system. , . In fields of domestic heating and the electrification- of railways development, he said, had been too slow, and in the domestic field the potential' demand was enormous, as the consumption of domestic coal in Britain was about 40,000;000 tons annually, or three times the amount at present used' in electric supply for all purpose!.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 9
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107ELECTRICITY AT HOME Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 9
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