POWER FROM THE WIND

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 117, 13 November 1935, Page 7

POWER FROM THE WIND

Harnessing the wind for power has been successfully carried out in Crimea, Russia, where a giant windmill using a propeller of 100 ft diameter has shown itself capable of generating 100 kilowatts of electricity. The output supplements that of an adjacent steam power plant. As soon as the breeze turns the windmill blades at the required velocity a 220----volt generator within the machineroom at the top of the 80ft tower is automatically cut in, and is cut out again when the wind dies down. Plans have been announced for a similar wind-power plant with ten times the output of the present one. and eventually a network of such stations, with a total capacity of 200.000 kilowatts, is projected.

I earn a living. He felt that some of i those unemployed now would not be1 I reinstated. A vocational counsellor ! !could supply information-that would! be of use. and not only to the younger ! man. Had a vocational bureau been 11 in vogue for some time, some skilled 11 men today would have been saved!! I from unemployment. Even before the ' i depression it was known that there! ] would be an over-supply of marine; | engineers, but there was nobody to ' | advise those in training. In 1925 too ! many teachers were being trained, and . 'even without the depression, with the' I present Government regulations, there, would have been an over-supply. Such ! tilings could be avoided through a I ■ vocational bureau. I I "Is it possible for everyone to be) employed in the job for which he is most suitable?" asked Mr. Kirk. "I admit that the square peg in the square j hole is the ideal, but I realise that the ideal is not always possible owing to I economic conditions, but with a voca- j tional expert in charge of a public! , bureau I think that the ideal would be I nearer." 1