CHEAPER ELECTIRCITY

Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 13

CHEAPER ELECTIRCITY

USE OF LOW GRADE COAL SCHEME ADVOCATED FOR BRITAIN (British Official Wirelesi.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September G. The president of the engineering section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science advocated a scheme for cheapening electric current by establishing pithead generating stations, to use waste and low-grade coal, in conjunction with the grid system. In the fields of domestic heating and 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 the electric supply for all purposes.