HARNESSING OLD SOL.
SOMETHING TO RIVAL WAIKAREMOANA.
(Received 7. 8.20 a.m.) London, Mar. 6.
Sir J. W. Thomson, Professor of Physics in the Royal Institution, states that the sun transmits power •»n a clear day equivalent to seven thousand horse-power to the acre, which, if harnessed, would provide all the power required for the. world's work, obtained at the cost of lowering the temperature by a degree or two. The suggestion that radio activity causes the sun’s energy Prof. Thomson regards as U'- It s-. because the life bf radium G insignificantly short and only trnablv by Helmholtz's hypothesis, which trains the energy of the sun to a shrinking within itself to the extent of about 200 ft a year.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 72, 7 March 1911, Page 1
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