COST OF GAS AS COMPARED WITH ELECTRICITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15169, 7 December 1912, Page 5

COST OF GAS AS COMPARED WITH ELECTRICITY.

At a time when all tho necessaries of life are rising in price, demanding economy in tho household expenditure, it is pleasing to note that the price of gas has not been increased. Gas in Auckland is considerably cheaper than in any other town in Now Zealand. It i.i the cheapest illumiriant and heating agent known. As compared with electricity for lighting, gas is less than one-third tho price. ' Take, for instance, 20 200 candle-power electric lamp 3 with electricity at sid per unit, will cost 2a 2id per hour;" the same candle-power with pus at 4h 3d per 1000 c.f. would cost less than Bid. , . The above comparison is based on low pressure gas, but where high pressure gas is available, as it is in some parts of tins City, the comparison is very much greater in favour of gas. For beating the comparison is even more favourable to gas. The following letter from Mr. A. H. Barker, of tho department of heating and ventilating engineering at University College. London, appeared in tho Daily Mail recently:—" If any of your readers arc induced to adopt electrical heating for their houses under the impression that they will thereby get them warmed at a. moderately low cost, this idea will be effectively dispelled when they receive their first bill after the installation of the heaters. There arc many fields in which electrical energy can ho economically employed; but for heating houses by present methods, and j at present prices, or anything liko present prices, it can never he otherwise than extremely expensive. By methods employed in practical use. one unit of electricity, when employed to generate heat, cannot possibly produce more, than 3400 heat units. At 3d per electrical unit, therefore, the cost of electrical heating is 3d for 3400 heat, units." Eighteen cubic feet of gas costing one penny contains three times as many heat units"as ono electrical unit.

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