POWER SCHEME FAILS.
COLLAPSE OF HUGE TUBE GULF STREAM HARNESSING. (Received Jane 28, 10.35 pjil) NEW YORK, June 26. A message from Havana, Cnba, says a diant steel tube by means of which Professor Georges Claude, a French scientist, proposed to endeavour to harness the Gulf Stream for its electrical energy, collapsed and fell into the ocean. When the steel cables snapped like threads the scientist saw the result of three months' hard work and infinite pains demolished. American capital totalling £30.000 was invested in the scheme.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20601, 27 June 1930, Page 13
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