NATURAL STEAM
USE IN NEW ZEALAND SUGGESTED GENERATING OF POWER P.A. WELLINGTON, Mar. 28. Two New Zealand scientists, Mr J. Healy, of- the Geological Survey Division of the Department of Scientific and IndustriaUßesearch, and Mr R. W. Foster, of the Auckland Industrial Development Laboratories, claim that the utilisation of natural steam from the Dominion’s thermal districts is the solution to power problems. A report by these scientists says that drilled wells in thermal regions may he regarded as steam pipes coming away from an underground boiler, and that, as some of the hundreds of wells bored at Rotorua in recent years yielded a working pressure of 601 b to the square inch from relatively shallow depths, steam from such wells could be used to generate electricity. They suggest that New Zealand enginers be sent to Italy, where there is large-scale generation from natural steam from drilled wells, or that Italian, engineers be temporarily imported.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26731, 29 March 1948, Page 4
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