UTILISING THE SUN'S ENERGY.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13049, 8 March 1911, Page 3

UTILISING THE SUN'S ENERGY.

PROFESSOR THOMSON'S VIEWS I

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London, March 6. Sir Joseph John Thomson, Professor of Physios at the Royal Institution, states that the sun transmits power on a clour day equivalent to 7000 horse power an aero, a.nd if Farncssed all the power required for tho world's work could be obtained at a cost of lowering tho temperature) only a degree or two. The .suggestion that radio-activity is the cause of the sun's energy Professor Thomson regards as useless because the life of radium is insignificantly short. The only tenable hypothesis is Helmholtz's, which traces the energy of the sun to shrinking within itself to .the extent of about '200 feet a year.