OCEAN POWER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14657, 26 January 1912, Page 6

OCEAN POWER.

8 (To the JSditor "Timaru Herald.'') 1 fc/u 1 ,—Kvi'iyuig U> your tjrredpondou& "'i'liiiuru,'' in your issuo ot tixo Sj 24th infib., I wis'u t>o aay X cannon aeai '•a witii forces in mid-oct-an. The auuu;3 sation that i go iroui wave power to 3 tidal power is unfair. As X have bell fore stated 1 have never deait with l| wave power_ alone. Tiie two g being combined, when thoy reach laud |j will be welcomed and harnessed. X 2 frankly admit my lack of book know--3 ledge -ou this subject, and at one© £| concede all he claims in siipport of his theory, but reserve to the last iota. 5j t-lve facts and results obtained by long |? experience, and bought at a, price too |j painful to state, but which is now jH crowned by success. With the limited £1 funda at my command I have had to j g| mix a little brains with a good - deal SI of muscle. It is this that has con- « sumed the precious time. | H Ido not scoff at the loss of power » Ej in the pipes through, friction, but I 1 h say'where you have a superabundance m energy you can afford to- treat this A loss lifditlj*. For who can look on! great force hourly being dashed j $ against the extension and not. see snf- j ficient for all local requirements and ; £j to spare? I stand to be justified or i 3 condemned by the results of my work a in the immediate future. My pregj position is mnde more painful by 9 the detractions of those who'cannot or p not see a. new and cominc power destined to alter present conditions J supersede present motive powers. It gji soeius to me a fact that the nati-on H neglecting to ..keep (at least abreast fl ot modern advances is doomed to ocm cuny a second or lower olacc in tho ga scale of nations, a fate X never wish H tr> see befall our Enrnire.—l an* it"