The rigidity of solid unimolecular films

✍ Scribed by G.F.S.

• Book ID: 104126923
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1927
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 64 KB
• Volume: 204
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(27)91573-7

✦ Synopsis

Increase in Electricity Used. (U. S. Department of the Interior Press Memorandum. )--The monthly report of the production of electricity by public-utility power plants for May, issued by the Geological Survey, shows a total for the first five months of the year amounting to 32.4 billion kilowatt-hours, or about 9~ per cent. more than the output for the same period in 1926. An estimate based on the output so far this year and on comparable figures for I926 indicates that the total output for 1927 will be in the neighborhood of 8o billion kilowatt-hours. The total for 1926 was 73.8 billion kilowatt-hours.

The effect of the increasing hours of daylight and the rising temperature from the first to the middle of the year on the demand for electricity for light and heat is shown in the decrease in the average daily production of electricity that occurs during this period each year. This year the decrease in the average daily output from January to May was about 3 per cent.; in 1926 the decrease was about 5 per cent. ; in 1925, 6 per cent. The lessening of the decrease