United states power program

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1920
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Volume: 189
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(20)91916-6

✦ Synopsis

United States Power Program. (U. S. Geological Survey Press Bulletin, No. 435, December, I919.)--Under the war demand for fuel conservation the hydraulic engineers of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, served the Fuel Administration in a field study of power problems.

A power survey of the United States was begun, and at the end of the war Secretary of the Interior Lane asked of Congress two appropriations, one of $5o,ooo, for continuing this power survey over the whole United States, and the other of $2oo,ooo, for an extensive survey of the industrial zone of the East, where power requirements are most congested. At present in the central power plants of the country water power carries only about 4o per cent. of the load, while the total fuel requirement for steamgenerated power, including that of the railroads, is not less than