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Title: Mastering power production ; the industrial, economic and social problems involved and their solution
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Polakov, Walter N. (Walter Nicholas), 1879-1948
Subjects: Efficiency, Industrial Power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Engineering magazine company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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gof the war. It has been estimated by the Fuel Administration that between10 and 25 per cent of steam coal is at present wasted under theboilers. About 400,000,000 tons of coal in the United States areused to generate power, half of which is used by industry8 andthe other half is consumed by the transportation lines. Reckoningon the basis of only 12.5 per cent of saving unquestionably possiblein every case merely by improved methods of management andoperation of plants, intelligent mastery of power production willrelease for the country at least 50,000,000 tons of coal annually. In primary coal products it represents a loss of about 250,000,-000,000 cubic feet of gas, 500,000 tons of ammonium sulphate, 409 125,000,000 gallons of benzol, and425,000,000 gallons of tar. Interms of cash the 50 million tons wasted in power production alonerepresent a price value of $200,000,000 at the colliery, while themultiple products value of this coal would be probably $1,200,000,000. Gas works/o tons
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Fig. 138.—What Becomes of our Coal—Disposition of the Miners Yearly Output The average yearly output per man employed underground in America isabout 1,000 net tons. The diagram shows the uses to which the 1,000 tons areput, including both anthracite and bituminous coal. Though the application of electricity has made headway, multipleproduction has not yet been considered for general adoption, itsimportance not yet having been grasped. Yet both are the mostimportant economic forces of moulding influence on the presentand future industrial order. The principle of multiple productionas an economic force is bound to cause a revision in popularly 4io accepted ideas of economics. Numerous plans are advocated offer-ing solutions of the industrial power problem. The most radicalsolution involving the principle of multiple production is perhapsthe plan advocated by the British Coal Conservation Committee, ofwhich the following is an abstract:— The sub-committee of the Reconstruction Comm

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