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SPEAKING OF POWER Co of Calif. and seven by the Barest of Mines acting for the Navy. lion, Pacific Oil Co, a Standard OU-'ei Calif, subsidiary, is carrying otn ' logical and assay work. All coreV Note to power engineers: Don't build that new plant too dote to an airport A new law jives the Civil Aeronautics' Administration broad powers, including condemnation authority, to prevent any construction near airfields which it con* aiders a hosard to (lying safety. At this writing, Brnddock Light & Power Co is bumping against this new angle. For tbe new 160,000-kw generating station under construction at Alexandria, Vo., plans call for J93-ft stacks. CAA says they would produce an "obstruction to air navigation" at Washington's Na tional Airport more than a mile and a half away, wants them cut down to 162 ft. City ofiiciala of Alexandria, which has a comprehensive anti-smoke ordi off the line temporarily and there was no shortage of power for those'in a position to use it. ** R S Clark's verse about the fiendish propensities of the checker (Speaking of Power, May) drew the following rhymed rebuttal from I E- Herman of Melbourne, Australia: The Chteker's lift, some people my. h sheer delight in ev'ry way. His work is easy end so free No sweat, no toil, just testful j/ee. Rut lets be fair and free from pride Come on, look from the other side. ing and other exploration by ptfr companies will'be carried out on 'p erlies they hold In the area. Gov ment-sponsored drilling wiU be Naval Shale Oil Reservation No.' Keep an eye on this development has interesting possibilities. In dl|sion of synthetic fuels, shale oil hi ceived relatively little attention/ though difficult to refine into sorae^p ucto, it makes a good burner fuel^T cations are that it can be produced piped to the West Coast at not toblhjgjl o cost. With an increasingly Ugbufei situation there, shale oil may betfijS substitute fuel to ochieve accepuSg nance, say stacks that low would violate the ordinance, cause smoke ond soot to pour, over the city. All of which leaves Braddock right in the middle. 1 Generating facilities of the U. S. must be increased 80% in the next ten years, says Tomlinson Fort, manager of central station sales for Westinghouse. He forecasts a rise in electric power sold from 217 billion kwhr In 1947 to 374 billion in 1957. Basing his figures -on Westinghouse planning studies, Fort credits heavy industry with 80 billion cl the increase, pointa to potential gains in domestic, rural and commercial toads as wall. Keeping pace with such growth would' require that power companies spend in ten years an.amount of money equivalent to the total now invested in all II. S. privately owned utilities. '* Back from a 10,000-mile editorial trip which took him, entirely by air, from Seattle down the Coast to Son Diego, then on to Mexico City and back through Texas and Oklahoma.Associate Editor Ben Skrotxki says that nowhero did he find power in ample supply,' everywhere he found tremendous efforts being made to build for today's de mands and the much bigger,loads that most engineers expect for the future, fn Portland at the time of the Good, he noted a wry sort of compensation--* although Good waters drastically re duced output of key hydro plants, the. 1 some waters took many industrial plants Any drawing fresh from its campletien Looks rather nice, above suspicion. Layouts stem right, lettering's fine figures in row, arrows in Una. Thus it's thrown in the Checker'j lap "Here's your baby `let's hear you yap!" From under oil the outward glamor Like sore thumb sticks out the error. His pencil scars the drawings beauty He can's help it, that's hit duty. Marking all mistakes with horror, The print toon goes Technicolor, IFhen that is done, then comes the lest: To face the Spirit of Protest. Faults, though tactfully presented. More than likely are resented. The Checker's ways can't bp the lame, He has to stand it, that's ike game. To err is human, so they say; Soma are too human In that Way, Though he knows miracles don't ex ist. The Checker stays an optimist. He hopes that tome day he will meet A lovely, perfect, faultless sheet,' And find a man (if that's not too much) IFho admits his faults and bears no grudge. Industry aod government have joined forces informally in a coordinated pro gram of exploratory drilling and assay work in the Western Colorado shale-oil fields. At least 11 core-drill holes will be sunk this year In the Green River formation--said to be the world's largest single mineral deposit Four or more holes ore planned by Union Oil Enthusiasts of the old iron -.hgtK wiped a quiet tear one day thiistjnjna when the last iteam locomotive lefttSs Schenectady shops of American motive Co, now to be devoted IQMfJjj manufacture of dleael-eleciries. .iSj railroaders took some comfort Irtfro fact that a good shore of AlcoYit] locomotive facilities will be balled" to meet any future demsj A Houdry-process gas turbtottf destined for lend-lease to RussiaST obtained from WAA by Bumj^ Mines, has been made avsiuhlg BCR's Locomotive Development*^ millee for. experimentation witnf verited fuel at the Dunkirk plf American Locomotive Co. A; smaller unit will be used in the.j^ underground coal gasification ment at Gorges, Ala. THIS MONTH'S C0V?| Keeping the kilowatts Marioi!. the job of maintenance crv*ga power plants all over the eoup"^ There's no glamor In it-- at in cold blood. It's r nu''W hard work, alien dene at odd bf. and under trying condition*-*'! no plant--large or imatl, R<tjjS| old--It ony better than It* y5p nance, and like al) necettary 'J*J ihit one has its real satlsfaflf^ This month'# cover--wropto iron tube* going Into the air brew, of a central-station boiler-- lh Job and the men who do jW 94 ($48) POWER,* Sept*"'?. 1 Stripping off convos jacket, covering 2.irt.-thlck sections, at Woterslda genorotlng Motion of Consolidated Edison 46 of 859b mogneslo insulation opplled to a piping insulation years ago, showed thot iniulotion sections were herd and firm Insulation Holds up 46 Years Edison Co, New York has a heav modernisation program under way. Ii the course of this program magnesia fa nlation first applied 46 years ago hat he pulled off older equipment, elatei to be scrapped. Upon removal of the canvas jacket laialallon surface. Fig. I, 2, and 3 howed hard and firm. Sections remove' touJd be handled easily and gave Huh apparent Indication of dimensions -logs In blocks from shrinkage oi *i*ping over the years. *{* taaulatlon, Fig. 1 and 9, 2 in ^ on pipelines operating a I * 24 hr a day, 365 days a year , ** 7r- Sections were laboratory tod to determine thermal conductlv Mroplea. They tested 0.52 a a Mn temperature. This is ii dul!r?*nt wIt** l*,e known fact that con { aiat*** Product at the begin ** bjT the century ran aomewha v**rag l^8tl to-day's 0-45 conductivity :f*u 1 Saptsmbsr 1948 Blocks of 859b mogneslo, cut from stendord sixes ond applied to grldded sur face of feedwoter hooter 46 years ago, show no apparent shrlnkog* or worpoge (549) 95