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The Phoenix began to uncoil the wire, while David gazed up doubtfully at the shadowy maze of lines and insulators on the cross-arms. "Electricity," said the Phoenix thoughtfully, "is a complicated and profound subject. There are amperes, and there are volts, and there are kilowatt hours. I might also mention positive and negative and ah all that sort of thing. Most profound.
During the warm months, however, a supplementary means of heating water must be at hand. Electric water heating, again, involves the least supervision and is to be recommended if one can get a low enough rate. The initial expense is a sizable item, though; and if operated at the usual rate per kilowatt hour, the monthly charge can easily be double that of other fuels.
"That's only the basic principle of business competition for the good of the consuming public. Competition is the demand, the right of the people," declared Daunt. "I'm a bit skeptical still basing my opinion on your own statements as to common-stock dividends as to the price per kilowatt after competitors shall have been sandbagged according to that legislative measure," drawled the mayor.
"I'm figuring on their generators," he went on in explanation. "Big contract?" asked Walter. "Two thousand kilowatt turbo generator," answered Paul. The other whistled. "Whew! I didn't know they had the cash!" "They haven't," said Paul briefly. "Oh, chattel-mortgage?" surmised the other. "Lease-contract," Paul corrected. "That doesn't have to be recorded." "What's the matter with recording it?"
Teamwork is essential to achieve this objective. The Federal Columbia River power system has grown from two multipurpose dams with a 2.6 million kilowatt capacity to 17 multipurpose projects completed or under construction with an ultimate installed capacity of 8.1 million kilowatts.
We built an enclosed coil, using Morey's principle, and expected to store a few watts of power in it to see how long we could hold it. "Unfortunately, we made the mistake of connecting it to the city power lines, and it cost us a hundred and fifty dollars at a quarter of a cent per kilowatt hour. We blew fuses all over the place. After that, we used the relux plate generator.
If there are no grounded pipes available then you will have to make a good ground which we shall describe presently and lead the ground wire from your receiving set out of the window and down to it. How to Put Up a Good Aerial. While you can use the cheap aerial already described for a small spark-coil sending set you should have a better insulated one for a 1/2 or a 1 kilowatt transformer set.
There are three sizes of transformers of this kind made and they are rated at 1/4, 1/2 and 1 kilowatt, respectively, they deliver a secondary current of 9,000, 11,000 and 25,000 volts, according to size, and cost $16.00, $22.00 and $33.00 when fully mounted; a reduction of $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 is made when they are unmounted.
Do you pay for it by the kilowatt, or how is it measured?" "We ask for so many watts or kilowatts, and it is also measured by the watt hour. But are you serious in asking if we pay for it?" "Why, you surely do not mean it is given away," exclaimed the doctor, "after all the expense connected with producing and transmitting it."
It's going in at ten kilovolts, so that's a five billion kilowatt supply. It's been going for half an hour and has half an hour to run. It takes two tons of matter to charge the coil to capacity, and we're carrying twenty tons of fuel enough for ten charges. We shouldn't need more than three tons if all goes well, but 'all' seldom does. "See that large black cylinder up there?"
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