Article May 30, 1903 Issue

Utilizing Nature's Energy

KATHERINE VOSBURG

New York Sun

SWITZERLAND and southern France are now beginning to utilize to a large extent their own great sources of unfailing water power. The mighty snowfields which cover their mountains will never disappear. They send their glaciers down the mountains, and the glaciers begin to melt at the lower altitudes, some of them forming waterfalls of great height, while others tumble in torrential streams to the valleys below.

This water from the glaciers is being more and more utilized every year. The water is diverted into pipes and carried hundreds, or even thousands, of feet below to turn turbine wheels and generate electricity.

Mr. Nason, our consul at Grenoble, says that the use of electrical power thus generated is being extended in all directions. The electrical plant at Grenoble already gives power to the mills there and to the street-car systems.

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