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SLOWLY but surely the day of the individual, of the private firm, and of the small community is passing or has already passed. The individual has parted with his liberties to the community, rationalisation is putting the private firm out of business, whilst the small town must participate in larger schemes if it is to supply such public utilities as water, gas, and electricity at satisfactory prices. Thus we have a scheme for the national supply of electricity from superpower stations already in being, and there is much talk of the long-distance transmission of gas by trunk lines. These would in the first place serve to interconnect all the existing gas producers in a given area of country, with the result that in time the main load would be supplied from the more economical plants, the others serving as a standby for conditions of peak load. At the same time, the available productive capacity of the whole area would be greater than before, without any additional capital expenditure being required for new plant beyond that of the cost of the trunk lines. All these considerations and advantages closely parallel those which it is hoped to attain in the electrical industry.
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Pipe Lines and Progress. Nature 125, 589–591 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125589a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/125589a0