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TN his presidential address before the Engineering Section at the recent British Association meeting at Aberdeen on “Sources of Cheap Electric Power”, Prof. F. G. Baily advocates the establish ment of electric generating stations at the pit heads, his contention being that with low-grade coal and ‘waste’ fuel having a calorific value of 10,000 B.Th.U. per lb. available at a cost of five shillings per ton, electricity could be pro duced at one-twentieth of a penny per unit below the cost of production at the most modern steam stations now operating.
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Pit-Head Generation of Electric Power. Nature 134, 558–560 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134558a0
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