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AN interesting comparison is made by Mr. H. E. M. Kensit in World Power of November of the comparative progress made in electricity production by Great Britain, Canada and the United States. The diagrams of electricity production during the past ten years prove that while both the United States and Canada show actual retrogression in consumption during the period 1929-32 of the world-wide depression in industry, Britain made continuous progress throughout it. The average annual progress of Britain over the last ten years has been greater than in either of the other countries. In total production also, Britain is gaining. The conditions affecting the comparison in the three countries are not quite the same. The United States includes in its records of consumption a considerable amount of power generated in Canada and imported. It also includes that portion of the power generated by private manufacturers which is sold by them. Corresponding amounts do not appear in the British items. For the last ten years the average progress in Britain is 10 per cent. in Canada 8-5 and in the United States 4-5. The total outputs in 1934 for the three countries are 17,000, 21,000 and 91,000 million kilowatt hours respectively. The good showing on the British side is attributed by the Americans to British Government enterprise and to the energy and able administration of the Electricity Commissioners. In Canada, owing to the abundance of cheap water-power, about 30 per cent of the total power is exported or used for operating steam electric boilers in connexion with pulp and paper mills.
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Electricity Production in North America and Great Britain. Nature 137, 145 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137145d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137145d0