Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — The Waste of the Wind. [ARTICLE]

The Waste of the Wind.

Everyone who wants a cheap motive force has tried to harness the wind Every child has made a paper propeller or a windmill. But can it be said that the possible uses of the wind have been as arduously Investigate as such recently discovered forces a< steam and electricity and gases? Is 11 not conceivable that the practical uses of the wind are underestimated jusi because they are so familiar? We cannot help thinking that the wind will be more variously employed some day in the same way that proba bly the problem of laying under contribution the great physical fact ol the tides will be solved. One would think that the wind could, be used tot electric lighting, yet there is no practical apparatus for the purpose. True, the wind is variable and occasionally ab&nt; but as electricity can be stored, one might suppose that this was the in which variability did not particularly matter.