Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1913 — Where Immense Energy Lies. [ARTICLE]

Where Immense Energy Lies.

Talking before the Institution of Electrical Engineers at Glasgow, on the unknown energy contained In the chemical elements and the prospect of making it available, Mr. F. Soddy said that the forces at our disposal compared with those exhibited when an atom suffers change are of a different and lower order of magnitude. Suppose, he said, that a way could be found In which uranium, which disintegrates to the extent of a thousand millionth part annually, could be made to disintegrate completely in the course of a year; then from one gram of uranium 1,000,000,000 caloric could be evolved, which, converted Into electric energy, would suffice to keep a 82 candle-power lamp burning continuously through the year. By the expenditure of about one ton of uranium, costing less than $5,000, more energy would be derived than is Bup-plied-by all the electric supply-stations of London put together.