Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1914 — Small Power From Sunshine. [ARTICLE]

Small Power From Sunshine.

According to a paper read before the British Society of Engineers, the sun-power plant erected by Frank Shuman, in Egypt, covers seven-eighths of an acre of ground and produces only 18.1 hone-power. The Engineering News remarks that this is scientiflcally worth while, but commercially is ■about on a plane with entesetlng ssrv shine from cucumbers.