Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — Gas. [ARTICLE]

Gas.

The distances, often many miles, through which gas is transmitted before it issues are such that with any other mode of distributing power they would, says the Engineer, considerably enhance the eost of the power. Prof. Osborn Reynolds thus explains this: It takes about 10 cubic feet of gas to develop 1,000,000 pounds in a gas engine, whereas of compressed air in the ordinary way it would require 140 cubic feet to yield the same power. Hence the comparative cost of transmission is the cost of transmitting 10 cubic feet of gas against that of 140 cubic feet Of compressed air, and this would be about as 1 to 25; so as a means of distributing energy gas is 25 times more efficient than compressed air.