Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Power in Alberta: Water, Coal and Natural Gas
In the foregoing review, attention has been devoted solely to water-power and its utilization.
There is a fairly general popular belief that water-power is inker ently cheaper than steam-power. AS a matter of fact, their relative costs are dependent upon a number of considerations, and, in many instances, steam-power is cheaper than water-power, particularly Since 1914, owing to the altered conditions created by the war.
AS compared with steam-power, water-power has the following advantages.
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