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THE paper on “Hydro-Electric Development in Great Britain”, read at a meeting of the Institution of Electrical Engineers on November 8 by Messrs. A. S. Valentine and E. M. Bergstrom, dealt more particularly, as indicated by its sub-title, with the works of the Grampian Electricity Supply Co., but it contained an interesting summary of the present situation of hydro-electrical development in the country. It is well known, of course, that the water-power resources of Great Britain do not compare in extent with those of some other countries, but, on the other hand, there are abundant supplies of coal, and by reason of this cheap and adequate supply of fuel for steam-power plants, water-power developments here do not present the same attraction as they do in countries lacking carboniferous deposits but possessing abundant water resources.
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British Hydro-Electric Development. Nature 134, 1016–1017 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/1341016a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1341016a0