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ABSTRACT In these days when the world is talking of power from fissionable, matter, one is apt to forget the inexhaustible nature of hydro-power. Hydro-power remains the only source of solar
energy in which Nature herself seems prepared to undertake the tedious task of concentration; but the civil engineerings works—dams, intakes, pipe-lines, canals and power-stations—are
themselves engineering works of major importance. It already plays an important part in the industrial economy of the United States of America, where nearly half the potential sources are
already tapped. Similar developments are impossible in Great Britain; catchment areas are too small, or they are too near sea-level. As our power-consuming processes expand, it is inevitable
that they must be moved to areas where power now flows unharnessed. Except for the United States, only a tiny fraction of world-power is at present utilized; much is, of course, in places
remote from industrial regions, but half the world is now within one-day journey, and fear of isolation need no longer deter labour from migration. It seems that big fields are open to those
specializing in the design and construction of hydro-plant, and that a subsequent export trade of considerable magnitude would accrue to the country responsible for building the plant.
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