Abstract :
THE super-power plan, briefly summarized, provides a means by which a present estimated machine capacity of 17,000,000 horse power — divided 10,000,000 for industrial purposes and 7,000,000 for the railroads — in a region between Boston and Washington and inland from the coast 100 to 150 miles, now operating with a load factor not exceeding 15 per cent, can be lifted to a load factor of greater than 50 per cent and possibly to 60 per cent, and a means by which, conservatively speaking, one ton of coal will do the work of two, and the railroads within the above zone, and those carrying coal into that zone will be relieved of transporting one-half the amount of coal required for power and lighting purposes. In short, the value of machine capacity from a utilization standpoint will be increased three to fourfold, and coal resources for the purposes named conserved twofold.
