Discussion on “the cost of electricity at the source” (Hobart), New York, February 26, 1914. (see proceedings for March, 1914)

J. W. Lieb, Jr : I am sure that under the conditions obtaining in our larger cities the figure given by the author, of $35 per kilowatt of capacity, will not cover the real estate and buildings of a character to satisfy local conditions. The sum of $35, even if otherwise adequate, which I doubt, would allow the merest shell of a building rather than such a structure as it would be necessary to provide to house a plant of the capacity indicated by the author.