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...week, Backus expects to earn $125,000 this year. The towels in his Hollywood house are embossed Senor and Senora, his party guests love the lampshade act, and year-round his wife keeps the swimming pool at a decadent 89°. "On cold winter nights," says he, "the steam rising from it causes the place to look like the set of Wuthering Heights...
John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot said last night that he had requested greater office space for non-resident tutors, and the enlarging of some rooms for middle aged Faculty members. He also wishes to move the steam tables out of the Eliot dining room, and create more space in the House office...
...whole trench is conveniently capped by a layer of impermeable siltstone a few hundred feet below the present surface. Beneath it, porous rock accumulates steam like a kind of natural boiler. A well only 1,000 ft. deep taps this reservoir. Some of the steam is "juvenile," coming from water that was trapped in the deep interior when the earth was young and rising upward through the deep faults. The rest derives from surface water that has trickled down through cracks and been turned to steam by heat from below. When the steam gets to the surface, its pressure...
...Zealand's engineers made a close study of the world's only other big geothermal power plant, at Larderello in central Italy. Larderello's steam has been used since 1913 to drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud...
...turbine is only a beginning. Eventually New Zealand plans to get 250,000 kw. of geothermal electricity out of the Wairakei region, and hundreds of square miles of steam land are awaiting exploitation in the neighborhood...