Ontario Community Newspapers

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 20 Mar 1928, p. 1

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\ \)eanq, Y\gvg\,\ *C xk BP -i! [ro F th Hydro Supply From Nor 1 hrough Use of "Boosters" [S L['OfCECa@s by lierguson * s Power for South. Pren:wr Tells Legldalurc Of' It might be, the Premier told the . > House, that with such a system power U ork on Equ'pme"t to Pre-- | from the waters of the North would be 66 * *% | j e j j j j ho : (-- vent Losses of "Juice" From Pn pars.oftiie Drovinge. O 0C A"Ct Tee; ces | _ "Boosting" involves the installation of Long Transmtssmn LMLS | a form of condenser, by which the volt-- snn rmmmmemzneoes |age can be stepped up to replace the leakage and wastage which exists on a S YST EM T O BE U SED Jlong transmission line, according to F. | A. Gaby, Chief Engineer of the Ontario |-- ON --GATINEAU WIRES Hydro--Electric Commission, last night. I ""'The system has not been utilized by | mgammnnecmmmgmms the Hydaro on any of the existing lines," j ; s a said Mr. Gaby, "but will be introduced epeaking in the Legislature yesterday! on the Gatineau line under construction of the power situation in the Province from Fitzroy Harbor, on the Ottawa Premier Ferguson forecast the possibil. River to the Lek?SiCte Statioé'-;h 16b ity of Southern i ilizi Mr. Gaby further informe e Globe power so £ C Gils ablicing the that this new transmission line, which sources of the Northland through \ wiy be 230 miles long, is exceeded in the development of a '"booster" sys-- length by the Niagara Falls--Windsor tem. line, which is 254 miles Iino In conference with engineers he had been told of work on equipment known as "boosters," which enabled the trans-- fer of power for considerable distances without loss from the line. These boosters," somewhat like transformers, lnsltglled every 150 miles or so along & line, were to shoot on the "juice" without loss. 1° . ~SMICE

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