Excerpt from Large Electric Power Stations: Their Design and Construction, With Examples of Existing StationsIN recent years the installation and extension of power stations for the supply of electrical energy has progressed very rapidly, and has left little time to those engaged in this class of work to study in detail problems presented by questions of economy in capital outlay and production. It has, on the other hand, become more and more essential to scrutinise very closely the process of transformation of energy from coal to electricity, with the object of reducing fuel consumption and lowering the price at which the electrical energy can be supplied to'consumers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.