¶ Afford (1)
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Afford:
“I’ve been fighting-- many of us have-- to stop sulphur going into the sky. The Edison electric generating stations all around the country are bad culprits about this. As you fly over the different cities you see smog and you look where it comes from and a dozen chimneys provide the whole darn thing, primarily Edison chimneys. I was the speaker three weeks ago in Hartford at the National Edison Institute of America, all the executives… The host was one of the large engineering manufacturers of boiler equipment. And while talking with engineers and research men I found that the equipment exists and is highly perfected to take all the sulphur out. The cost it would add to the production of electricity would be only thirty percent and you’d have no fumes in the sky.”
“Thirty percent?”
"Yes, practically nothing.
“Isn’t that kind of high?” I ask.
Fuller has been looking out toward the bay. But at this he snaps around, claps his hands together sharply, and glares at me."
¶ Citations
- Rasa Gustaitis in WHOLLY ROUND (HR&J,NY) p.154, Feb’73
