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Pollution Control:
"I was told by the chief engineer of Combustion Engineering that the apparatus for precipitating all of the fumes, particularly the sulfur which makes the public utilities the worst urban sky polluters, was in complete mechanical solution. I asked what the additional cost per kilowatt hour would be if the apparatus were installed. The answer was 25 percent additional.
"On speaking to the Edison Electric utility managers I pointed this out and was told by them that the chief customers were industries and that the industries only buy from them because the public utilities can provide power at only a fraction less than it would cost the companies to produce their own. Therefore, if they did add the 25 percent, the public would gladly pay but their prime customers would forsake them; ergo, they could not do so.
“The sulfur coming out of all the world’s chimneys annually exactly equals what we are taking out of the Earth annually to supply industry’s rubber making and other such needs. Vast amounts of energy, knowledge, and skill are expended in the progressive stages of separating out and refining metals from”
