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THE preparatory work of the organising committee at Stockholm of the next World Power Conference, which will take place in 1933 in Scandinavia, is proceeding steadily. The first plenary World Power Conference was held in London in 1924, the next in Berlin in 1930. There have also been sectional meetings with special programmes, for example, at Basel in 1926 and London in 1928. The Scandinavian Conference will be such a special meeting, dealing with the energy problems of large industry and transport. Participation and collaboration of fifteen countries outside Scandinavia is assured and more than 170 reports are announced. Some forty reports to be published at the meeting deal with problems of energy supply in large-scale industry, such as combined power and heat supply, the role of large-scale industry in national power schemes, etc. Many of the technical papers deal with the problems of long distance gas transmission, while other papers are devoted to more special power problems concerning the iron and steel industry, pulp and paper, and cement, sugar, textile and other steam heat consuming industries. Energy questions of transport provide the subjects for 62 reports; railway and marine transport, the peculiarities of city and suburban traffic are to be discussed with due emphasis on the new aspects which have been introduced by electric traction and Diesel engines.
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World Power Conference. Nature 131, 22 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131022a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131022a0