 | Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth - 1873 - 320 pages
...in every hour, day and night, for every day in the year, 4 acres of coal of 2 feet thick — 1 acre every quarter of an hour ! There can here be no reproduction,...drawing," as an able writer* has well put it, " more arid more upon a capital which yields no annual interest, but once turned to light, and heat, and force,... | |
 | Leeds Geological Association - 1885 - 878 pages
...statistics to show the rate we are using up our coal, and quoted Jevons, who says, " we are drawing more and more upon a capital which yields no annual interest; but once turned into light, heat, and force is gone for ever into space." The only way to delay the inevitable evil... | |
 | 1890 - 88 pages
...statistics to show the rate we are using up our coal, and quoted Jevons, who says, " we are drawing more and more upon a capital which yields no annual interest ; but once turned into light, heat, and force is gone for ever into space." The only way to delay the inevitable evil... | |
 | Harold Wright - 1923 - 198 pages
...other countries mostly subsist upon the annual and ceaseless income of the harvest, we are drawing more and more upon a capital which yields no annual interest, but once turned into light and heat and motive power, is gone for ever into space. " Rather more than a century of... | |
 | Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori - 1997 - 596 pages
...other countries mostly subsist upon the annual and ceaseless income of the harvest, we are drawing more and more upon a capital which yields no annual interest, but once turned to light and heat and motive power, is gone forever into space" (p. 412). As the quotation shows, Jevons drew a clear dividing... | |
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England in which the role of coal was of such evidently crucial importance: "... while other nations subsist upon the annual and ceaseless income of the harvest, we are drawing more and more upon a capital which yields no annual interest, but once turned... 