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Excerpt from Regulation, Valuation and Depreciation of Public Utilities The book is limited to the discussion of basic principles. There fore, no reference is made to the kaleidoscopic and ephemeral regu lation enactments of the different States and Municipalities. Neither can blanket rules be given that may be blindly applied - without expert legal or engineering knowledge of the local conditions - as a test for the cost of Utility service or regulation standards in any given case.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...1. "The most important step is to maintain the rails perfectly bonded, so that the tracks form continuous electrical conductors/' (140) 2. 'Limit the radius from the power station to which the station supplies electric power, so that the currents do not have to be returned from excessive lengths of rails to any one power station. This is usually accomplished in practice by supplying power to electric railways from distributed sub-stations." (140) 3. "Remove current from rails wherever there is concentration of current, by means of insulated return feeders." (140) 4. "The return feeders should be proportioned for constant drop, so that the rails at all points where return feeders are connected are maintained at substantially the same potential under average load conditions." (140) 5. "The rails immediately in front of the power station must not be connected directly to the negative bus-bar, unless a resistance corresponding to the average resistance of the return feeders is connected in the circuit." (140, . 6. "The rails must not be bonded to any other underground structures." (91) 7. "The.return conductors should have a cross-section at least equal to that of the outgoing conductors." (91) 8. "Each return conductor must be provided with either an adjustable resistance or a negative booster, so that the product of current and resistance may be made the same for all conductors." (91) 9. "By connecting a voltmeter, it must always be possible to determine the potential of all the points where return conductors are connected to the rails, and points of relatively highest potentials in the rail network." (91) 431 Importance of Proper Copper Distribution in...
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Excerpt from Public Utilities Their Cost New and Depreciation The valuation of public utility undertakings is a mixed question of fact, judgment and law. A comprehensive treatment of this subject requires the combined knowledge of the engineer, the economist and the lawyer. The fol lowing pages, written by an engineer, cannot be offered as an authoritative discussion of the legal questions involved. On the other hand the engineer, who is called upon to prepare and present most of the figures required by courts and commissions as evidence of the value of the property of such undertakings, must have a sufficient knowledge of the legal questions that are at issue to enable him to obtain properly and intelligently the figures needed by the tribunals whose duty it is to assign the fair present value. This must be offered in explanation of the many quotations from decisions of courts and commissions which have been incorporated in the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
