Excerpt from Power in Alberta: Water, Coal and Natural Gas In the foregoing review, attention has been devoted solely to water-power and its utilization. There is a fairly general popular belief that water-power is inker ently cheaper than steam-power. AS a matter of fact, their relative costs are dependent upon a number of considerations, and, in many instances, steam-power is cheaper than water-power, particularly Since 1914, owing to the altered conditions created by the war. AS compared with steam-power, water-power has the following advantages. 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.