WIND SHOULD GENERATE ELECTRICITY FOR N. E.

New England winds would be more reliable for generating electricity on a commercial scale than water power, according to a report released by Charles F. Brooks, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. The report dealt with the work of Harvard weather scientists during the past year.

The Observatory's estimates of the amount and reliability of New England wind and power were sufficiently complete to permit the design of apparatus and the selection of tentative sites for large-scale generation of electricity by wind power.

Brooks pointed out that the case for utilization of wind rather than water power was "made particularly clear in the drought of this past summer."

This fall the University's weather scientists put into operation the country's first automatic radio weather station, transmitting regular broadcasts of weather conditions from uninhabited stations. The apparatus broadcasts on a wave-length of two and a half meters hourly readings of wind direction and velocity, sunshine conditions, pressure, temperature, and humidity.