Abstracts of proceedings of foreign engineering societies

I. Report of the paper of Professor Breisig, on “A Single Statistical Case of Energy Consumption in a Household.” The speaker took in his house regular readings both of the electric meter (illumination) and the gas meter (cooking), and, on the basis of these readings, made calculations as to the probable energy consumption and its distribution during the day, in case of the introduction of electric cooking. He comes to the conclusion that, if the current for cooking be metered and paid for at the usual rates, cooking by electricity would prove to be considerably more expensive than by gas. But if the current be rated at the “double tariff” or the so-called “Potsdam tariff,” the total expenditure for current for light and cooking would not exceed what is spent now for electricity for illumination, and gas for cooking.