This was one of our views of the lake that day.
The Electron Hydroelectric Project, one of Washington state’s oldest hydropower facilities, began generating electricity in 1904. Since then, its turbine generators and other infrastructure have
undergone numerous upgrades. The project draws water from the
Puyallup River and funnels it
10 miles downstream to the Electron powerhouse via a wooden flume running high along the Puyallup River’s steep, winding valley.
The 10-mile wooden flume feeds water – up to 400 cubic feet per second – to Electron’s man-made reservoir, which is capable of storing 120 acre-feet of water. The small rail line that sits atop the flume uses “speeder cars” to shuttle maintenance workers and equipment, and is known as “the crookedest railway in the world. Electron flume: “Crookedest railway in the world”.
Electron powerhouse, along the Puyallup River in East Pierce County
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker
He developed the electrical potential field as a bi-directional flow of energy (sometimes referred to as alternating currents). Whittaker's pair of papers in 1903 and 1904 indicated that any potential can be analysed by a Fourier-like series of waves, such as a planet's gravitational field point-charge. The superpositions of inward and outward wave pairs produce the "static" fields (or scalar potential). These were harmonically-related. By this conception, the structure of electric potential is created from two opposite, though balanced, parts. Whittaker suggested that gravity possessed a wavelike "undulatory" character.
Pearl Jo Prihoda © Oct. 18, 2008 -09