Gernsback Hugo. Power from the Air

Science and Invention. — 1922. — February (vol. IX, no. 10 (106)). — P. 890.During the War there was developed in Germany a new art — or science — that bids fair to salons our present means of obtaining Power.
This art, which is as new now as wireless was twenty-five years ago, will attain pro during the next twenty years that may appear fantastic to-day. The inventor of the new science, an engineer of note, Herr Hermann Plauson, has devoted years of labor to his researches and he has now actually in use small power plants, ey generate electricity direct from the air, day and night, without interruption at pracim no cost, once the plant is constructed.
Not only that, but as the inventor points out, no devastating thunder storms occur near such aerial power plants, because the balloons act not onlya s lightning arresters, but they quickly discharge the tiggest thunder cloud, safely and noiselessly through ther grounded spark gaps.