PEAT BOGS CAN HELP
TO FUEL AND ARM BRITISH WARSHIPS Merc vital war materials like oi! nnd cordite can he obtained from peat begs in allied counlrirs when a new method For carbonising peat has been developed on a commercial .scale. Evolved by British engineers only n few months ago. the indications are that the new process will vieh' over three limes Use quantity of tar compared witli existing methods, giving a correspondingly larger yield, of cliesel and other oils, it is also hoped to obtain about !2 per cent of carbo-hydrates from the tar water yielding acetone for the manufacture of cordite, the smokeless oxplosive propeliar.t used by the Navy and Army. Peat, used from time immemorial as a fuel, has become of increasing industrial importance in recent years owing to the development of artificial -drying methods which reduce the time taken from weeks to hours. There is some six thousand million tons of peat solid;; In the peat bogs of Great .Britain alone, while peat bogs cover one-seventh of the area of Ireland and huge tracts in Russia and Canada.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 48, 4 May 1942, Page 6
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