CHEAP FUEL FOR THE MILLION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 5

CHEAP FUEL FOR THE MILLION

ARTIFICIAL COAL AT M PER TON. Iu contrast to' the twenty million Years which nature takes to produce coal a process by which coal slack, coke oust, sawdust, and household ashes can be "concreted" into a fuel equally valuable was described by Mr.. R. Goulburn Lovell and Mr. C. M. Hurcs, and they declare that iu any locality the fuel can lie made without pressure at any industrial locality from the waste products possessing an >' calorific value to be found there. During millions of years the contortions of the earth's surface by great volcanic upheaval had produced innumerable varieties of coal throughout the world, and it would not he difficult to understand, said Mr. Lovoll, that wan must not expect to produce it on any one uniform plan. It had lwen ascertained, however, that certain relative proportions could be determined ot ft more or less uniform character. Mr Lovell then showed coal concreted from coal dust alone, others from coke dust alone, destrnctor ash alow, and bar asl and sawdust '\t willbe seen in flie fire," he said, "that the better "rndes Kirn like natures coaK tnn lower (Trades like coke. These r.rtificinl coals In-ill be found to be more lasting in the same way that a Rood artificial stone is moro la«=Hn.r than most stones made by nature.": The machinery e"d plant, the sneaker declared, practically existed in all industrial centres, ihe essentials are crushers or breakers, screens, drying tables, mixers, and moulds =nch i* ce*t a"-av miK baths, etc. The cost, Mr. Lovell said, depended upon thn value put upon the bases, but labour and establishment charges would not be more thnu ss. a ton, and the fuel could be sold at roughly XI per lon.