COAL FROM THE TAP.
Some day, inventors say, when we want to light tho kitchen orate for breakfast wo shall be ablo to turn on a tan of liquid coal and set a light to it. That will be the outcomo of all the experiments which are being raado now to supply us with coal half cooked with all its juices within it, so that fewer of its heat-giving materials will fly up the chimnoy in smoke and dust and ashes. Those experiments are called the low temperature carbonisation of coal. But thoy will not end in leaving us with merely solid coal in another form. Eventually they will liquefy tho pitchy parts of it. When invention gets' as far as that great furnaces and kilns will be set up in tho coalfields and the inflammable oil will be pumped to neighbouring towns. It sosns a dream now, but'is it any stranger than the idea of supplying coal ons to every house seemed to our forefathers? If we can get coal and its heat in tho form of a gas, why not in the form of a liquid, to bo turned on through a tap?
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 15
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195COAL FROM THE TAP. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 15
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