AFTER COAL AND OIL
For millions of years Nature has ac» cumulated vast quantities of coal and petroleum. For centuries man has drawn upon this storehouse of fuel, and eventually the time must come when these resources will be exhausted. Scientists think there is enough for another hundred years. What then? Coal and petroleum consist in the main of carbon and hydrogen. Chemists believe it will be possible to convert farm crops into the essential hydrocarbons (compounds of carbon and hydrogen) on a big enough scale to provide all the fuel required. Instead of helping himself to the raw material which Nature has so generously provided, man will grow his own fueL
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1938, Page 10
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112AFTER COAL AND OIL Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1938, Page 10
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