FUTURE OF OIL FUEL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3070, 17 March 1914, Page 3

FUTURE OF OIL FUEL.

In. his presidential address to a large gathering of members of the Junior Institute of Engineers at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Sir Boverton Redwood spoke on the future of oil fuel. He said, although he was precluded from making any specific reference to the intentions of his Majesty's Government in regard to oil fuel, he had no doubt that adequate supplies for naval purposes could and would be obtained. To a large extent the immediate future of oil fuel depended upon the volution of the internal combustion engine, and, as regards the mercantile marine, upon the measure of success attending the efforts to construct satisfactory engines of the Diesel type of large cylinder capacity. Although it was impossible to say what further stores of petroleum remained to be discovered, it was evident that, notwithstanding the rapid development of the remarkably prolific fields of California and Mexico, the success which was attending the drilling operations in Persia and Sarawak, and the promise of a large yield in Trinidad, a considerable expenditure of capital would be required greatly to increase the average rate of expansion in the industry, having regard to the circumstance that sonic of the older oil fields were showing signs of exhaustion. There would doubtless be a continuous and large increase in the requirements of the navies of the world. Further rapid progress might also be expected in the use of the more volatile products in road motor-vehicles, whilst in some countries favourably situated in respect of supplies, no doubt, tlicre would be a greatly extended employment of oil fuel on railways. In respect, however, to the general substitution of oil for coal as a source of pow§r in industrial establishments, it did not seem reasonable to anticipate more than the adoption of the former fuel to the limited exextent commensurate with a gradual incicase in the output. and with the surplus available after other demands had been satisfied.

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