OIL FROM COAL
VITAL TO AUSTRALIA LONDON, Dec. 20. Emphasising its immense importance to Australia, the chairman of the Migration and Development Commission, Mr. Gepp, has submitted to Mr. Bruce a long memorandum, explaining the Bergiua system of extraeating oil' from powered" coal at a temperature J of 8(») degrees Fahrenheit, under hydrogen gas pressure or 2000 pr 3000 } omuls to the scmare inch I Obviously, it is not easy nt present to treat the large quantities of brown und bituminous varieties which arc! suitable, he savs, ami, furthermore, hydrogen i« costly, and perhaps the rii, when extracted, would prove dearer thaa natural oils. | In the meantime, two Australian nominees if the Commonwraith Research Council are undertaking two years' study of the problem at the. British fuel research station.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 3 January 1927, Page 7
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