CHEAPER GAS
FROM Anthracite NEW INVENTION CLAIM Gas can be produced from anthracite by a new gas generating machine at (One-fifth the average coot in the United States, according to engineers at the Anthracite Institute laboratory at. Primos, Pennsylvania. The machine operates automatically, it is claimed, and produces gas of uniform quality at a price of 20 cents (roughly lOd at par) per 1000 cubic feet, for commercial use. It. was explained that various utility companies charge 90 cents for 1000 cubic feet for domestic- use, the price dropping to 45 cents for large industrial users. “Our estimated cost of 20 cents,” said an engineer at the laboratory, 1 includes power, water, and maintenance of the equipment oa well as the cost of anthracite fuel to generate the or as.” It is estimated that there is a potential" market for 18,000,000 tons .of hard coal annually. Several industries which consume large quantities of gas i are being studied to discover how the i now gas generating machine can 1)0 made most useful to them in heating and process operations. Anthracite gas made by the new machine adapts itself to a wide range of heat requirements. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17944, 23 November 1932, Page 2
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195CHEAPER GAS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17944, 23 November 1932, Page 2
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