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Show ELECTRICAL POWER FROM PEAT. Ireland's Bogs Likely to Prove Source of Vast Wealth. From peat to electrical power Is the story of a new ontorprlso in Ireland. The scheme Is tn eroct n central sta-tlon sta-tlon uiiori tJTrn-tijl.;.'Uifvl,j)'''' "' miles trdm Dublin, to produce blast furnace fur-nace gas frrom JJio peat which will drive hugo gnu engines, these in turn pro-polling pro-polling electric generators of sufficient capacity to furnish olectrlcal energy over Kings county nnd Klldaro, Tho process to bo exploited Is that of a CJormnn Inventor, whoso largo factory war Munich has boon operutlug successfully suc-cessfully far about two years, I'eat containing as much as 50 per cent, molsturo can bo used satisfactorily, the moisture becoming an ossentlal Ingredient of the water gas and preventing pre-venting too rapid combustion, An elaborate plant ts to bo Installed for by-products, such as BUlphato of ammonia, am-monia, tars, and tar oils, etc., which In themselvee nro of approciablo commercial vitluo. In tho derman factory fac-tory the process ts of r. dual nature. Poat from which 76 por cont. of the moisture ran be evaporated is converted con-verted Into peat coke, which Is used as a fuel In the German navy arid many industrial concerns, whllo tho raw material, which retains half its moisture, Is for producing tho gas from which tho by-produota aro extracted. |