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Show ! Utilization of Waate. L The TJnttod States Steel corporation J Is Installing 12 monster engines at various va-rious plants, the unlquo feature about them being that they do not require oil, coke, coal, wood or ordinary gas for fuel. They are to bo operated solely with tho gas which Is generated in tho company's blast furnaces during dur-ing the process of steel manufacture. This gas has heretofore gone to wasto, but hereafter It will be made to turn all tho wheels. For a steel plant to bo able to save the cost of its fuel la taking a very big stride toward to-ward economy. To bo ablo to abolish abol-ish smoko at tho samo time will add to Its popularity In communities whore the smoke-belching stacks have smotherod the air with blackness. black-ness. Ono more real triumph for the American restless brain. |