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Show SECRET OF POWERFUL FUEL Carbon From Refuse Produces Greater Calorific Value Than Coal Cost is Very Little. "We are no longer interested In or affected even remotely by coal and miners' strikes," said the proprietor of one of the largest box and packing case manufacturing plants in the whole of London. "We get all the power we want on the premises 'for nothing." The interviewer glanced around in bewilderment at the humming engines developing 200-horsepower and the scores of men working busily at the whirring lathes, and speculated on the source of all this power. "The entire power used in these works, which have an annual output of tens of thousands of pounds," said the proprietor, "is derived from one thing, and one only the carbon from common, com-mon, wet sawdust, if air be excepted!" A patent gas plant has now been placed on the English market capable of producing not only from sawdust, but from practically all combustible refuse, a gas greater in power and calorific ca-lorific value, and richer in hydro-carbons, than the producer gas from coal. And the cost of the new fuel for manufacturers manu-facturers who possess quantities of combustible waste refuse which they would otherwise have to destroy is practically nothing. "I have recently installed one of these plants," said Mr. Clarke, of Messrs. Clarke & Co., Groveroad, Bow, who make hundreds of tons of waste sawdust, wood chips, and shavings in heir business, "and I can only say that I am delighted with it. I estimate that whereas my power was formerly derived de-rived from producer gas made from coal costing me about $25 a week, It will now cost me nothing at all. |