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Show ENERGY CANNOT BE MADE. Whatever a speaker ventures to say before a body of men as grave and wise as the American Institute of Mining Engineers must be taken rather seriously. In spite of that fact, however, one is assailed by a certain dubiety on reading of the announce-no announce-no nt by u speaker at tho institute's Annual dinner of the discovery of a ivaj to make "synthetically" an oil from which gasoline can be distilled. Of course cautions is necessary in these days, when putting limits to the possible achievements of science, sci-ence, but though synthetic chemistry has done many marvelous things, it lias never done anything quite like this Viewed as S source of power, gasoline is simply condensed sunshine sun-shine and Its manufacture. In the ordinal) sense of that word, is pretty neorl unthinkable. The othi r products called synthetic are of a wholly different nature, and 1 they are all utilizations of energy rather than sources of it. Synthetic ' gasoline Is not quite uuthmkable. but as wont.-; are commonly used it verges Closely on the impossible, and ,t is not Horn post-prandial oratory that information about it Is to be sought. Energy cannot be made, ! it can only be stored for use as re ceived from what Is for US practically the only source. Now York Times. oo- |