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Show GONE FOREVER. Enough gasoline to run a Ford car 1,440,000,000 miles in wasted each year In America through preventable evaporation in storage tanks. So announce an-nounce Johns-Manvllle engineers, working with the United States bureau bu-reau of mines It seems like a big waste. It Is. But America is a land of waste. The old saying, that the food we throw Into our garbage pails would feed Europe, Eur-ope, lie not far from correct However, like other people, most of us are reasonably economical Wo turn the carpet to distribute bleaching bleach-ing by the sunlight Instead of letting the fading concentrate on one end. We make the remains of the roast into hash. We mend and patch. And, too, most of us save an attlcful of stuff that "might come In handy" but never nev-er does. The big waste In America cannot be prevented by the people. The Job is up to Inventors and engineering experts. ex-perts. A ton of coal leaves the mine with 29,000,000 British thermal (heat) units locked up in it. But only 1,014.000 of these heat units are actually converted convert-ed into mechanical energy. The rest Ib wasted lost in transit, up tho chimney chim-ney or carried away by the ashman. You could try an egg In a twinkling twin-kling by holding the "spider" crer the top of the average chimney. No one has ever been able to figure out how to save that wasted heat Erentual-ly Erentual-ly some one will. The solution may be in putting a hot water tank a few inches above the chimney top, or water wat-er pipes crosswise within the chimney. chim-ney. Slag in the steel industry used to i be wasted, piled up In small raonn-' I I alas Now it is ground up and used as a surfacing for bricks I I j Now it is ground up and used as a I surfacing for bricks. Time was, In the oil country, in the days of kerosene oil lamps, when men 1 around refineries washed their overalls over-alls In a tub of gasoline and then dumped the "gas" out Tho fellows who invented gasoline engines and autos stopped that port of wa?:e b finding a uso for gasoline. Tho profits of many big corpora tions toda are largelv in such economies econo-mies as these. More opportunities for bright minds, in the stopping of waste than any other oth-er field. |