NEW USE FOR PEAT.
A report published in the Irish press of a successful experiment in the use of peat lis fuel at a l'ortndown weaving factory may mark the beginning of an important departure in the development of Irish industries. It is staled that by means of a gas generating plant, wherein the only fuel used is peat, sufficient gas is generated to provide the power required in the factorv at a cost vastly less than that incurred when coal was used. Not only is there a big direct saving in the price of the peat, but'about .'lO per cent, .of its cost is recovered from the tar by-product. The Vortadown installation is the first of its kind in Ireland, and the problem (if the profitable utilisation of peat for driving plant: lias, it is declared, at last been solved. The eommerciil benefits accruing to Ireland from a substitution of peat lor coal would bo inestimable.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1326, 2 January 1912, Page 2
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157NEW USE FOR PEAT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1326, 2 January 1912, Page 2
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