NITROGEN AS AN ENERGY PRODUCER
An American mining engineer hafl arrived iu England with an invention for using nitrogen as an enorgy-producK in place of coal, at a fraction of the cost. He is offering it in tho first place to the British Government. In an interview with a representative o£ the "Observer," he pointed out that there are in the atmosphere nearly 4009 billion tons of nitrogen available for, use iu tho new power, and unlike tho use of hydro-carbon fuels, which are.' destroyed, his method of using nitro-'power-'converts the fuel back into its elementary state. "It can be used,"he said, "for every purpose for which' coal and crude oil are now used, even to smelting. With the apparatus I have invented one ton of nitro energy is equivalent to 1300 tons of coal, and it is safer than petrol. From its electricity can be made for a fiftieth of the present cost, and five,or six generating stations with trunk lines radiating to all parts of the country, will turn every wheel in the Kingdom, light and heat the homes, and do the cooking. A! battleship could be kept at sea for a year without a new supply of fuel."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3073, 8 May 1917, Page 6
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201NITROGEN AS AN ENERGY PRODUCER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3073, 8 May 1917, Page 6
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