WASTED COAL AND WASTE WATER
Cheap coal means waited coal. According to Sir Dugald Clerk, a,bout half the coal consumed in the United Kingdom ie used for heating purposes, and most of that heat goe* up the chimn«y. In this expert's opinion, the only practicable method of ensuring coal economy is "to carbonise all coal at gasworks and legislate to prevent its being used for direct burning, either for domestic or for manufacturing purpoßßs." Assuming for argument's sake that Sir Dugald is right, hie voice will be as the voice in the wilderness so long as ooal i» cheap; but every rise in the price thereof helps drive his warning home. Here in New Zealand the deafness of coal must also tend to its conservation. Hydro-electricity provides an alternative power much more available in this country than in most of the manufacturing districted of Britain; and coal conservation in New Zealand mean* harnessing the water as well as improving the utilisation of the coal. Any doubts as to the wisdom—and also the urgency— of hydro-electrical development must have been dissipated by the fuel famine and by the last week's industrial happenings.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19190815.2.40
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1919, Page 6
Word Count
191WASTED COAL AND WASTE WATER Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1919, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in