A NEW FUEL.
A nw fuel has been invented in Mexico, called "turbato," consisting principally of bog peat, of which there are large quantities in the country, and which is mixed with a proportion of bitumen or 11 ehapopote." The fuel is made of five different descriptions—for locomotives, stationary engines, smelting purposes, smiths’ fires, and household purpose*. Bis said to burn freely and without much smoke, giving a higher dynamic equivalent of heat that the same amount of wood, and one very nearly as great as the best English «qal. It can be manufactured and sold in Mexico at a price considerably below coal or wood, and, looking at the daily increasing demand for fuel, the advance in the price of wood, and its growing scarcity, it is probable that there will be a good market for the new fuel. As all the ingredients neceesary for its manufacture are found in inexhaustible quantities in Mexico, it will create a new and important industry in the republic. With a good and cheap fuel, it does not need a Wizard to foresee the impetus that will be given to Mexican manufactures of every description.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 36, 10 January 1884, Page 3
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192A NEW FUEL. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 36, 10 January 1884, Page 3
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