THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE.
Wc have many times expressed in these columns the conviction that the time was near at hand when water-gas (hydrogen and carbonic oxide) would come into general use, replacing coal for domestic purposes, in cities, at least, and in many netallurgical operations. It has also seemed juobablc that enriched it would supplant the coal gas now in general use for. illuminating purposes, though as the time seems approaching when electric lightning will be so perfected as to supplanl gas, it has always appeared to us that the question of fuel gas was a far more important one than that of illuminating gas. Many of our predictions concerning water-gas have already been verified. It has been fully proven that enriched water-gas is a cheaper and much better illmniuant than coal gas, and that it is in no respect more dangerous, the carbonic oxide bugaboo having been abandoned even by the fossilised heads of the coa-gas monopoly.—'"Engineering and Mining Jourual.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2089, 2 December 1879, Page 2
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163THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2089, 2 December 1879, Page 2
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