OIL FROM COAL
CHANCE FOR AUSTRALIA MAY REVOLUTIONISE INDUSTRY ' The Imperial Fuel Research Board is investigating German reports of the successful production of synthetic petrol from brown coal. The board states that if the German results justified the forecasts it might mean an industrial revolution in Australia, because of its illimitable supplies of lignite, and its consequent possible independence of imported petrol. Nevertheless there are two important reservations. The Germans have not disclosed the scientific method of production. The department is familiar with the Bergiu process, with which it has been experimenting in co-operation with British, but unofficially. A process successful in Germany would not necessarily be equally successful in Australia, unless that country’s brown coal is chem oally similar to the German. —A. and N.Z.
A recent cablegram from Berlin read at follows: The 'Borsen Courier' hints that the German Dye Trust s experiments in the distillation of synthetic oil fuel have been so successful t tat it will be freely marketed in the pr'sent year. It is understood that alreaov there :>re three plants, two of which up t> now have most strictly been kep eevret.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 11
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188OIL FROM COAL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 11
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