BRITISH GOAL SUPPLY
HOW LONG WILL IT ENDURE?
AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION.
(Received September 18, 8.55 a.m.)
LONDON, September 17.
An, interesting newspaper controversy is proceeding between Sir William) Ramsay and Dr Wilson (President of the Association of Mining Engineers). The latter alleges, that the British coal supply will endure for six hundred years.
(At a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of iSkaence, held at Bortsmouthi test (month 1 , Sir William Ramsay, the eminent chemist, in his presidential address on the sources of energy, referring to the exhaustion of the British coal supplies', said they might look forward to the approach of famine and' misery. The British .Science Guild had investigated! the available sources of energy, and had found no practical substitute for coal. They must look to a more economical use of coal to prolong the life of the nation, and adopt legislative measures to prevent its waste. He. computed fhat the British coal measures at the present rate of working would be exhausted in 175 years.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10427, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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170BRITISH GOAL SUPPLY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10427, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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