PEAT BOGS HELP
TO FUEL AND ARM BRITISH WARSHIPS.
More vital war materials like oil and cordite can be obtained from peat bogs in allied countries when a new 'method for carbonising peat has been developed on a commercial scale.
Evolved by British engineers only a few months ago, the indications are that the new process will yield over three times the quantity of tar compared with existing methods, giving a correspondingly larger yield of diesel and other oils. It is‘also hoped to obtain about 2 per cent of carbo-hydrates from the tar water, yielding acetone for the manufacture of cordite, the smokeless explosive prbpellant used by the Navy and Army. Peat, used from time immemorial as a' fuel, has become of increasing industrial importance in recent years owing to the development of artificial drying methods which reduce the time taken from weeks to hours. There is some six thousand million tons of peat solids in the peat bogs of Great Britain alone, while peat bogs cover oneseventh of the area of Ireland and huge tracts in Russia and Canada.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1942, Page 4
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180PEAT BOGS HELP Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1942, Page 4
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