The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-04
WE WILL BURN
 WATER AS FUEL Spokane Man Has a Novel
 Scheme CUT DOWN THE COAL BILLS Also Promises to Revolutionize the In- dustrial WorId-captain Warren's
 Process Is Cheee. and
 Economical.
CUT DOWN THE COAL BILLS
From the Kansas Citx Journal.

rum tne Kansas City Journal. son of Spokane man, Captain Ed ward Warren, proposes to solve the fuel problem and revolutionize the industrial world by burning water for fuel
 He proposes to abolish coal mining and coal hauling, to make possible an ocean Ieviathan which will cross from New York to Liverpool in three hours, to have at mana always and everywhere a never ending fuel, free of cost to all corners. Captain Warrens scheme has the in- dorsement of NilSola Tesla, that famous wizard of science. The Captain has re- gently returned to New Yark from A two years absence on sailing vessel and has brought with him the crystallized result or many months study and research While he has been sailing the deep or alternately leading the strenuous and sim pie life ashore he has steadily pursued his experiment, building boats and ap- paratus for the purpose, and now he is preparing to give the results to the world The invention is nothing less revolu- | tionary than manufacturing fuel out of water!
 The world now secures power from water by utilizing it's weight on an old fashioned water wheel or a modern tur- bine. It also utilizes the power of water by turning 1t into steam. Captain War ren's invention separates the chemical
 
 | tage of the explosive capacity of these elements in recombining to produce pow l CT. The product of recombination Is | water, which, of course, may be used l over and over as many times as extrane- ous forces are applied to decompose or | separate 1t into elements
 Burn water!' Captain Warren says "Only in the sense in which we burn | CarhOnic of | bustion. The constituent clements of each l are combustible when isolated. The only 1 problem is to separate or isolate them l after they have once been combined. This nature is constantly doing and we have only to accelerate or short circuit" her processes In order to restore immedi- ately these comb'.stible substances to their elemental state and have them ready to unite at our bidding in the phenomenon of combustion. Burning or combustion, Is simply the manifestation of the action of chemical affinity. We burn the elemental substances, hydrogen and oxygen, by bringing them together under conditions favorable to the opera ton of the affinity, which causes them to unite in a new chemical compound which when condensed is water. We separate these elements by. subjecting their com pound, water, to conditions which over come or neutralize this affinity. When we can burn hydrogen for pow er when the industrial world awakens to the fact that prodigious expenditures for coal and liquid fuel are entirely un- necessary and that there Is right within our grasp an unlimited supply of fuel substance available practically without cost-for 1t Is f-producng-there will be a revolution in the industrial world, When the century old theories of the in destructibility of matter and the conser- vation of energy and matter have once become really understood by men, we will witness the utter collaps and extinction of one of the oldest and most gigantic of human industries, the mining of coal
 And further" he continued, "speed would receive a new impulse. We could have a ffty-mile boat and a three-day Lustania Today the fastest ship of the seas carries 5000 tons of coal In her bunk CTS and 15,0O0 tons of machinery to drive her. By the installation of my propulsion devices and new motive power the Lusi- tania would be so frightened that she could by changing her construction some- what make the trip of 2, ,720 miles to Ly- erpool In three days or less. She would have more cargo room and be free from the terrible vibrations that now charac- terize all high-speed ships for the new system does not involve expensive ma
 
 chemical and partly mechanical. The en- tire propellng mechanism now used would be eliminated, as the pressure of ex- banding aqueous vapor would be ap- piled directly to projecting water astern."
 As applied to warships, Captain War ren believes his new propulsive power will be of farreaching importance and give the American battleships adopting the fuel and apparatus he has devised immense advantage over the warships of other navies, as the mechanism of the Warren scheme is so simple and com paratively small that it will not be easy for torpedo or shell from the enemy to reach it.
 That hydrogen may be manufactured from water by more or less complex and expensive processes is, of course, we'll known said Captain Warren. But my process is the first by which it may be produced economically and utilized in an engine or motor.
 Tn the process of burning coal and gen. erating power in an engine an efficiency of from to 10 per cent Is the best that is realized with the most highly developed modern equipment, and this is not taking into account the manufacturing cost of the coal-mining, cleaning and transport