The sun., 1919-03-16

France and Italy, and where lang
radius of steaming Ia desirable" T.
To make this clear Mr.. Bates spsd-
fies as follows:
"For Italy the lean llgnites q
Sicily and those Of the villa dotted
Arno valley are given value an with
the magic of a spell. For France
what she has left of coal 10 trans
muted into gold. The fuel life q
England is heightened. All her EN-
pire and all the earth, where carboa
seams its bosom, ID enriched. for
men will have It longer to use ana
to enjoy"
The Real Secret.
OF course the real secret OF this a.
parture in liquid fuels Is the 30 called
fiXateur. by which the tendency OF
the heavy particles Of coal or tar to
settle is effcctually checked. A salts
factory nXateur was not discovered
until after months Of persistent re
search in the laboratory. Now with only
twenty pounds Of this medium-which
is itself comhustible-in each ton of
the colloidal fuel, the oil and pulver-
lied coal are kept thoroughly mixed
According to Mr. Bates:
"a number Of new fuels have been
realized. each with varying percent
ages Of oil and solid carbon. Ono
useful composite is composed OF about
half coal and half oil, while another
unctuous semi-lqu!d Is nearly three
fourths coal and one-fourth oil. All OF
these fuel pastes are mobile to sus-
tanned and easily applied pressure, and
they may be thus pumped, fed and
atomized in tho combustion chamber.
These semi-fuld composites will con-
st.tutr the most compact and safest
fuel for domestic and industrial use.
and they will largely eliminate tho
smoke and ash nuisances OF cities"
To bring the potential economies
home to US Mr.. Bates calls attention
TO a part Of the Industrial section or
the eastern part OF the country, whore
as we know. much difficulty has been
encountered in supplying at times "a
sufiricncy If the kinds Of coal ordi-
narily required.
For instance. he tolls us that the uss
OF colloidal fuel in the power plants
Of New ENGLAND would result in q
saving Of 1900 600 barrels Of oil yearly
In addition to this the new fuel would
make New England less dependent
upon coal that has TO be carried there
ny rail or water from other States.
Luclus II Beers, chairman OF the
Submarine Defence Association. en-
phasi2os tho fact that in the making OF
colIoidal fuel great deposits OF low
grade coal. which have been largely
unavailable, as wen as vast quantities
Of lignites, brown Goals and wasted
dust, are added TO the worlds fuel
supplies. And, further. we are told:
ITO drive the fleets OF the air. the
argosics of motor ships, the myriahs on
motor trucks and automobiles which
will characterize this century, II Will 10
necessary to employ all the resources
OF chemistry to provide, from refining
and distillinC. enough OF the light OILS
and spirit substitutes. The cracking
processes Of pressure stills must be ex-
tended to all the crude and fuel oils
that We now know, Colloidal fuels
open the doors wide TO let the world
have from tho stills all the essences
II needs without denying the hungry
boilers or the flaming furnaces the
food they need in the form of the
grOsser fluid fuels"
We have been told repeatedly OF late
that the salvation os our new born
merchant marine depends largely upon
lowering operative costs, According
10 figures supplied by Mr. Bates, a
blended, I c. Z colloidal fuel. would
save enough in oil to effect an economy
Of nearly 80 cents on each barrel OF
LIQUID fuel. IN other words, with the
1919 consumption OF tho Emergency
Fleet placed nj 81 209, 900 barrels. tho
new fuel would save the national purse
tho very tidy sum Of substantially $l0,-
9l2 900. If the navy followed suit in
this respect. there would be an edded
economy Of $l3S6, 600. Surely, this out
come OF our efforts to get the better
of the submarine bids fair to repay Us
handsomely in the years to coma