Sixty Per Cent, of Spirit Said to be Obtainable Berlin, Nov. 25.
With an expenditure of £20,000, (000 to £25,000,000 Germany could be able within ten years to erect sufficient coal-refining plants to pro duce the 2,600,000 tons of motor fuel which' she requires annually, declared Dr. Brucekmann, director of the German Minoral-Oil and Coal Utilization Company, in the cou of a lecture in Berlin to-Dr, Brueckmann said that this estimate was based on the latest. developments in the Bergin process for recovering oil from coal. The process was so advanced that it was already possible to extract 12 ewts. of motor-fuel from a ton of coal, AL plant with an output of 60,000 tons could work with a nett profit of about fifty marks a ton.—Reuter,
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