The considerable amount of time and money that has been devoted 10 fuel research in Great Britain hax been well spent, and the annual report of the Fuel Research Board which, was recently issued contained remarkable evidence of the economies resulting from increased qmeleney the use of coal during' the past twenty-five years. In 1010, when the population was forty-one million, the mount of coal consumed was' 180 million tons; by 1954, when the population had increased by four million, the consumption of coal was 19 million tons less. The report JPoints out that it is greater emeiency coal-burning plant, and not the use of elf fuel, which has been main: ly responsible for the reduction. in the consumption of coal, It ig fur ther stated that had the use of fuel by the electrical, yas, and iron and steel industries not boon more otlcient than in 1910 they would have required 31,500,000 ore' tons of coal jin 1934, and the total consumption fof coal in Great Britain would have increased Wy more than twelve million tons instead of declining by nineteen million tons. To take elee-UWiety alone, between 1910 and 1994 production increased by 848 per cent. with an increase of only 183 por cent, coal consumption, a saving 17,600,000 tons. Other "factors con-{ributing to the decline in the eon. Jsumption of coal, besides the greater oicioney in its uses by the industries mentioned, include the use by householders of more scientific grates and the improvement and refining of th: Jeoat used; 40 per cent. of the total now sold being "elean" as compared with only 20 per cent. eight years ago.
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