Prepared Peat as Fuel

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 3, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 31.

Prepared Peat as Fuel

“Popular Mechanics” tells us that the fuel of the future is prepared peat, which exists in different parts in great abundance. One-seventh of Ireland’s surface is covered with peat beds. From these beds Sweden uses 2,000,000 of peat briquettes annually. Unused fields exist within fifty miles of Chicago sufficient to last that city a century. A new method of preparation by electricity prepares the peat for fuel at the small cost of $1.21 a ton. “Prepared peat” is an almost smokeless fuel. It burns to the last vestige, leaves a clean, white ash, and no clinker.