Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1920 — Eucalyptus Fuel. [ARTICLE]

Eucalyptus Fuel.

Eucalyptus trees planted on tropical mountain aides would produce fuel at the rate of 20 tons, dry weight (60 pounds to the cubic foot), per acre annually. This in perpetuity, the plantations when cut reproducing themselvee without further expense. Such is the declaration of a scientist who says that by this means the sun’s heat in hot latitudes can be economically stored, the dry eucalypt timber being heavier than coal and possessing more heating power, bulk for bulk. y - An acre of eucalypts in the troplcs, he asserts, would produce the equivalent of at least twenty tons of coal per annum, the only requirements being powerful sunshine and heavy rainfall to insure rapid growth. So, with such a possible resource available, why worry about the threatened exhaustion of the coal mines?—Exchange.