Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1920 — NOW FUEL FROM THE AIR [ARTICLE]

NOW FUEL FROM THE AIR

Western Writer Waxes Sarcastic Over Certain Enthusiastic Project* In Contemplation. Two or three times a year, father, who has trouble getting fuel for his flivver, becomes greatly excited over the discovery of some new kind of economic fuel that may be made out of spring water, or sawdust, but his hopes are always dispelled. Nothing further Is heard about the swell fuel, and he continues to fight for his gas as usual, says the Seattle Post-Intel-ligencer. Just now he is greatly »excited over another cheap fuel story, and this time right here at home where he can watch it. A Seattle man has been running an engine on air, has installed it on a newly devised dirigible airship and soon he expects to ascend from his Youngstown airdome and remain aloft for six days and six nights without coming back to earth for fuel, food or water. He starts his engine with an electric battery, and begin* at once to generate power from the air. After that he claims to be able to generate power from air until his engine wears out. the Seattle airship is fourteen feet long and ten feet high, the upper half being a gas chamber, and the lower occupied by engine room and bunks. There , are two propellers. Five passengers may be carried, and the thing makes about 25 miles an hour when pressed. Breakfast in Seattle, dinner in New York. Some story, eh? And father Is greatly excited about it. Now that we are making fuel out of air we shall require to be more careful with it With general adoption of the air engine the great waste heretofore apparent must be stopped. Look, for Instance, at the prodigal waste that goes forward at political conventions. Look at the windy nosts sapping up the oxygen, and giving back nothing but nitrogen! An airship propelled by an air engine would meet- a vacuum and have to come to earth because of the lack of raw fuel In the atmosphere. The Yojmgstown Inventor has our most optimistic friendship. We hope he makes his engine go. If he can win out with It fuel for winter may be procured from the air: we may run the Seattle municipal street cars on air; arid we may make our electricity for light and power from it. We may practically live on air. That is what a select few have accomplished in the past, and the habit should be made common.