Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — Peat Bog Fuel in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Peat Bog Fuel in Germany.

It is proposed to use the peat bogs of Germany as soueces of energy on one of the canals of the country, and In the manufacture of calcium carbide. The bogs of the valley of the Ems cover some 13,000 square miles, and the proposition has been made to erect a 10,000 horse power electric plant In the district, which would consume annually some 200,000 tons of peat, equivalent to the amount yielded by 200 acres. One acre of bog averaging ten feet in thickness contains about 1,000 tons of dried peat, and the amount produced by 430 square miles would afford as much heating power as the 80,000,000 tons of coal mined annually in Germany.