Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1920 — End of Coal Deposits Seen. [ARTICLE]

End of Coal Deposits Seen.

It is calculated that English coal will come to an end in about IMMI years. German coal In 1,400 years and American coni in 2,000 years. Yet It is consoling to tly'nk that f<w our decendants there are possibilities of warmth which are independent of coal, says the Manchester Guardian. It may. for Instance, be possible to harness the Niagara falls, the Zambesi, the Congo foils, «>r even the tides themselves. Then there is also the theory that only a few miles below the surface of the earth there are huge carbide deposits, and some day, perhaps, borings will be possible which will thbn discowr an almost limitless source of heat. Finally, it is conceivable that the problem of the disintegration of matter will one day be solved. If a gram of lead could be completely resolved into helium, the energy thereby produced would ba equal to that yielded by the burning of 200 tons of coal.