Abstract
THE report of the Fuel Research Board for the year ending March 31, 1935, is timely, coming just when the difficulties of the coal industries are again forced upon public notice by the restiveness of labour in the mining community. Here is an industry equipped and staffed for a production of coal greatly in excess of current requirements. The industry itself seems to have lacked prevision of the results of the natural trend of events. It has sunk large new pits as though consumption would continue the expansion of pre-War days. Then an abundant export market existed and wasteful consumption at home offered tempting opportunities to secure economy by attention to more efficient consumption. Indeed, this economy was enjoined by the Ministry of Reconstruction at the end of the Great War, as an aim to be sought by national action. Consumers have grasped at the economies to be secured by better technique in fuel consumption, and the report gives clear illustrations by quoting figures covering the reign of King George.
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H., H. Coal Production and Utilisation. Nature 137, 10–11 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137010a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137010a0