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THE article in NATURE of May 6, and Sir W. Ramsay's comment upon it, direct attention to a most important economic question. It has often crossed my mind that by a simple legislative enactment a marked saving might be effected in our factory consumption of coal. If Parliament would enact that after a given year, say 1920, a considerable penalty should be payable by the owner of any factory where the consumption of fuel coal exceeded 11/2 lb. per hour per indicated horse-power, it is probable that almost all factories would by that date be improved up to that level of efficiency.
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MCDOUGALL, A. The Imperial Side of the Fuel Question. Nature 80, 309 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080309c0
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