We say that it -should include the coal mines, the gas industry, and the electrical industry, together with the new carbonisation and hydrogenation industries.
Let no one under-rate the tremendous task that lies ahead in achieving success in the economic hydrogenation of coal.
It is a vital thing for the country to see that this new process of hydrogenation is tried out.
It is not a matter of asking one particular firm which is going to engage in the hydrogenation process.
I remember attending a meeting at which the prospects of hydrogenation of oil were explained by a person who was called an expert.
There are already one or two patents, or three or four, in connection with low temperature carbonisation of coal and hydrogenation.
The other is hydrogenation, in which coal is heated and hydrogen at high pressure added.
In all cases tar oils are produced which form a valuable raw material for, or are best processed by, hydrogenation.
