When Rudolf Ehrenfried Buse set up a bag factory in Germany in 1875, he became fascinated by what we know today as natural gas and carbon dioxide (CO2) that seeped from the soil in the area surrounding it.
He became so interested in these gases that he devoted his time to liquefying them rather than manufacturing bags.
Buse set up carbonic acid plants in several locations across Germany and encountered water whilst drilling from the spring at his facility in Gerolstein.
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