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Petroleum, natural gas, and coal will remain the most important energy sources for some time to come (see also Box 6.1) despite all the efforts to protect the climate. Fossil fuels store the energy that living creatures of bygone times extracted from sunlight through photosynthesis. This chapter deals with the biomass that has built up and that later was converted into other compounds. Algae are the most important in the case of petroleum, while land plants are the most important in the case of coal.

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