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Growing oil, one of the clearest examples of renewable fuel, means just that. Up until now, we have been mining oil, the ancient photosynthetic product of several hundred million years ago. The question now most frequently arising is about new sources of ancient photosynthetically produced materials, and there is no longer a tenable positive answer to this question. Other alternatives must be found.
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Calvin, M. (1986). Renewable Fuels and Materials. In: Nicolini, C. (eds) Bioscience at the Physical Science Frontier. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4834-7_11
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