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Just a few years after the U.S. celebrated its first centennial it passed another milestone. In about 1885, coal replaced wood as the nation’s primary energy source. Wood, properly managed, is a renewable resource. Coal is not. Nor are the other energy sources developed and put to use in the last 100 years. Coal, natural gas, petroleum, uranium, thorium, and deuterium are all resources that can be used but once.
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Kenney, V.P., Lucey, J.W. (1985). Energy Demand-Energy Supplies. In: Ott, K.O., Spinrad, B.I. (eds) Nuclear Energy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4589-3_3
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