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Running a power plant consumes resources which we only have in a limited amount (at least for nuclear, gas, coal and oil based ones). You see: there is no reason to waste something. But what actually happens to the energy that we waste? Is it gone? You might say: “Yes, because there is no way to get it back!” But a physicist would probably answer you: “Energy is conserved in nature! Always and everywhere!” And he is right. Our laws of nature are based on the conservation of certain quantities, and energy is one of it.
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Bahr, B., Lemmer, B., Piccolo, R. (2016). Conservation Laws. In: Quirky Quarks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49509-4_13
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