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Fossil fuel

Timetables of power

December 15, 2020April 7, 2016 by Bart Hawkins Kreps

Fossil fuels are polluting and in limited supply, but they give us copious amounts of energy from small areas of land. Doing without these concentrated fuels won’t be a simple matter of trading a gas tank for a plug-in. A look at Vaclav Smil’s Power Density.

Categories Energy Tags Fossil fuel, power density, Renewable Energy Leave a comment
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