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One may say that the twentieth Century was outlined by the fossil gasoline trade. Nearly the entire enormous developments that humankind got here to take pleasure in within the 1900s had been rooted in an abundance of low cost vitality, and that was delivered to us nearly completely within the type of oil, pure gasoline, and petroleum.
The twenty first Century, alternatively, will probably be outlined by the transition to low-carbon sources of vitality, primarily photo voltaic, wind, and nuclear.