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unusual facts about renewable resource



The Burning City

The Burning City is a fantasy novel of social and political allegory by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle set in an analogue of Southern California in an imaginary past shortly after the sinking of Atlantis about 14,000 years ago in the twilight of a civilization then struggling and now vanished for lack of a crucial natural, and essentially non-renewable resource upon which almost all of its economy and technology depended.

U-Cont

Lately the focus in U-Cont has been on renewable resources, which has led the company to collaboration with St1 Biofuels and producing bio-ethanol production plants that use baking industry's waste in the process of ethanol production.


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Hubbert peak theory

Wood: The trees on Easter Island were a renewable resource but all were cut down in the 17th century, following the Hubbert bell curve, but could be restored.