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Nonrenewable energy resources available in very large quantities are limited to heavy hydrogen and dry geothermal energy. Large-scale renewable resources are solar and atmospheric electricity (Moody, 1978). These four may be regarded as the ultimate energy sources, but they are unlikely to contribute significantly to the total energy budget for at least the next few decades. Synthetic fuels are already in production, but widespread conversion is being held back by economic and environmental considerations. Wind, water, and biomass conversion will play an enlarged, but still relatively minor, role. This leaves coal, uranium, and petroleum to provide the bulk of the immediately foreseeable energy requirements.
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Galloway, W.E., Hobday, D.K. (1983). The Fuel-Mineral Resource Base. In: Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0170-7_1
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