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... energy from the sun trapped by plants through photosynthesis . Such economies were incapable of sustaining prolonged growth since the maximum quan- tity of heat and mechanical energy which could be secured in this fashion was modest . 6 ...
... energy from the sun trapped by plants through photosynthesis . Such economies were incapable of sustaining prolonged growth since the maximum quan- tity of heat and mechanical energy which could be secured in this fashion was modest . 6 ...
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... energy supplies would have exercised the same restraining influence on growth which it had always done . But a means of escape was found , by happenstance rather than conscious design initially , and once the nature of the escape route ...
... energy supplies would have exercised the same restraining influence on growth which it had always done . But a means of escape was found , by happenstance rather than conscious design initially , and once the nature of the escape route ...
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... energy capital which had been locked up in coal deposits 300 million years previously . The annual flow of solar energy could not sustain continued growth ; only by tapping a vast capital stock of energy could it be sustained and ...
... energy capital which had been locked up in coal deposits 300 million years previously . The annual flow of solar energy could not sustain continued growth ; only by tapping a vast capital stock of energy could it be sustained and ...
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