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Both the sustenance of life and the production of all the material artefacts of value to man must involve the consumption of energy . Food is the fuel of all living organisms , but man , unlike other animals.
Both the sustenance of life and the production of all the material artefacts of value to man must involve the consumption of energy . Food is the fuel of all living organisms , but man , unlike other animals.
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the energy budgets of organic economies , which depended almost exclusively upon annexing as much as possible of the annual inflow of energy from the sun trapped by plants through photosynthesis . Such economies were incapable of ...
the energy budgets of organic economies , which depended almost exclusively upon annexing as much as possible of the annual inflow of energy from the sun trapped by plants through photosynthesis . Such economies were incapable of ...
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a An expanding economy necessarily requires a rising expenditure of energy , broadly in parallel with the curve of growth . No organic economy could meet a rising demand of this sort indefinitely . It was essential to begin to tap the ...
a An expanding economy necessarily requires a rising expenditure of energy , broadly in parallel with the curve of growth . No organic economy could meet a rising demand of this sort indefinitely . It was essential to begin to tap the ...
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| Title | Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 121 Proceedings of the British Academy, British Academy, ISSN 0068-1202 |
| Author | British Academy |
| Publisher | British Academy |
| Original from | University of California, Berkeley |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2018 |
| ISBN | 0197263038, 9780197263037 |
| Length | 314 pages |
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