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People have been using biomass since they've used wood for fire
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Windmills used for pumping water and grinding grain in 200 BC
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Count Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist, created the first "voltaic pile"
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People began using gasification to heat and light their German towns
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Appleton, Wisconsin http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_hydro_1.html
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Engineers find ways to use ocean currents to generate electricity
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America dropped the atomic bombs and emitted great amounts of nuclear energy. http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/atomic-bomb
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The plant was under the "Atoms for Peace" program that was put in place by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Holonyak was originally trying to make a laser when he stumbled upon something else.
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Chernobyl nuclear power plant explodes http://www.greenfacts.org/en/chernobyl/
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Hydroelectic dam in China
*the months and the days are not exact http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-18718406
