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First time ever solar power is used in Greek homes.
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Wind power is introduced to Europe. These Windmills are first built in the Netherlands. Windmills have been around for a long time. The traditional windmills, as well as their modern cousins, are a common sight in the Dutch landscape.
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Māori uses geothermal water and coal for cooking and heating. Earth is captured and harnessed for cooking, bathing, space heating, electrical power generation, and other uses. Heat from Earth's interior generates surface phenomena such as lava flows, geysers, fumaroles, hot springs, and mud pots.
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First US oil well. First oil well in America is drilled in Pennsylvania.
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Otto Hahn, of Germany, discovers the process of nuclear fission for energy. The Chemist Otto Hahn won many awards for his work, including the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear energy.
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First atomic bomb detonated in New Mexico, USA. The bomb was apart of the Manhattan Project for the second World War. The bomb's name was Trinity.
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Worst nuclear meltdown with nuclear fallout occurs at Chernobyl, Ukraine. This meltdown happened in the No. 4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the now-abandoned town of Pripyat, in northern Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
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The world’s biggest power cut affected more than 50 million people when a fault in a power company in Canada causes a black-out across the eastern USA and Canada collectively. It was known as the Northeast blackout. Some didn't get their power back for days.
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The 168 km pipeline, which carries jet fuel, diesel, and petrol directly from the refinery at Marsden Point to tanks in South Auckland, is damaged by a digger. Air travel is disrupted and some Auckland petrol stations run out of petrol.
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1636-energy-sources-through-time-timeline
