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First natural gas well was drilled in Fredonia, New York
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The very first natural gas pipeline was built that was 120 miles long and stretched from Indiana to Chicago
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Discovered that the burning process used to make charcoal from wood could be adapted to coal. This resulted in an extremely hot-burning fuel, named coke.
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The voyager 2's electricity needed for the spacecraft is generated by the decay of plutonium pellets..... cool right
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John fitch is able to create the steamboat which is the first automated boat that ran off of fossil fuels successfully.
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Chicago now adds hydrogen cell busses to the mass transit system
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Coal is officially named the dominant source of electricity in the United States
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The president of the US (Bush at the time) approves an energy policy that looks at nuclear energy as a big part of american energy.
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Hydropower is finally accepted as a good use for energy in the US.
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