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In 2000 BC the Chinese First to Use Coal as an Energy Source. Poor people began to start heating their homes with coal becuase of the shortage of wood.
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Once oil was discovered in what is now Jian, they were saying that Oil was inexhaustible and they were going to use it for a long long time
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The Dutch used windmills for many things such as: crushing the grain, sawed wood, and crushed different spices.
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Thomas Newcomen's invention had a large impact in the Energy/Power world becuase it could produce large amounts of energy from water, wind, water current, and just good old musle power.
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The first Natural Gas well was drilled in Fredonia, New York by William Hart; it was 27 feet deep. All through out the 19th centry it was used mainly a source of light but it was also very difficult to move very far or enough to be used for cooking or heating.
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Windmills were used to pump water- designed by Daniel Halladay It was used mainly for Western Familes and Railroad workers becuase it helped to bring water to the surface in poorly moisturaized areas.
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Rockfeller formed the first Standard Oil Company in Ohion in year 1870. He drew out of hte state of Pennsylcania Oil Creek and after a couple of decades he soon controled over 90 percent of the United States Refining Capacity.
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William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day exposed that electrical current could begin by just exposing it to light. This created Solar Power Lighting
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The first Nuclear Power Plant opened in Shippingport, Pennsylvania and began to supply energy to almost all of the Pittsburg area.
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General Electric work hard to find a way to get Space men drinking water and after all the reasearch they found that fuel cells, although expensice and large, they worked flawlessly and effectively.
