Energy Equivalence of British Coal Production in 1913
By 1913, the energy output from coal in Britain had reached a staggering scale. The amount of energy produced by British coal during that year was equivalent to the energy that could be obtained from biomass grown on an area four times the size of Great Britain's entire landmass. This illustrates how fossil fuels broke the constraints imposed by land availability.
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