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Resources
Conventional Resources
Steam Electricity: Only developed before the Industrial revolution it has reached maximum efficiency and been used for atleast 2 centuries
Plant and plant-products: The first resources used by humans it allows us to consume nutrients, they have been cultivated and genetically modified for generations
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Disadvantages: They are non improvable, extremely old, some of them are bad for the environment such as fossil fuel derived Steam electricity
Advantages: They are more usuable, better researched and understood, easier to build/use, extremely efficent
Unconventional resources
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Nuclear Energy: Only developed in the mid 1900s, it has only been used as a resource for less that a century.
Renewable electricity: Developed in 1882, the technology is expensive to build and could only be accessed after electricity was a prime resource.
Advantages: Improvable, Safe, New tech, Safe for the environment
Disadvantage: Inefficient, unsafe/unpredictable, costly, Not researched fully
Non-renewable resources:
Fossil fuels: Fossil fuels take millions of year to form and hence cannot be renewed at the rate we are mining them.
Old gen nuclear technology: Developed after WW2, require MASSIVE plants to build and are catastrophic when failed but they also give a high Watt output and are extremely efficient
Disadvantages: They do not last for long, usually their extraction/use is bad for the environment, they are also more unsafe.
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Metals: All the metals that are in the earths crust will stay at that amount unless external events such as volcanoes, supernovas, and other events.
Renewable resources
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Disadvantages: Less efficient, less researched,
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