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    History & Milestones

    Energy has a long history. Beginning back before people could read and write, fire was discovered to be good for cooking, heating and scaring wild animals away. Then there was the steam-driven Industrial Revolution, followed by an era of electricity-powered machines, followed by a relatively nuclear era.

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