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> if only someone would figure out how to convert deer, pigeon and
> squirrels to electricity. c
>
>
> “…even a modest house required at least twelve tons of wood…..the
> average seventeenth-century New England house consumed fifteen
> cords, or 1,920 cubic feet, of wood per year, meaning that a town
> of two hundred homes depended on the deforestation of as many as
> seventy-five acres per year.”
>
coal... takes a while... I'm gonna go back to reading about the Buffalo
Creek Flood, ][<
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