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About 700,000 years ago, Homo erectus understood how to light a fire himself. About 100,000 years ago he understood that he could also use this fire to cook the meat that had been eaten raw until then. At that time, Homo erectus burned wood, oil and grease. From 900 BC the people in China burned natural gas. And much later, from the XII century in Belgium the humans burned lignite and hard coal. And then, from 1859 in Pennsylvania/USA, crude oil.
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Stan, C. (2022). The real energy guzzlers. In: Energy versus Carbon Dioxide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64162-0_9
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