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Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) are non-renewable.

They took millions and millions of years to form and are being used up in a time scale of hundreds of years. When they are gone, it will take millions of years again for the processes that create coal and oil to happen.

When we use them, they are gone. This is the opposite of renewable sources of energy, like wind and solar, which can be used over and over.

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