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Non-renewable resources are things that can only be used once, like coal, oil and natural gas, (because it will take millions of years for them to be produced again). When these are burned, they let off carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.

Renewable resources are things that we can use, and they will still be there tomorrow to be used again. Sunlight and the power of the wind, the waves and the ocean tides are all renewable. We can use them today to generate electricity, and then do the same tomorrow, and probably for ever. Unlike the fossil fuels above, they have no carbon emissions once they are set up.

What they have in common is that they can all be used to produce electricity to power our cities, factories and transport.

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