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Global Energy Resources With reference to a range of national energy strategies, discuss the costs and benefits of renewable and non-renewable energy resources Environmental resources are commonly divided into those considered to be renewable and non-renewable. Renewable resources are those which naturally regenerate with a human defined time span to provide new supplies of those resources. Non-renewable, such as minerals and land, have taken millions of years to form and therefore in human terms, are fixed in the supply available. In reality, however the distinction is not as clear cut and resources are increasingly being classified in terms of degree of renewability within what Rees sees as a 'use-renewability continuum'. At one extreme of the continuum are infinitely renewable resources, irrespective of how it is used by humans, e.g. solar energy and tidal power. At the other extreme are resources which, as they are used, cannot be replaced, e.g. fossil fuels. In between...

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