GEMET
General
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Environmental
Thesaurus
non-renewable energy resource
Definition

Non-renewable resources have been built up or evolved over a geological time-span and cannot be used without depleting the stock and raising questions of ultimate exhaustibility, since their rate of formation is so slow as to be meaningless in terms of the human life-span.

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Scope note

Scope note is not available.

Concept URL: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/5684