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Nature Geoscience 1, 283–286 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo195

Thirst for energy

Carey W. King , Ashlynn S. Holman & Michael E. Webber

Water and solar energy enable trees and plants to grow today, just as hundreds of millions of years ago. Creation of the deposits of biomass that became fossil fuels depended on these two resources.