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What are renewable and non-renewable resources?

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Renewable resources are resources that can be replaced as fast as we use them. (sunlight, wind power, water, olive oil).

Non-renewable resources are resources that cannot be replaced as fast as we use them. (coal, gold, oil, natural gas, diamonds).

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They're words that refer to how easy/difficult it is to obtain more of the material. Wind power and solar power are regarded as renewable because it really doesn't matter how much you use, there will be more tomorrow.

On the other hand, once you burn coal, it's gone. Coal is therefore a non-renewable resource.

Renewable resources is a natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is used and Non-renewable is a resource that forms at a much slower rate than the rate at which it is used.
Renewable is anything like wind, sun or wave power. The source of the power won't run out. Non-renewable energy is oil, gas and coal. These resources will eventually run out, at least to the point at which they will become too difficult to mine and unworthwhile.

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