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Hopi Indians use coal for cooking, heating, and firing pottery.
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In Baltimore, Maryland the street lights are lit with light made from coal.
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Charles Brush, American, builds first modern automatically operating wind turbine.
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Alcock and Brown fly a gas fueled powered airplane across he Atlantic Ocean.
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The first nuclear reactor begins operation in Richland, Washington.
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D.M. Chaplin, C.S. Fuller, and G.L. Pearson invent solar voltaic cells.
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The Voyager 2 spacecraft's electricity is generated by the decay of plutonium pellets.
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Burlington Electric (Vermont) built a 50-megawatt, wood-fired plant with electricity production as the primary purpose. This plant was the first of several built since 1984.
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Chicago adds hydrogen cell buses to mass transit.
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First Solar began production at the Perrysburg, Ohio, photovoltaic manufacturing plant. Each year, it could produce enough solar panels to generate 100 megawatts of power.
