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- adjective Alternative spelling of
nonrenewable .
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Examples
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First, oil is a non-renewable resource and its supply is limited.
Blue Bayou Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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Let's continue to exploit the natural resources of your state, be dependent on non-renewable energy sources, kill off species, and destroy the planet, whatever gets more money to Alaska, a state about which you don't seem to care anyway, you quitter ...
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Only solar or wind seem to be useful and practical sources of non-renewable and non-polluting of energy.
Economics of Hydrogen, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Unemployment benefits would be set as a Cost-of-Living benefit geared to the expense of the Country to which the Immigrants are returned; then only for an non-renewable number of Weeks.
Immigration Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As for non-renewable natural resources (minerals), the trend for the last few thousand years has been downward.
Limits to Growth?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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However, doesn't using atomic power use up non-renewable energy?
Economics of Hydrogen, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I understand that it is not polluting, but won't the processes needed to obtain it be polluting and also, except for atomic, use up non-renewable energy sources?
Economics of Hydrogen, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Eliminate lifetime tenure for federal judges in favor of non-renewable 15-year terms for all federal judges.
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That $40 appears unreasonably low when the consumers assume that the commodity is scarce, non-renewable and no reasonable alternatives exist.
A Glimmer of Hope on Oil, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One technical aspect of water use that I think is overlooked is that water isn't neccessarily a non-renewable resource.
Water as a Private Good, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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