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The Chemistry of Cookery XVII (1884) (wikisource.org)
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>I here assume that Rumford's directions for the construction of kitchen fireplaces and economy of fuel are carried out. We are in these matters still a century behind his arrangements of 1790, and nothing short of a coal-famine will punish and cure our criminal extravagance.

Looks like for quite some time the high energy density of fossil fuel exacerbates the amount of energy wasted.




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