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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
Anthropologist
Author
Biologist
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Farmer
Naturalist
Psychologist
Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
Years
Hundreds
Provide
Using
Clean
Air
Amount
Compressed
Technology
Amounts
Energy
Limitless

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