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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
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Biologist
Ecologist
Environmentalist
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Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
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