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Question
What is a source of energy? What are the two main categories of the sources of energy?
Solution
A source of energy is that which provides a required amount of energy in a convenient form for a long time.
There are basically two types of sources of energy:
a) Renewable source of energy
b) Non-renewable source of energy
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