Yes I inverted it to burning coal is called the industrial revolution because I think it’s neat way to look at it.

I’m thinking through the history of energy: We burned wood. Then we burned coal. Then we burned oil. Then we burned atoms.

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    Yeah coal has been used for millenia. Humans have been burning coal/charcoal for metalworking for millenia. Like even in the stone age we still used coal/charcoal.