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Oil may be depletable in theory, but because of exploration and better technology reserves have nearly doubled since 1970.

Resources for human consumption are easily depletable in tropical rainforests.

Its home range may be large in order to provide a sufficient amount of easily depletable fruit and prey foraging sites over the long term.

"If I can get them to understand that crude oil and natural gas are depletable, they can almost pass the class on that alone."

Many of them are based on resources that are renewable rather than depletable and that emit less pollution than gasoline.

The body of the player character houses an exchangeable (and depletable) battery that powers various body functions put there by the experimenters.

Some non-tariff trade barriers are expressly permitted in very limited circumstances, when they are deemed necessary to protect health, safety, sanitation, or depletable natural resources.

Fundamentally, transitioning from oil to coal or natural gas for transportation fuels production is a transition from one inherently depletable geologically limited resource to another.

However, much of the critique towards CCS is that it may strengthen the dependency on depletable fossil fuels and environmentally invasive coal mining.

But a solar system incurs no costs for acid rain, global warming or other pollution or reliance on depletable natural resources, domestic or imported, he pointed out.

So as not to use too much wood, a depletable resource, the bare, though polished, stained and artistically finished concrete also makes up the floor of the living and dining rooms.

Since the Trust's assets are considered a depletable resource, its dividend payments are not taxed at the regular dividend rate, but rather as return of capital instead of return on investment.

Excluded from the definition are the natural resources (that is, depletable resources, such as mineral deposits and petroleum; renewable resources, such as timber; and the outer-continental shelf resources) related to land.

A key feature which helps to make these energy sources resilient is that "they are renewable: they harness the energy of sun, wind, water, or farm and forestry wastes, rather than that of depletable fuels."