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Quotation from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

“Water will be the coal of the future.”

Jules Verne (spoken by Cyrus Harding)

The Mysterious Island, Part II, Ch. 11, trans. W. H. G. Kingston (1875)

Portrait of Jules Verne

Harding predicts that water decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen will replace coal as fuel.

Citation: "Water will be the coal of the future." — Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island, Part II, Ch. 11, trans. W. H. G. Kingston (1875). (id the-mysterious-island-q1)

Portrait: Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Jules Verne, Nadar, Public domain.

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