Oldest alternative fuel
- Who
- Unknown
- What
- First
- Where
- Europe
- When
- 01 January 0001
In medieval Europe, around 1500 AD, the overuse of wood for burning began to lead to general shortages due to deforestation. Around this period Europeans started to shift to burning coal instead of wood, the first time in human history that an alternative fuel was adopted because of shortages of conventional fuel.