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It’s a growing source of energy that could replace fossil fuels in some industry and transportation uses.

Amanda, 62, said: "We're the fossils now and we want the chance to make some memories of our own before we get too creaky."

A government spokesperson said the chemicals industry was paying the fossil fuel penalty, with wholesale gas costs remaining 75% above their levels before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation.

That coincided with rising industrialisation, when burning of fossil fuels, particularly coal, began to heat up our atmosphere, but it's hard to disentangle natural and human causes that far back in time.