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We can probably say that oxidation of solid carbon is the reaction that mankind exploited earliest, since men learned to light up a fire. Over the ages combustion of wood first and of fossil fuels later, has continued to sustain the energy demand and the progress of human society and, despite the efforts of the scientific community to find alternative routes for energy production, a significant fraction of the global energy demand is likely to remain dependent on combustion of solid carbon also in the near future.