How did imperialism during this period become more efficient in exploiting new types of energy?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. New energy resources
1. timber from deforestation made an enormous contribution
2. oil from aggressive whaling by European and Japanese seamen
3. cottonseed oil and rapeseed oil in Japan came into use as oil-lamp fuel
in the early 1600s
4. extracting peat to be burned as fuel from the bogs of Holland became a
major industry
5. people shifted to coal, mined in increasing quantities in Great Britain,
Germany, and the southern Netherlands
a. Londoners in the mid-sixteenth century burned more than
20,000 tons of coal annually
b. miners in Kyushu, Japan, began to make a success of marketing
coal: to peasants for fuel, to refiners of salt and sugar
c. coal was abundant in China, but the market for it remained
static and wood and charcoal were used more