| Subject | English | Spanish |
| environ. | non-renewable energy resource | recursos energéticos no renovables |
| UN, polit. | non-renewable energy resource | recurso energético no renovable |
| environ. | non-renewable energy resource Non-renewable resources have been built up or evolved over a geological time-span and cannot be used without depleting the stock and raising questions of ultimate exhaustibility, since their rate of formation is so slow as to be meaningless in terms of the human life-span | recursos energéticos no renovable |
| environ. | non-renewable energy resources | recursos energéticos no renovable |
| environ. | non-renewable resource | recurso natural no renovable |
| environ. | Non-Renewable Resource | recurso no renovable |
| environ. | non-renewable resource | recursos no renovables |
| environ. | non-renewable resource A natural resource which, in terms of human time scales, is contained within the Earth in a fixed quantity and therefore can be used once only in the foreseeable future (although it may be recycled after its first use). This includes the fossil fuels and is extended to include mineral resources and sometimes ground water, although water and many minerals are renewed eventually | recursos no renovables |
| environ. | non-renewable resources | recursos no renovables |