Ghosts of old miners?

Al Gore This is the source of much of the coal in West Virginia.

We already have some indicators of productivity on this stuff.

However there is a political battle in our country.

I went to prison difficult.

Here's a mineral.

Have you ever tried spreading the Good Word? You mean, down in the coal mines?

Two canaries in the coal mine.

Wherever I'm needed, brother.

Coal is a fossil fuel.

He worked in the coal mine till it closed. And her?

Here's a piece of coal.

And as we sit, exchanging free ideas with each other, there are still people mining coal in order to power the servers, extracting the minerals to make all of those things.

When this happens, they're compressed under tons of pressure, and turned into carbon based fossil fuels

Let's go to the mines, far from here.

Coal. Hint of silt.

(Laughter) You eat certain things, you produce a lot of gas.

When that gas blows up, people die.

I started my journey 30 years ago.

West Virginia.

This is the story of how Harriet came to pay attention.

Now, what does this have to do with energy?

Coal dust.

More coal doctor.

Bioenergy is oil.

Pennsylvania and West Virginia and other states are heavily mined.

Damn it, Derek, I'm a coal miner, not a professional film and television actor.

And also biggest coal mine here.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

The coal is burning.

Massive coal reserves.

This happened around Christmas.

Until you find some tylium ore.

Are they running Star Trek on oil sands? No. You don't see any oil refineries on

You had to go poncing off to Barnsley.

And does nuclear really compete with coal?

The thread that links them all our addiction to carbon based fuels,

The coal belt in Northern China,

The argument that it's a bridge fuel makes sense, because the amount of CO2 per unit of energy is lower than oil and coal, correct?

Tungsten carbide drills! What the bloody hell's tungsten carbide drills?

Wyler City, a rugged frontier town in the mining country of Northern Montana.

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

They substituted coal for oil.

Geologists scoured America.

But in the meantime, for the next decade at least, the name of the game is hydrocarbons.