The coal belt in Northern China,

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

This country is rich in coal.

Thorium reactor that Nathan Myhrvold's involved in.

Here's a piece of coal.

They want to achieve that level of prosperity and they're being supported by Peabody Coal.

China had been the most powerful nation in the world and they came to the United States in search of coal, and they found it, and, in fact, they found lots of it right here.

Coal. Hint of silt.

Coal is a fossil fuel.

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

Let me say that again.

So I want you to go there.

Coal dust.

English economist William Stanley Jevons realised that Better steam engines made coal a more cost effective fuel source, which led to the use of more steam engines, which increased total coal consumption.

Bioenergy is oil.

When that gas blows up, people die.

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

Now, what does this have to do with energy?

More coal doctor.

Paul Ryan and I have 5 steps.

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?

The reason why is because of the radioactive releases from coal.

They substituted coal for oil.

Geologists scoured America.

The coal is burning.

Massive coal reserves.

A crow is as black as coal.

I marveled at seeing the Chinese people burning coal.

But I brought along here a lump of coal right here, one lump of coal.

And they did things like train Americans to help protect the coal.

Oil is a problem, and coal is the most serious problem.

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

The coal in the stove is burning.

Much of the high quality anthracite coal is gone,

But my subject is national security.

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

And that is, of course, Europe.

Of those, only nuclear and hydro are green.

They burned some coal.

But as you think of coal, this is what burned wheat kernels look like.

it's a hot coal.

One of the coal industry's ads around Christmas was this one.

And so the question is Can you actually get that to zero?

At the Headwaters itself,

Coal is not always black.