Coal is a fossil fuel.

Without it, we'd be in serious trouble.

and food into people.

We've talked about the soil erosion.

Linear take, make, waste.

The only reason modern agriculture can get away with killing the life in the soil is through another use of fossil fuel.

We now rely on distant countries for basic necessities.

We're running out of fresh water.

The world runs on fossil fuel.

Now there's no question about it at all we will only solve the problem of replacing fossil fuels with technology.

I made a promise that the next time I would fly around the world, it would be with no fuel, independent from fossil energies, in order to be safe, not to be threatened by the fuel gauge.

Fossil fuel prices shot through the roof.

Electric cars run on electricity.

Improvement of natural energy technology

The continent is abundant in fossil fuels.

What is life after fossil fuels going to be like?

So, the idea is that if we fly around the world in a solar powered airplane, using absolutely no fuel, nobody ever could say in the future that it's impossible to do it for cars, for heating systems, for computers, and so on and so on.

But I also am in the fueling business.

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

This vast continent is abundant in fossil fuels.

As the pressure grew, so did the heat, until a chemical reaction transformed the organics into hydrocarbon fossil fuels

Fossil fuels won't be available forever.

Another motivation, of course, is climate change.

like oil, coal or natural gas.

Imagine if we said, Oh yes, we can get off fossil fuels.

It's chemically fueled.

Suburbia, and many communities were designed on the assumption of plentiful oil and energy.

Fossil fuels are abundant in that vast continent.

They know perfectly well, but they have no other choice.

Other renewables only generate 2.5 .

China is building nuclear power stations. Everybody is.

This is called energy density.

My visit to Ireland has given me a lot to think about.

Like professor Kanisawa,

This stove burns oil.

This stove uses kerosene.

This includes the production of electricity, the extraction of fossil fuels, and the manufacturing of all manner of goods, from microchips, to paper, to blimps.

Because of course all of that import has to come by way of fossil fuelled vehicles of one kind or another, whether it's ships or airplanes.

Carbon dioxide is a gas that is produced every time a fuel such as coal, oil, or natural gas is burned.

Through the magic of diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate I'm ready right now to blow you all skyhigh.

Petrol is no longer a cheap fuel.

One unit like this is an energy unit of fossil fuel oil, coal or gas.

A lot of environmentalists who are always trying to drive us towards using less energy, because all that energy's coming from the consumption of fossil fuel.

Petroleum was replacing coal as fuel.

Conventional farmers use chemical fertilizers made from fossil fuels that they mix with the dirt to make plants grow.