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

Coal is a fossil fuel.

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

This is called energy density.

Without it, we'd be in serious trouble.

and food into people.

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

This stove burns oil.

This stove uses kerosene.

We've talked about the soil erosion.

Linear take, make, waste.

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

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.

Petrol is no longer a cheap fuel.

We're running out of fresh water.

The world runs on fossil fuel.

This heating system burns oil.

The source of fuel crude oil.

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

Petroleum was replacing coal as fuel.

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.

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

But I also am in the fueling business.

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

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

All the farms I know, including organic ones, are utterly dependent on fossil fuel, particularly oil.

Every time you do so, some of the energy contained in the original fuel is lost.

This vast continent is abundant in fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels won't be available forever.

Another motivation, of course, is climate change.

Intrinsically safe environments

We've seen the first form of solar energy that's beat the hegemony of fossil fuels in the form of wind here in the Great Plains, and so that hegemony is leaving.

like oil, coal or natural gas.

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

It's chemically fueled.

And every single oil is different when it hits water.

The global economy currently depends on endless growth, demanding an increasing supply of cheap energy.

Fossil fuels are abundant in that vast continent.

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