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

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

Bioenergy is oil.

Hands weathered and worn and proud of it.

Coal is a fossil fuel.

If we burn fuels such as coal, oil and gas, they give off various gases.

Geologists scoured America.

As of 2007, coal generates 48.5 of U.S. electricity.

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

The coal belt in Northern China,

This is regularly several hundred parts per million.

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

Of those, only nuclear and hydro are green.

in my treasure chest, under the castle, with my pet dragon, Gus.

But I also am in the fueling business.

Coal is chemically allied to diamonds.

Wherever I'm needed, brother.

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?

But that's the sound of clean coal technology.

Will create carbonic acid gas

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

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

And so far there are only three major sources of that coal and gas, hydro electric, which in most places is maxed out and nuclear.

One of the questions from the audience is, with fracking and the natural gas process, what about the problem of methane leaking from that, methane being a worse global warming gas than CO2?

Let me tell you a little bit about this chemistry of oil.

Here's a piece of coal.

There's some questions as to what you should be doing with this stuff.

It leaves 25 or 30 percent for oil, gas, coal, nuclear, or whatever.

If the end game is global warming, they're doing great.

Coal. Hint of silt.

When that gas blows up, people die.

Coal powered industrial revolution in this country oil, gas, sorry.

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.

If they did, we would be shutting down all of our coal and gas plants based on radioactivity alone.

And you end up with the single largest source of carbon emissions, which are coal fired gas plants.

The coal is burning.

Massive coal reserves.

This isn't Volvos this is volcanoes.

Like professor Kanisawa,

Give me some sense of the numbers of new coal fire generating plants.

But the difference is, on Earth, most of the carbon has been leeched over time out of the atmosphere, deposited in the ground as coal, oil, natural gas, etc.

Because if coal turns out to be concentrated plant life, the reason why you may get a differential in gas output between one mine and another the reason why one mine may blow up and another one may not blow up may be because there's stuff eating that stuff and producing gas.