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

Bioenergy is oil.

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

Geologists scoured America.

Coal is a fossil fuel.

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

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.

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

This is regularly several hundred parts per million.

Hands weathered and worn and proud of it.

Of those, only nuclear and hydro are green.

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 I also am in the fueling business.

Here's a piece of coal.

Coal is chemically allied to diamonds.

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

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

Will create carbonic acid gas

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

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

Coal. Hint of silt.

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

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.

Coal dust.

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

When that gas blows up, people die.

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

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

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.

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

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

Now, what does this have to do with energy?

More coal doctor.

The coal belt in Northern China,

We inject our own aerosols into the atmosphere, and we have trace gases, and not just carbon dioxide it's methane, ozone, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen.

Each cylinder is about 10 percent ancient air, a pristine time capsule of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide all unchanged from the day that snow formed and first fell.

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

They substituted coal for oil.

The coal is burning.

Massive coal reserves.

A crow is as black as coal.

carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and electrons it can use them to go through the rest of the steps of photosynthesis to transform that original carbon dioxide gas into a simple carbohydrate called glucose,

This isn't Volvos this is volcanoes.

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