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

So far there is only three sources of baseload electricity coal, some gas, nuclear and hydro.

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

If all of the electricity you used in your lifetime was nuclear, the amount of waste that would be added up would fit in a Coke can.

Because remember, this is what drives the prosperity in the developing world in the villages and in the cities.

The large coal fired power station we're building at King's North, and of course the exciting news that only today, only this week, Britain's only manufacturer of wind turbines has been forced to close.

Geologists scoured America.

This photo shows an animal popping its head out at sunset off the coast of Florida.

Two terawatt hours, it's roughly half what the U.S. solar industry produced last year.

The coal was glowing in the fire.

Traditionally utilities build a lot of giant coal and nuclear plants and a bunch of big gas plants and maybe a little bit of efficiency renewables.

We're often told though that only coal and nuclear plants can keep the lights on, because they're 24 7, whereas wind and solar power are variable, and hence supposedly unreliable.

I ran like lightning.

I ran as fast as lightning.

Coal is a fossil fuel.

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

That happens to be the same amount of solar cell capacity that the world can now make every year a number that goes up 60 or 70 percent a year.

Here's a piece of coal.

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

Yeah. I believe we don't really appreciate what we have, and I only speak for myself.

Coal. Hint of silt.

And these prices are actually with clean electrons.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

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?

Coal dust.

More coal doctor.

So what do such savings mean for the electricity that is three fifths used in motors?

Bioenergy is oil.

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.

All the world's photovoltaic solar panels generate as much electricity as two coal power plants.

Should we allow the same mistake to happen again?

That's a big investment for a community.

Let's talk a little bit about how nuclear fission works.

This has to be a bridge to the point where you can get to wind, to the point where you can get to solar, to the point where you can get to nuclear and hopefully you won't build the next nuclear plant on a beautiful seashore next to an earthquake fault.

The coal is burning.

Massive coal reserves.

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

He finished it as quick as lightning.

Power it generates heat,

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

While you're waiting around for your nuclear, you have to run the regular electric power grid, which is mostly coal in the United States and around the world.

Shale is an exceptionally poor fuel, pound for pound containing about one third the energy of a box of breakfast cereal.

The coal belt in Northern China,