The coal belt in Northern China,

When Japan and Italy go in on the side of Germany, the U.S. embargoed oil to Japan.

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

New AlDS Cases in Africa Fall to Zero,

This country is rich in coal.

Thorium reactor that Nathan Myhrvold's involved in.

China is a leading exporter of arms.

But my subject is national security.

Coal is a fossil fuel.

We have to get off of oil purchased from the enemy.

Here's a piece of coal.

China had been the most powerful nation in the world and they came to the United States in search of coal, and they found it, and, in fact, they found lots of it right here.

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?

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

So I want you to go there.

Coal. Hint of silt.

Here is just a little bit of data.

When that gas blows up, people die.

So what did they do? They taxed the import.

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.

Bioenergy is oil.

In fact, what you're seeing here are soybean fields.

Japan imports raw materials from China and exports finished products to it.

The coal is burning.

Massive coal reserves.

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

Paul Ryan and I have 5 steps.

They substituted coal for oil.

Geologists scoured America.

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

In 2008, two thirds of America's oil was imported.

low energy light bulbs, fibre optics and flat screen displays.

I marveled at seeing the Chinese people burning coal.

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

A crow is as black as coal.

They burned some coal.

But as you think of coal, this is what burned wheat kernels look like.

it's a hot coal.

And therefore, there was a indeed a prisoner's dilemma, which made it very difficult for an individual company, an individual exporting country to say, We are not going to continue this deadly, disastrous habit of large companies to bribe.

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

And they did things like train Americans to help protect the coal.

south korean smugglers.