West Virginia.

(Laughter) You eat certain things, you produce a lot of gas.

Al Gore This is the source of much of the coal in West Virginia.

We already have some indicators of productivity on this stuff.

And then I asked myself the question.

I went to prison difficult.

Here's a mineral.

Have you ever tried spreading the Good Word? You mean, down in the coal mines?

Two canaries in the coal mine.

This must be some kind of conveyor belt to get the ore from the mine here into this cracking plant here.

Wherever I'm needed, brother.

Ghosts of old miners?

Mining settlement.

Coal is a fossil fuel.

Like mining colonies.

And the reason I was interested in getting water is because water which goes through mines becomes kind of acidic and will start picking up, dissolving the minerals from the mine.

He worked in the coal mine till it closed. And her?

Get in the mine. Hurry, get in the mine, and stay there.

Here's a piece of coal.

They're kin to me.

In a crater, on a ast'roid excavating for a mine,

Listen to mine.

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

Let's go to the mines, far from here.

Coal. Hint of silt.

This mine will close down next month.

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.

Hurry into the mine.

When that gas blows up, people die.

I started my journey 30 years ago.

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.

Pennsylvania and West Virginia and other states are heavily mined.

Damn it, Derek, I'm a coal miner, not a professional film and television actor.

And also biggest coal mine here.

So we went to meet them.

How's the gas mine?

Everyone get into the mine.

The coal is burning.

Massive coal reserves.

Until you find some tylium ore.

Are they running Star Trek on oil sands? No. You don't see any oil refineries on