Oil is a problem, and coal is the most serious problem.

Further on, he came to understand the coal, the use of the coal, and he used coal, still, again, burning.

And these prices are actually with clean electrons.

They substituted coal for oil.

So instead of using carbon from oil for synthetic processes, we have the chance of using carbon and capturing it back from the atmosphere, converting that into biopolymers or other products.

Here's a piece of coal.

We have used up the coal.

We have used our ration of coal for the week.

Coal. Hint of silt.

Coal is a fossil fuel.

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

I won't order coal for the boiler until next week.

Coal dust.

English economist William Stanley Jevons realised that Better steam engines made coal a more cost effective fuel source, which led to the use of more steam engines, which increased total coal consumption.

Bioenergy is oil.

Conservation will save you money, but it alone won't save the planet.

We have used up the coal.

When that gas blows up, people die.

But here's how the whole thing fits together.

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,

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?

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

Geologists scoured America.

The coal is burning.

Massive coal reserves.

A crow is as black as coal.

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

There was not a skitch of dust on anything!

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

The coal in the stove is burning.

Much of the high quality anthracite coal is gone,

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

Of those, only nuclear and hydro are green.

They burned some coal.

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

it's a hot coal.

This country is rich in coal.

One of the coal industry's ads around Christmas was this one.

And so the question is Can you actually get that to zero?

At the Headwaters itself,

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.