fuel. So you go from hay which you put into horses and cows and other animals to coal to wood to coal to uh oil to to gas to nuclear you get denser denser denser.You're creating more energy and you convert that energy into wealth into prosperity into hospitals into schools
plants, and also our nuclear weapons and also the sun, with chemical reactions, which are typically what we do when we burn fossil fuels-- coal , oil, natural gas-- or we metabolize our food in our own bodies.So here's a typical chemical reaction.
It would be burning coal . Coal is mostly carbon.The black circle is a carbon atom.
So roughly two a day come in. Coal is piled up into a big pile, and the coal is burned in the power plant.On the right, you see a refueling of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, now shut down, in my home state of Vermont.
But look at the situation. Coal produces something like 25 deaths per terawatt hour of electricity.Oil is down a little bit.
And it's great. It's a great kind of invention and we want to support those things, I just-- we shouldn't be giving them a lot of subsidies, I think. Coal , you have probably thousands of years left, even of known deposits.
And it's great. It's a great kind of invention and we want to support those things, I just-- we shouldn't be giving them a lot of subsidies, I think. Coal isn't a natural resource.
If you see me on the Neapolitan line at Tony's, I'm really soft on it. Coal , you know, we're the only coal oven, I think, that's out here.
So the competition for natural resources-- particularly, energy is a problem. Coal emissions in the US, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and according to the local Cambridge Clean Air Task ForceGroup, says that there are 13,000 deaths a year from respiratory illnesses caused by inhalation of small particulates, 2.5 microns in diameter and less.
And so they are desperately seeking to get new energy sources. Coal plants-- there are something like 1,400 gigawatts of coal plants in production around the world today.And although we kind of think in the US we are diminishing that number, as we pass laws and the coal plants shut here-- some of them--
We have virtual retailing right now. Coal is not free.
Considering those benefits, there's no question that thorium power offers the most economical avenue to bring on line massive amounts of new generating capacity without adding to Coal accounted for 44% of that, nuclear, as I've said, for about 20%.
trouble with most ideas is that they start out kind of like this, this is like a pile of coal ; they're ugly, they're undifferentiated, they're poorly defined, but like a pile of coal they have incredible potential.But jokingly people say, "What's the worst gift you can give to someone is a lump of coal ," because nobody wants to touch it. This is exactly like our initial idea; we know
So fundamentally these magnificent animals really are the charismatic canaries in the coal mine. Their plight is a clear warning to us that we must galvanize ourselves into action toaddress climate change not only to protect polar bears and other Arctic animals and not only to protect countless other species in ecosystems all across the globe, but ultimately
burn us in hell, he said, "In hell, it will be the not, the negative that is burning." In other words, my hand will burn from coal only because my hand is not coal . So everything in my hand that is not coal , burns.If my hand was made of coal , then you could torture me as you want, but it would not hurt me because it
like that which could have health impacts. But as far as particles breathing in the way that we do with coal plants and things like that, not really an issue. Because I remember coal plants puts stuff up very low level, basically here in the air that we breathe.This would be high, very high up, very dispersed and it would just basically be in the mix in, of real no consequence.
Democrats who were also opposed to climate action. These were not all from the Midwest, but largely from the Midwest, from coal -burning states; from states that either mine and produce coal or states that depend on coal for their electric fired electricity, excuse me, their coal -fired electricity. So, there are 25 states in the US that get 25%--I'm sorry, 50% ormore of their electricity from coal . And it's hard to tell whether those Democratic Senators are really worried about the effect on the economy of a climate bill, which they say
of them has a policy identical to that of the United Kingdom which is to maximize economic recovery I quote of coal oil and gas you can find it in in the UK's most recent energy white paper the policy is to maximize economicrecovery Co oil and gas at the same time of course to minimize the use of coal oil and gas so the policy works like
is fundamentally wet when it comes out of the ground and I think between China and India they're building 10 to 20 new coal plants a month to power their needs and China has a lot of dirty coal so what they're doing is they're justburning coal and if you've ever been to China China except during the Olympics you'll see that you can't see anything
struggling in the polls. uh there's a lot of pressure coming from members of um the coalition, the governing coalition, especially those on the far right to take a much harsher approach when it comes to Gaza. So, it's been much commented on how the uh national security minister Bengavir has just
coalesced to a level that would allow preparation in the global sense.
Coalition of Abortion Providers; Elizabeth Cavendish, then legal director for NARAL pro-choice America;
coalesce around a currency, which is a really odd thing.
coalition around organizing the black community.
coalition of companies that give 1% of their profits to the environment and also product red we all know product red you know you saw that campaign inspired
coalition of brands in London who just care about the same things and so they're contributing towards those
coalition to go out and implement the that plan and that implementation plan is called the Liv strong young adult
coalesced as a family but my parents used food as a lens as a window to explore the cultures that were all
coalition right, and yet nothing much comes of it.
coals over our head as we held our cameras he just saw us as part of the ceremony mmm although tense moments get
More coal got retired under Donald Trump from 2016 to 2020 than under Barack Obama because renewables, you know, were cheaper.
a coal miner or a farmer in the American Midwest, and, by the way, I will be talking to a lot of the latter kind of folk this year, off mic,
Wande Coal , because I think Wande Coal brought soul into what we hear and know as Afrobeats or Afro pop today.
by coal , steam power.
Look at the fuel. A coal -burning power plant, these are plants of comparable electrical power output. It burns 360 tons of coal an hour.
You saw that in the picture of the two power plants being refueled. A coal -burning power plant produces 400,000 tons of air pollutants per year. Nuclear, it's only about 6,000 tons, and they're quite benign compared to what a coal plant produces.
Nuclear, it's only about 6,000 tons, and they're quite benign compared to what a coal plant produces. A coal plant produces 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide an hour, the climate-changing greenhouse gas. Nuclear produces none. That doesn't mean nuclear has no climate impact, but it doesn't produce carbon dioxide.
Well, the nuclear plant produces more radiation than most coal plants. But coal does contain radioactive materials, uranium and its byproducts. And there are some coals , which if burned in coal -burning power plants, actually produce more radiation than do nuclear plants.
And coal restoration-- I come from Australia.
And coal mining communities might have been better off than in a way than they are now.
generational coal miner, who's now an EMT.
from coal to natural gas and renewables in energy efficiency about a third, a third, a third contributing here in the US and lots of other factors.
Anthracite coal has lots of carbon in it.
A coal canal is not separate from a regular canal.
The coal mines were closing down.
the coal into the plant.
And coal is the cheapest BTU on the planet, so they actually have a cost advantage, if you can reduce the battery cost.
massive coal -burning brick oven.
Anthracite coal was just cheap, so that's what they used in this oven, which is why that John's pizza that you have is a completely different texture,
That coal -burning oven is the pool in the backyard of the pizzeria's house.