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Science 5: That Took More Energy Than I Thought 5 Views


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Save a dead dinosaur: switch to renewable energy.

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Transcript

00:13

We use a lot of fossil fuels in our day to day life no we don't spend [woman burning a marshmellow on an oil barrel on fire]

00:18

entire afternoons burning crude oil in our backyard come on get a new

00:22

hobby but still we use a ton to give us a sense of how much fossil fuel we

00:26

use every day let's take a look at a pretty normal activity a trip to the [woman standing in her kitchen by the fridge]

00:30

grocery store if we look over our grocery list we might find that we want

00:34

a lot of heavy stuff a gallon of milk a huge case of soda plus bags and bags of [a list of grocery items]

00:39

groceries since we'll have to carry all that home with us we might

00:42

reasonably decide to take a car to the grocery store and that's our first use [woman driving a car to the grocery store]

00:45

of fossil fuel remember the gas that runs our car comes from crude oil sure

00:50

in some cases you might be able to row a boat to get your groceries but not [a person rowing a boat to the grocery store]

00:53

everyone's lucky enough to live near a grocery store that's at the edge of a

00:56

river once we get to the grocery store we're in for more fossil fuel use [woman walking down the aisles of a grocery store]

01:00

remember a lot of fossil fuels are used to generate electricity and your local

01:04

grocery store uses a lot of electricity in a lot of ways just think about all

01:08

[arrows pointing to all electrical items in the grocery store] the electric lights that are used to illuminate each and every part of the

01:12

store and it's not just the lights that are using electricity think of all the

01:15

refrigerators and freezers that are used to keep food cool that stuff all runs on [items of groceries in a shopping cart]

01:20

electricity too which means more fossil fuels even once you have all your

01:24

groceries the use of fossil fuels isn't over yet are your groceries being bagged

01:28

up in plastic bags well surprise surprise fossil fuels are an important [all groceries bagged in plastic bags]

01:33

part of the process in making the plastic which is why we always bring a

01:36

cool reusable tote bag to the store bonus points they can show off your

01:40

personality nice oh and you also have to drive back home so once you add it all [woman driving back home from the grocery store]

01:45

up you've had quite the fossil fuel filled day let's just hope that you

01:49

bought a few sweet treats it'd be a real shame you use all those fossil fuels and

01:52

only end up with piles and piles of broccoli that's a lot of broccoli [woman in the kitchen with a huge pile of broccoli]

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