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Waiting around for more things to die so we can keep harvesting oil seems a little dreary, don't you think?
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- 00:00
You may have heard of fossil
- 00:14
fuels before But what exactly do those words mean You
- 00:17
know that fossils a k a the preserved remains of [Fossils appear]
- 00:20
living things that died a long long time ago Like
- 00:22
the dinosaur skeleton museum Also now that fuel it's just
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- 00:26
that our parents pumped into our car's gas tank Some [Fuel pump attached to car]
- 00:29
are fossil fuels Just a bunch of really old bones
- 00:31
you used to gas up the car It seems like
- 00:33
it be pretty tough to shove all those bones into [Bone shoved into gas tank]
- 00:36
a tiny hole of a gas tank But believe it
- 00:38
or not that's actually kind of close to the truth
- 00:40
Except riel Fossil fuels don't get you in trouble with
- 00:43
any museum directors They generally prefer that dinosaur leg stay [Boy running with Dinosaur bone]
- 00:47
on this play rather than going in people's cars Fossil
- 00:49
fuels begin as living things Three hundred million years ago
- 00:53
there were all sorts of different plants and animals covering
- 00:55
the planet Fortunately from time to time ah whole bunch [Dinosaurs on Earth]
- 00:58
of these plants and animals would die Not even the
- 01:00
greatest dinosaur doctors of the time could keep everyone living
- 01:02
forever They were just dinosaurs not miracle workers When some
- 01:06
of these plants and animals died Their bodies ended up
- 01:08
being trapped really far underground deep below the surface of [Dinosaurs bones underground]
- 01:11
the earth those bodies decomposed and turned into different kinds
- 01:14
of fossil fuels coal it's natural gas and oil Thes
- 01:18
fossil fuels can then be dug up and used to
- 01:20
power all sources stuff from power plants to cars So
- 01:24
even though most dinosaurs could never drive a car they [Rex driving a car]
- 01:26
can definitely helps power What's stubby arms don't matter when
- 01:29
your fossil fuel One important thing to know about fossil
- 01:31
fuels is that they're non renewable Resource is of energy
- 01:35
Unlike solar power and wind power which collect energy over [Dino discussing fossil fuels]
- 01:38
and over again a non renewable sources of energy can
- 01:41
only be used once if you burn a bunch of
- 01:44
coal it's gone as soon as it's done burning not [Bus appears on farm]
- 01:47
coming back any time soon unless you happen to have
- 01:50
an extra three hundred million years to wait for some
- 01:52
new fossil fuels to form But we really hope you
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