Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170329:02:53:00
Start a new energy revolution, one that celebrates american production on american soil. >> joining us now, bill nye, the science guy. bill, thank you for joining us tonight. could you start with what is coal, and what is clean coal? >> coal is ancient swamp that's been dried out and compressed. so when you burn it, you are burning ancient plant material and putting carbon dioxide that's been sequestered under the earth's crust, soil, for hundreds of millions of years. you are putting it back in the atmosphere about a millimillion times faster than it was created. clean coal is -- we argue abo...