Does All Energy Come With A Price? (VIDEO)

This Is How Fracking Works, In Cake Form

Does all energy come with a price?

TakePart Live's Jacob Soboroff tackles the complicated environmental costs of different energy sources in the latest installment in the outlet's TPL Disrupt series. In the episode, Soboroff speaks with the organizers of an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo, a student in Los Angeles who lives next to an urban fracking site and an environmentalist baker that uses a layer cake to describe the controversial extraction process.

Watch the video above, and skip ahead to the 4:07 mark to watch the fracking cake demonstration, flaring included. You can head on over to TakePart Live to see more.

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