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this week... is it a boat or is it a plane? i'm onboard the ferry that can fly. why has nobody made an electric hydrofoil flying ferry before? i think the main reason is that it's freaking hard. we're in india, where solar dryers are battling food waste. and an eye in the sky on energy use. nice outfit, by the way. thanks. i've been taking the temperature with the world's thermometer to assess the climate impact of all our actions.

stockholm, capital of sweden, and a city of islands, 1a of them to be precise, which makes water transport a big thing around these parts. so today i've decided to take the ferry. but this is no ordinary ferry because this ferry... ..can fly. this is the candela p—12, the prototype of a ferry which should go into service injuly 202a. and at its cruising speed of 25 knots, narrow wings called hydrofoils, provide huge amounts of lift. in the same way that aircraft wings can get a plane off the ground,

these wings can raise the whole hull above the surface. i've started to notice more and more boats and even windsurfs and kite surfs having these foils underneath the board, so the entire thing can lift out of the water. and because hardly any of the boat is having to push through the water, it doesn't need as powerful a motor. and that means there's something else that's very special about this craft. it's electric. these small propellers are all that are needed to get the ferry up to speed and its onboard batteries give it a range of 50 nautical miles, all of which promises to make waterborne transport a whole lot cleaner and a whole lot greener. normal boats consume an awful lot of fuel and they are extremely inefficient, compared to land—based transport. and this is because the boat is trying to push its way through the water, there's a lot

of resistance, isn't there? exactly. a lot of friction in the water. you can use batteries on ferries if they run very slowly. but whenever you want to go a bit faster, a bit longer distances, then it sort of, the whole thing collapse because you could of course put in more batteries, but at the end you put in so much batteries that the boat will sink. so you have sort of a physical limit here that you can't get around. gustav says that one hour of charging will allow this ferry to run for three hours, meaning it could service commuters during the morning rush on one charge and be ready for the afternoon peak after being recharged at lunchtime. there's another advantage to being almost entirely out of the water, too. it doesn't bounce about on the waves. and i got to say, it is pretty steady. i mean, i can't tell that i'm out of the water, but i can tell i'm not feeling all the waves that i can see around. and, actually, our camera boat is using the same hydrofoil technology, so you can see that it's also out of the water,

which means he gets pretty much steady shots of us too. i mean, look at martin, he's having the time of his life out there. but whereas the c—8 speed boat is built for pleasure, leisure, and basically showing off, the p—12 ferry is being pitched as a way to make waterborne public transport competitive again, both in fuel costs and in environmental costs too — because as well as not feeling the waves, it doesn't make them either. and that's good for everything that lives here. traditional ferries creates big wakes, and when it drives in our sensitive archipelago, it's a really sensitive ecological system with marine life, and we have the birds and the fishes. it causes erosion from the shorelines. and that's a really big challenge for us. we need to reduce the wakes to be able to drive more in a sustainable way in our sensitive environment.

the principle of hydrofoiling is not that new, but it's only recently become possible to do in this way. the first reason is that we now have materials that are up to the job. gustav: you need this very thin i blades that should be super strong but very thin to not create too much drag. and typically nowadays we use carbon fibre for that, which is a perfect material, and you can build them then in fairly small volumes. otherwise you would have to rely on steel, it becomes heavy, costly to manufacture and so forth. and the second reason is all the high—end computation that's going on below deck. 0k, here's the science bit. when you raise a boat almost entirely out of the water, it becomes unstable. and that's because you've got all the weight up here above the wings that it's balancing on in the water. it's a bit like trying to balance a pencil on yourfinger — in order to keep it upright, you'd have to do a lot of that. and that's what this boat is having to do.

it's having to adjust its position hundreds of times a second to keep it perfectly balanced. you couldn't do that manually. so this thing is covered in sensors that monitor exactly what its orientation is. and then the computers are doing that compensation. and they do that by adjusting the angle of the wings in the water, again hundreds of times a second, to keep it perfectly balanced. it's the same reason why drones are able to stay stable in the air. and, in fact, on these early test flights, christian here is able to tweak and experiment with the boat's behaviour by changing the settings live on his laptop. we're turning. one of the things that you can do when you're precisely controlling the orientation of the boat at all times is you can artificially bank like this when you're turning, which is more comfortable for the passengers, because if the boat was to remain level, everyone would be pushed to one side. so this banking is artificial.

there is a limit to the size of the swell this type of craft could cope with. but on inland waterways, this technology may very well soon be making waves by not making waves. although like a lot of modern life, the smooth ride will depend on the computers and sensors doing theirjobs at all times, which is no mean feat. why has nobody made an electric hydrofoil flying ferry before? i think the main reason is that it's freaking hard. spencer laughs over 70 countries have commitments to net zero targets. some are enshrined in law. others are goals laid out in policy. large companies have also made net zero pledges.

but how do we know that they're being met? well, there's one company that might have the answer. satellites have been capturing images from space for decades. this is a radar one here. you've also got optical images like these. any cloud cover around and you won't see what's going on beneath. and you need daylight for most of these. but satellite vu has a different plan. for them, it's all about thermal imaging. engines at full power. and liftoff of transporter a. go falcon, go transporter. its first satellite, hotsat i, was launched injune on a spacex rocket flying out of california. it started sending back high resolution images to earth, its thermal sensors enabling it to trace hot and cold features down to 3.5m accuracy.

under that circle, there's a lot more than 4km. yeah. it's the culmination of years of work. we have satellite vu, the world's thermometer. literally, these are the raw images. we think we can make them a lot better. but, here, the first image we ever took was of rome. and you can see that the hot areas are in the brighter colours and the blue areas are the cooler areas of the city. this one's taken at night. and so what you can see right here is the vatican, it is very, very hot. 0k. so that building, this summer, where you remember there were big heatwaves, absorbed a lot of energy, and at night it's radiating it. hotsat i's heat maps which are still images and short videos, could have wide application but are particularly useful in climate related matters. we think every city will want this. there's a new city managers called,

uh, chief heat officers, and there's seven of them appointed around the world. and one is in athens, for example. and they are wanting this data so they can go and help keep the city cooler, to keep the stress on people less and save energy. but the bigger picture is to help monitor how companies are meeting their net zero commitments. you can look at oil storage, for example, and see how much fossil fuels are being burnt and how much are being pumped. so when people are declaring net zero or they're reducing the oil consumption, we can come and verify that that's actually occurring. 60 organisations are currently playing around with these early heat map images to see if they can be used to improve their existing climate models. hotsati was assembled by surrey satellite technology in guildford.

you get one shot at launching something like this. so how stressful is the process? yes, pretty stressful. i think it is a high—intensity business and especially - projects like this that. are very short—schedule. but it is very exciting when it does launch. | seven more satellites will be joining hotsati over the next few months. the aim is to increase the amount of data that's being collected, which is identifying temperature profiles of individual buildings, offices and factories. if we're striving to help the planet, if we're striving to get to net zero, you need this transparency of information, and we've done it.

the battle at the top of openai began with the original board decided to remove microlensing they lost confidence in his leadership. finance chief executive has resigned after pleading guilty of money laundering violations. the us justice department said the world biggest crypto current sheet exchange had help users bypass sections. it is sort of the firm to for a $4.3 billion in penalties and forfeitures. he has said he has made mistakes in stepping down was the best move for the company. scientists in scotland are using robotic subsea gliders to check a system of ocean currents the size of climate change they are monitoring the conveyor belt which regulates global temperatures by carrying warm and cool air around the world. there is some concern that the system is weakening. it

is some concern that the system is weakening-— weakening. it really helps us to go to laces weakening. it really helps us to go to places that _ weakening. it really helps us to go to places that we _ weakening. it really helps us to go to places that we may _ weakening. it really helps us to go to places that we may be - weakening. it really helps us to go to places that we may be not - weakening. it really helps us to go to places that we may be not get l weakening. it really helps us to go| to places that we may be not get to like in the winner and they can stay out for months at a time whereas on the ship you are time—limited. food wastage is a huge problem across the globe, and in india this is compounded by the fact that cold storage facilities can be few and far between. but one of this year's earthshot prize winners is a startup working on a solution. nikhil inamdar went to find out more. here's a shocking statistic. more than a third of all fruit and vegetables grown in india end up in landfills like these. but across some 400 villages in the western part of the country, these solar—powered dryers, all operated by women, are now tackling the challenge head on.

these are built by s4s technologies, a startup that won the prestigious earthshot prize for climate impact this year. so this isn't exactly a high—tech device at all, with any complex technology, electronics or chips. but these dryers expand the life cycle of basic perishables, like onions, for instance, or tomatoes that would have otherwise rotted. it's a frugal, low—cost, climate—friendly solution to preserving second—grade produce that normally doesn't find a market. they're also a cheap alternative to expensive cold storage facilities, which are few and far between in these rural areas. solar drying is known since ages, the open sun drying... shital somani is one of the co—founders of the startup that makes these dryers. so can you explain how exactly this works? so in the solar dryer, basically, we use the solar energy to convert in the heat form and give that heat to the product. so when we say about the heat,

the heat is from this surface, which is a food—grade insulated black metallic surface. it is giving the heat from the bottom to the product. at the same time, when the air enters from this aspect, we close the dryer, that air also carries the moisture away from the product. and third is the solar radiation, which are falling from this top surface on the product. and all these three modes of heat transfer helps to remove the moisture from the product. keeping the tech simple and low—cost has allowed s4s to onboard thousands of women entrepreneurs to do thisjob. it's also been a gamechanger for the local farmers. at the crack of dawn, shivaji pawar is sorting his onion harvest to be sent to the drying facility. translation: onion prices are very volatile. _ when the cost of transport is more than the cost of production, i used to just throw away the crop. many times, the lower—grade

crop wouldn't get sold. nearly half of what i had grown would rot. but now all of it gets picked up at the farm gate, and my income has gone up substantially. once dried, the produce comes to this factory, which processes it further into packaged food that's sold to big companies and restaurants. the farm—to—factory chain gives growers an assured market and helps cut middlemen. can you talk a little bit about the various levels at which you're creating impact? we are creating impact at the three main levels. first is the food wastage, where we are reducing the food wastage by converting this b or c—grade material into the value—added products, that is the first level. second, we are giving these dryers, like most of the dryers, 100% of the dryers, are used by the women entrepreneurs, the women farmers. and the third is the carbon emission. as this technology is a solar—based technology, so we are reducing on the carbon emission part. right now, we are at 2,000 women farmers.

but we can see, like, in three years' time, we can reach to 10,000 women farmers. and the farmers network that we are building, which is the direct or the indirect farmers network, we can see clearly one million farmers' lives we can impact. india is vast and diverse. identifying the right produce in the right geography and creating a market for it is a challenge. but solutions like these, if scaled up, can help millions of india's poorest farmers reduce waste and grow their incomes. in the race to reduce emissions, plans to build wind farms are skyrocketing. but while the electricity that they generate is clean, the green industry has a waste problem. and now the race is on to try and solve that, as adrienne murray has been finding out.

these towering machines are getting ever more powerful. nowhere is that more on show than at this test centre in northern denmark. it is the latest and biggest turbines that they have, the prototypes. this is like seeing and testing the future right here. the largest, a staggering 280m high, has broken world records for the most power. and experts say they're only getting bigger. this race towards bigger and bigger turbines will continue for a while more. we are looking into the possibility of creating a new test centre in denmark, and the design turbine we are designing for is 450m from ground to highest tip. by 2030, wind power could supply a fifth of the world's electricity. we need clean energy, but this green industry has a growing headache when it

comes to waste. turbines are built to withstand the forces of nature. they're flexible, light and...super strong. but that's also where the problem lies. when they reach the end of life, they're really hard to recycle. while the steel in the towers can be reused, the massive blades are almost indestructible. and as older models are replaced, many get dumped in landfill. by 2050, there could be 43 million tonnes of redundant blades globally that need to be dealt with. it is problematic, because we want the renewable energy to be truly sustainable, and if you have a waste material that goes to landfill, it's not truly sustainable. it's a problem players have been scrambling to figure out. and we might now have some answers. there have been creative ways

of reusing wind—turbine blades, like this bike shed. they've even been repurposed for playgrounds, bridges and building cladding. but this won't really tackle the growing volumes. one immediate solution is to chop up and finely shred them. it's burned as fuel and used as an ingredient for cement production. this us plant has already handled more than 3,500 unwanted blades. now turbine—maker siemens gamesa has had a breakthrough of its own. it manufactures some of the world's biggest blades at its site here in aalborg. and while this one looks like any other, it can be recycled. it all comes down to a resin called epoxy, which acts like a really strong super glue,

binding together the fibreglass. usually, this is incredibly tough to break down, but not here. we changed something in the backbone of the chemistry. this blade has actually gone through our recycling process. and we just turned it around. here you can see all the different glass layers that were placed during the production of the blade and how they are separating from the blade. to do that, it needs to be soaked in a big bath of mild acetic acid. after a few hours and 80 degrees celsius, then you get the result that you see here. so it's just like vinegar in a supermarket? exactly. exactly like you would make pickles or descale your coffee pot. i can actually smell that. there is a scent of vinegar coming from the blade. this won't tackle today's waste, but when these blades retire, the materials could go into making other things. it could be furniture, suitcases, you could use it for surfboard manufacturing. ok, yeah!

so in general, consumer goods. but not. . . new turbines. not as it is right now, but i'm never going to say never. so far, only a small number have been installed, but they'll soon be used for bigger offshore projects here in europe. at this research lab at aarhus university, scientists are taking a different approach. this was part of a wind turbine blade that was decommissioned. basically, we put the chip in there and then we add a catalyst. they've discovered a chemical process that gently breaks apart the components. precise details are still under wraps, but it turns out it's relatively simple. these are the glass fibres which come apart a little. yes, i can see those. they're not bound together any more. so you can see it's very clearly separated into its different components. yes. that means the fibres and even that

tough epoxy resin could be recovered and potentially reused. this has been quite remarkable. we thought that these materials were extremely strong and indestructible. now we've found a chemical process that can actually chew its way right through the epoxy. and in theory, it could work on all kinds of turbine blades already out there. what we find exciting is we're sort of the first to be able to do that. there are potentials in recycling such very tough materials, not only confined to the wind turbine industry. there's the aeronautic industry, space industry, cars. this technology still needs to make the leap from a test tube to the real world, but with new solutions on the table, perhaps this growing waste problem could be headed off before it gets too big. and that's it for our round—up of some of the latest sustainability stories. hope you've enjoyed them. from sweden and from me

and my electric ferry, thanks for watching and, uh... ..i wonder what this does. good evening. high pressure has brought a welcome change to much drier weather for most this weekend, but there are still numerous flood warnings in force, around 170 during the day today. as ever, there is more detail on those on the weather website, including a warning for ice for the night ahead. but the high pressure that has brought the drier weather this weekend is staying put, as you can see, through the working week. there will be quite a keen wind in the south accentuating the chill, but for most, little rain in the forecast. it looks much drier, therefore, but it is already colder

and it will remain so. and we've had some stubborn fog this weekend. in fact, during sunday across parts of northern ireland, scotland, northern england and wales, and indeed that will thicken up as we go through the coming night, there could be the odd pocket further south as well. what we will find is more showers coming into east anglia and the south—east. widely frosty i think even where we see the towns and cities just above freezing, the ground will still turn potentially frosty and icy because we have had a lot of rain. but overnight we are going to see those showers, and into monday, popping up across the east anglia region and the south—east of england, and they will be snow even at lower levels, it is cold air. with a few centimetres potentially over the downs, that will make things very slippery potentially because they could wash off the salt. ice is certainly an issue in the south and east but also elsewhere because it has been so damp. the fog again for central and southern scotland, northern ireland, northern parts of england and wales, it might well linger. but we will see some brightness

and some sunshine as well. the wind is a little stronger again across southern parts compared to today, pushing wintry showers across other southern counties through the day. and making it feel colder still. we will see a smattering of snow in those showers further south, particularly over the hills and the channel islands. into tuesday, the high pressure system stays towards the north, those keen east winds or north—east winds continue in the south. but that might benefit, pushing the showers out of the way and breaking the cloud up a bit more for more sunshine. but still again plenty of it for north—west scotland, northern ireland, western england and wales, more in the south. might pick up a bit more cloud across north—eastern coasts but as you can see temperatures below par. and as we go through the rest of the week, it stays largely dry but it is still pretty chilly.

live from london. this is bbc news. prime minister sheikh hasina has won a fourth consecutive term in an election that was boycotted by the opposition. an upsurge in violence in gaza,

with at least 70 people reportedly killed in the jabalia refugee camp. speaking in qatar, the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has said israel must do more to protect civilians in gaza. and hollywood rolls out the red carpet for one of its biggest nights — the golden globe awards. hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. let's start this hour in bangladesh, where prime minister sheikh hasina has won the general elections. latest results show her party, the awami league winning 152 seats and getting a clear majority. voting took place amid tight security after violence on the eve of the poll. at least 14 polling

stations were set on fire. this election results gives prime minister sheikh hasina her