he wants to remain mysterious, fearsome, strong, sometimes threatening, sometimes charming. but i couldn't see behind her match to the red prince's thoughts, november 25th on dw, the there emblems of a cleaner future. but how environmentally friendly our solar panels, the wind turbine and electric cars, really? if there's one thing, the green transition will demand above all else. it's raw materials, lots of them. but extracting resources is a dirty business, which is white plans for new mines run into fierce resistance in many places. europe wants to start sourcing many key metals and minerals from scandinavia. but is mining in norway really cleaner and what are the alternatives? these and other questions and focus this week on data science show. welcome to

tomorrow. today, the a heavy duty load or attempts 25 tons of rock into a truck in on time in western norway with a one gigantic machine. after another rumbles through a fast open cast mine, a mineral called olivine has been mind here since 1948. it contains significant amounts of magnesium and plays an important role in steel production quality and can also bind carbon dioxide or heim is the largest mining site for the mineral in the world. when the mind is one day finally tapped out here, everything will be re natured this the fiscal year. if you mind, you need to do it in ways that do a little damage to nature as possible. and before you start, you have to gain social acceptance for the idea. at the moment,

this is one of just a few minds of this size in norway. for many decades, the northern country has focused mainly on oil and gas production. now, however, interest is growing in the many other abundant natural resources beneath the ground . here, for the industry isn't that large here yet before we do have money deposit. as you see, the probably even the largest deposits are metal and rivers in europe and those are building blocks that are important to agree in transitioning your you think it's also important that when you're in europe work together to make ourselves less dependent on china, having yeah, all the jump on to, you know, china currently dominates the market for a certain valuable raw materials in an attempt to ease its dependence. europe is trying to tap more resources within its own borders, including those from norway. then finally, button motors dangerous the china has the stomach extended quite monopolies in the production of certain raw materials. and it is use these monopolies to monopolize

that entire value chain stock, so that, that has made it very difficult to alter existing value chains, home and bring green industries to europe, a ford and quite in display table. but if you're off once to implement green transitions in areas like mobility and energy supply, it will need access to the key raw materials that enabled society's will have to agree to their extraction. and at least for the time being, doing so has a big environmental impact to the residents of now started had been resisting a major mining project on the philadelphia yard for years. a company called nordic mining wants to remove the top of this mountain to mind. titanium and the mineral called rutil, which contains titanium dioxide and get to the project that were against this project because they want to cut off the summit of and get in the mountains on and are planning to dump 250000000 tons of mining sludge chemicals on heavy metals and

micro plastics directly into one of the regions. most fish rich, yours on the city, gets to fuel to the people here. few are dire consequences for the fjord, which is also an important breeding ground for cod. but they don't know exactly what to expect. it was, hey man, it's hard to say, you know, so, but it's highly likely the most of this year and you'll die. so there will be no more fish in it, in your office. but by the time we know for sure, it might be too late to f for frank. no, no, no, no. these demonstrators are shouting, let the fjord live. the attempt to provide you with a secure source of t raw materials has turned into a classic cultural battle between environment and industry and government and all that and to be so and it's, it's easy to protest against opening a new mind just like the highest but when you organize your protesters,

you can do that, you use a cellphone to do a homeless um and don't give it a 2nd side of it. it will be careful, the iron and the change they use to chain themselves, machines and protest. it comes from mine or iron or is my yeah, and yeah, and you do that. we use all these products around to get out we part and take for granted that we just have them to put the know thing in there. and they'll say i didn't after use of delays and agreeing to many conditions. nordic mining received approval to start extracting raw materials at the fjord in 2024, against the background of new geo political tensions. the project has acquired fresh importance. oil for bid out the 28th, i hope the publications and others understand that we in norway and the other northern countries must contribute to providing an important minerals for europe and the rest of the world. i do apologise now. we can't just wait for the developing world to provide us with everything that you know you to her, she and also all the minute, all anything you extracting key resources within its own borders can help europe

reduce its current dependence on the global market and establish its own production chains, but in norway mining companies 1st have to take the local residents and the environment into account. the world is hungry for sand. it's in cleaning agents, cosmetics, and every computer. we make glass from sand and mix it into concrete. but only certain types are suitable for concrete production and what's called building sound is growing scarce. are there ways to replace it in construction? the construction industry just facing a massive challenge. it's most important, raw material is growing scarce. these 2 met and want to solve the problem. and we have a global problem in the concrete sector. demand can no longer be met. we have to

take, we had in congress 90 percent of all buildings are made with at least some reinforced concrete. and a major component in that is send 200 tons on average. you go into a residential building. there are $30000.00 tons in a kilometer a free way construction projects while a 50 bill in times every year. the problem is, sand is growing scarce, as it gets so in the future we won't be asking how expensive is sand, but rather where can i get saying that we can expect to? there's actually plenty of sand out there. it's just that not all of it is suitable for construction. concrete sand can't be too fine or too smooth. it's grains have to be able to enter lock. just 5 percent of the world. sam fulfills the right criteria because it's too smooth desert sand is unsuitable. so researchers at a university in the german town in fryeburg, once

a recycle concrete waste for using the sam this again, it's the 1st step is to grind it up, knocked. it's a plane of home after crushing it. we add binding agents and water that's produces the pallet is which in turn are then added to the new concrete in between. both in the researchers are currently able to convert a different types of sand and rock into building and sand substitutes pellets that come out of a pelletize or one machine like there is can produce up to 100 tons of them per hour. yeah, that's the principle, it's similar to making a snowball that you roll and roll and making it more and more packed and bigger and bigger. we need different sizes from 0 to 15 millimeters. and the 2nd thing is that the pellets have to be around and firms so that they can be processed in the concrete accordingly. but if you take

a break after rolling the pellets have to harden for 2 days, then we'll see what it is suitable for building for cycling. fine. sam is just one approach to the shortage. however, another is developing new technologies that make do with less and the cube is unique building constructed on the k as of the university of dresden, gets the 1st made of carbon concrete. the result of 30 years of development, the concrete and the structure contains no steel. it's supported by carbon frameworks. the couple in the carbon concrete is a new type of material. or i should say, a combination of materials. it's reinforced with high performance fibers and designs that employ the new building material architects can save a lot of resources to access point up to 80 percent less compared to traditional reinforced concrete applications either to and that means a big drop and c o 2 emissions in the industry,

it's made possible by this network of carbon fiber is the supports inside the walls . the fibers are composed of up to $50000.00 tiny filaments. each sooner than a human hair must in 10 months, extra be used to produce a variety of carbon materials scripts like this for example, which has a very large mesh size. and a very rigid structure is in, but also very slim. 10 structures that are very flexible, stop the pausing. halstead best when i tell you, i don't know how your i am so glad you should see. the difference is easy to see when you make a comparison between a classic steel elements and a new carbon, elena, which is around 10 millimeters in diameter. these elements that are just 10 millimeters that we can build the same loads as a 28 millimeters steel rod. so we will talk to these office once it goes 5. carbon is 4 times lighter, and 6 times stronger than steel. 29 grams of it can replace accused of stealing

a building and it can be used to make curved elements. carbon fiber is only need to be covered in send layers of concrete and conventional reinforced concrete. much thicker layers are needed to prevent the steel from rusting and growing riddles. so it requires a lot not for sand, things before you got modeled and cause. so it means lots of material can be left out of carbon conk, right? because the carbon simply doesn't rust is listed as an added bonus. buildings can be completed more quickly. durability is also a huge plus, reinforced concrete as life expectancy of 40 to 80 years. because still eventually corrupts. the researchers are certain, the carbon concrete will last up to 200 years. but they're still the catch. until now, producing carbon takes a lot of oil and energy. in the future. the plan is to refine the element from algy

or living in a waste material from wood production. however, research is still in the early stages. it will be years before lightweight. durable carbon is used on construction sites. back in cyberg to the recycled san pallets. these have now been hardened and mixed into concrete, which has to meet the strict requirements. for example, in liquid form, it may only flow about 40 to 50 centimeters in between andre, i'm very satisfied with how it looks very homogeneous. ok, those have tiny law, say it's not deleting any water loop at least. so it's good concrete. i'm very satisfied, totally can schedule for these 1st success. another criterion and strength. does the concrete live up to the researchers expectations here to time to load tests this recycled concrete cube the are,

these are the same unit. this cube with stood the equivalent of $111.00 tons of weight, which means it would basically made all the standard requirements for residential construction, commercial construction and pre fabricated construction. so we could so we could use this concrete in more than 80 percent of construction projects about from i'd say so. so the granular made from fine sand are building rebel, it could be a game changer. it could make nearly all sand usable. at the same time, it could reduce rubble and waste catcher, demolitions recycled. concrete. also, score is highly when it comes to emissions. how many of the studies we've carried out, we can save 90 kilos of c o. 2. with every cubic meter of concrete, by the recycling method, is already being used in construction projects. the 1st 3 production plans for the pellets are already being planned,

stand recycling and carbon to promising solutions to the atm pending shortage of building se sand is also needed to make solar panels more precisely courts. and there are abundant stats of the material all over the world. and best of all, the shape and size of the individual grains doesn't matter because they're meltdown only then can they turn some light into electricity? bernard, co from gone up the road in with this question, how do solar panels work? solar panels also called solver modules are made up of a number of solar cells linked together. about 95 percent of all solar cells are currently made from similar con, pertain from ports and it's melted and cleaned at a complex process. the resulting silicon is cut and defend slices cold way 1st,

to make the cell electrically conducted to silicon is intentionally contaminated or dope. some wafers with boron others with foss for us. when the wafers doped with boar on and phosphorus replace together, excess electrons migrate from the fonts for a silicone layer into the boar on silicon layer. this leads to a surplus of electrons at the bottom and the shortage of them at the top. similar to a battery, solar cells have positive and negative polls. when sunlight strikes, the cell electrons are released and the silica and bore on layer, since they're negatively charged, they're drawn to the positive pole. solar cells also have metallic conductors at their top and bottom of the free electrons travel along these tracks, generating an electrical current. as long as the sun is shining, the when more light strikes the

surface, more power is generated to increase the yield. solar modules are usually connected in series and linked up to form larger systems. but even small modules can generate enough like tricity for everyday needs. more than 11 percent of all renewable energy already comes from solar energy and increasing trend. it's a form of energy with almost infinite potential. the why do you have a science question of your own? then send it in as a video, text or voice mail. if we answer it in the show, we'll send you a little supplies. there's a thank you. the now to a material that these days seems almost more common than sand on even the most beautiful beaches, plastic it's indestructible,

and it's everywhere. there are around $200.00 types of plastic worldwide. many can be easily recycled if they're properly sorted and separated. but identifying types of plastic is a tricky business. one that could be simplified. yes, in most i'm is trying to perfect plastic recycling processes. is revolutionary approach involves marketing. the plastics during sorting. doing so can have a big impact. vision reach me, i can tell you more plastic. so then reuse rather than ending up somewhere in nature or in landfill. so we're being and center rate and all of our industry simply have to start using resources and materials more efficiently and what's called a circular economy. that involves more than just plastic, but there are a huge part in it until phase leaves and the highs. the big problem is that a lot of different ways gets tossed into the recycling bin, plastic bags,

yogurt containers, shampoo bottles, put mixing, different types of plastic together to make new products isn't a good idea. it makes the recycled plastic too brittle that think is i can least ask. the trick is to win, allowed each individual log jackson and take several measurements of it. i assume you have those measurements. tell us what kind of plastic it is. what kind of application that was used for? it's like food versus non food packaging. so 1st we have to window it all out. that's what we do here. smack my. yeah. in a 1st step, this prototype machine splits the flood of plastic into streams. individual pieces are analyzed in detail. what type of classic is it? what was the object used for? a simple idea, but hard to achieve. does the system recognize the individual types of plastic? come in principal, you can detect every time. once you have an object in its own dish,

you can take several measurements and come on, then you can recognize it very accurately. we can correctly detected 99 percent of the time to get that extra or recycling efficiency could be increased even further. if a marker were embedded in a plastic event, a built in amazing could detect it. you can see the laser beam at work here. but when it hits certain plastics in the machine, they light up. they're marked with a fluorescent powder. made flu was tensile resting particles could be used to make recycling plastics much smarter, especially in storing techniques where materials move by very quickly like wind sorting packaging, where you can't worry about how the material is oriented in space and have to recognize everything and 10 milliseconds fluorescence is great for that sort of a sense from us told us. fluorescence has been incorporated into this packaging. for example, marking it the market particles could even be integrated into the label. the

fluorescent material is struck by the laser, it reflects some of the light back and lights up. as soon as the laser moves on, it stops glowing. you could therefore, for instance, mark all kinds of food packaging in the same way. and the laser would recognize that the powder is non toxic, and the laser can detect even the time used amounts of it. to actually visual, it's on average, you need just 10 grams per ton of plastic or so little, practically a homeopathic dose. it doesn't change the plastics properties and you can still detect the fluorescent material very well because it can be switched on. almost like a light source, the least developed. wilson most lying and his team are now working at designing a sorting system for such packaging. it's clear that recycling has to improve with fluorescence. the researcher wants to cut down to the amount of plastic that ends

up in the environment. status for the intel. i just see the potential, for example, out of 30000000 tons of plastic waste in europe, around 5000000 to recycle. that's a 6 stuff that we could increase that number to 15 or 20000000 tiles for the same spot. there's so much more material that could be recovered from way to estimate a huge amount. of course that could save a huge amount of c o 2. in a nut shell, that's the potential from poor bosses put into. so to recycle more, we have to store more efficiently. renewable raw materials sometimes offer a good alternative to recycle more plastics. like kalki, for instance, it can be used in a range of applications even as an innovative construction material. building with it would even help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. one reason why c made conservation is now being promoted in europe. and the 1st pilot projects it already

been launched are a kind of gold rush is going on in the north sea. here on the dodge coast, fewest of elders, a pioneer in the field of l. g. farming, cultivates brown, l g. from it, his company produces organic fertilizers. ready animals and various foods for humans. voters and his team have developed a method of growing the seaweed on ropes. when it's time to harvest, their lifted out with a system of metal arms and the marine plants are cut off by hand. algae absorb up to 3 times more c o 2 within plants on land. cultivating them is supposed to help europe have greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. ringback the european commission estimates that member states could dedicate half a 1000000 square kilometers at sea to see we cultivation by then the equivalent of

around 70000000 football fields. it's an ambitious project and it's still early days for the industry in europe, the global production of macro. algy commonly called c. we currently stands at over $30000000.00 tons per year. almost all of that comes from asia. europe produces only around one percent of the seaweed harvested world wide and that small amount mostly doesn't come from cultivation. but from wild stocks. interest into slippery crop from the sea is also growing on germany's baltic coast . like it, this kick off of and for a pilot project on ology cultivation at the g. omar institute in q, researchers from a number of german universities want to find out among other things, how the large scale cultivation of seaweed might affect marine echo systems. they

don't want to repeat mistakes made and land based agriculture. sure. of the there's the problem of over utilizing the remaining areas it see. and the fact that if you start using such installation, it's like i'm, then you have to go there. i'm almost done here. you have to harvest time and that of course requires energy. it causes noise and so on. now. so you have to look very carefully at the potential environmental impact. those installations can have in coastal areas, in particular space that see has grown cramped. wind farms, shipping traffic, restricted military areas. ok, what culture all need room? that's why marine biologist, a fresh quote talk to is testing off shore l g called division. bennett, the seaweed has grown far from the coast around wind farms were in combination with other aqua culture installations, britons, and of gayden fives, the jobs. there are definitely safety aspects. so i am like it's very important

that net cable aquaculture structures don't tear loose and store ice storm. pacific weather is a major challenge doc of offshore powerful storms and high waves or comments august . so the technology has to be sophisticated guys, and this is exactly the kind of problem that research projects like ours were set up to solve for from the school year. at the end of our visit to the dutch north sea coast, we get to try chocolate with local sugar account this year. so it was developed as the seaweed cultivation in europe is still in its infancy. but after all, that's how every industry starts off or by the way, we're now also on tick tock. okay. have, are they, are we answer your question? some clips that are fun, accurate, and to the point. what also based on the latest research, one to discover even more from the world of science. then follow us that

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