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a young business woman who recovered from phone out the big parts of germany as far as this used to look like this. but now they look like this. in just a couple of years, this decades old forest has become unrecognizable. the same thing is happening in many parts of germany, europe and north america. but this isn't your typical the planet is dying story. this could actually be good news. but to understand why, let's backtrack a little bit, maybe more than a little bit to the end of world war 2. a lot of the world is in ruins and needs to be rebuilt. the allied forces, understandably, you want reparations from germany, but it's broke. so they agree that the con we will be partly in materials,

for example, $10.00, lots of $10.00, according to some estimates equivalent to 10 percent of the countries for us. so now for us, those need to reply and big areas asap to rebuild germany itself. and which tree did they choose? mostly the spruce, which looking back was maybe not the best decision. but at that time, it seemed like a good idea to find out why we're driving to, to ring you in the center of germany to meet funding for us to to fix this. navy is displayed and as fast growing regularly deliver century high quality where they can easily be processed at sawmills into furniture flooring. it's used quite lively. as the english they have items, ions and spa. that's why it's also a very lucrative treat. german forest as planted vast areas with them in straight rows that make it easier to get in. and harvest spruce is of the most common tree

in germany and make up over a quarter of all forests. but that is changing rapidly because of what made this one a culture so profitable is also what made it so vulnerable. forest around the world, the suffering from more intense and frequent drought, wild fires, and storms weakening, entire ecosystems, and germany is no exception. the longest time is due to climate change mean the forests are too dry, and the trees 1st, especially spruce street, they comparatively need a lot of water, but they root system is quite shallow. so they can't access reservoirs deep down. so while that's not the best news for the trees all for humans, and there is one little creature that loves what's happening right now into the box . this tiny little insect has been monitoring its way through many of germany's in europe as far as the box. these so, of course, loves the box,

it boils holes into the tree and then release his pheromones to draw a mate inside. there they reproduce. emily eggs, a healthy tree, usually produces resin to seal up the holes and to protect itself from the beatles . but says the weak trees cannot. that's why the bulk beetle is having a se. i don't from john buddy station like what years ago this area was holy forest . and dyslexia, if we're standing here now on wednesday last tired, this area was infested in doing this. the or that area could also be in the, in a matter of fine. but the beetles eat away lias transport nutrients and water disperses and die of fast mel nutrition. the beetle is fairly spreading across europe and the halter it gets, the more beetles will breed. what a full scale infestation looks like can be seen in bach beetle central, which is the hops. national park in the middle of germany, where we're headed here about 90 percent of all

spruce is opted. the bach people has come and gone, leaving behind the region. that is quite frankly shocking to look at. we're meeting the whole on peach, the head of the hots national park. the hots region is hit so hard because it had a very big concentration of spaces. but for peach and many others, this post apocalyptic looking scenario isn't a disaster. quite the opposite. for him, the bulk beetle isn't the villain. it's actually a blessing in disguise. if obviously the question is what's happening later, but what's happening is that the old spruce trees are gone and the forest that belongs here is comic. when you see what kind of strength, how much life areas, and it's beautiful, it's great and truly exciting your rush. but the pol come down to fix them of the forest as a safety barrier so that the beetle will have a heart of time spreading into neighboring forest us. but apart from that,

the national park decided to let nature be nature and did not fight the bulk people . and nature is indeed doing its thing. different areas of the national park are treated differently. some pod square trees are springing up on their own list of their own devices like this area that died off about 6 years ago. some parts need a little bit of help, meaning formerly native species that were displaced by this person on the cultures of being planted. but that's just one part of the story. the national park is a protected area that cannot be used to produce tinder anymore, but only around 3 percent of all forest and germany is protected. the rest is governed by public or private forest, as, for example, to produce timber. and we'll probably be using more of it since would can be a very sustainable and renewable building. material managed and grown by forest as like back in so ring. yeah. they need to take a different approach to the bunk beetles. the trees are checked for interest ation

. regularly, once and interest stations found latrice, i'm ok then that are top down and removed as soon as possible to hold the spread of the beetle. leaving behind vast areas of prematurely felled trees. to prevent something like this from happening again, the approach here is to not only bent on one tree, but on a variety of trees by auction, it's like with a stock or you're diversify your portfolio to minimize risk. that's what we're trying to do with the mix for us to buy it. how this is an equal fish to be a scientist trying to identify the forest of the future? here are some of the candidates, 1st of the oh, jeez. beach ok, and sycamore trees are adapted to low elevations. they can survive with less water because they root systems are depo seconds of a new come out and select the douglas the native to north america. douglas fast can also handle more heat and droughts. visa, currently seen as good candidates,

but if we continue to heat up the planet, we will need to mix in some wild cods to find out which ones may be suitable with the syringe and forestry has been conducting. and now of a 10 year old experiment in the driest region of the forest was, is often it's more or less because in a mixed for us to have to deal with various species of trees or supporting each have different risks and costs. so its price here all the way through to the marketing of the word or other product, locked in for quotes with the home phone. but from our point of view, it's more is that it's because it reduces the renton school that you might have more expensive, smaller yield and budget for the forest owner. it carries less risk. the go. he's a quote hosted thoughts, basically explained by visits on this type of forestry as well as the national parks approach. it shows where a lot of international forests could be heading. as you guys are also a chance to adapting life change or speed up the 4th version. yeah. which would

otherwise take much more time. it's best to get off of onto playing. does this. it's all good. in terms of addressing the climate crisis and it's good for resiliency as well as bio diversity. ok and see if i would, even though it might look tragic, a new batch of forest is already starting to grow. one that is more resilient than what we created before. and one that will hopefully weather and adapt to whatever is going to happen in the coming decade. someone might not be the cheapest division on the market, but it's a popular and relatively healthy option and comes in a variety of phones. conventional some of the phones have come on to fly up and using feet containing solely and due to pa sites that caused painful diseases in the fish. in no way, one fish farm has taken an alternative approach. the fjords

of norway, a popular tourist destination engine. now home to a new kind of salmon farm committee to doing things differently. the country supplies over half of global production to my smear hold is ceo of act for the future, which operates the farm. whenever he can, he leaves his office to head out along the fjords to be with his team of labor, the trying to find a new way of doing simon farming. and our goal is to reach the, the utopia of having the world's most sustainable time with farming it's and we really have been working proactively to mitigate the problems before they become problems like c lice, for instance. so we don't have any c lie, sir, and also with passages and 1st i seem to face parasites are a major problem for conventional farms. the specially slice, tiny crustaceans that can even cause mass di of some of them there ost and they can

also be transmitted to wild atlantic salmon whose stocks have plummeted by more than 50 percent since the 1980s. environmental list. say it's a major problem. let's see donna's is a very bad thing for the sidewalk in their plans, but it's also it's a problem for the light side of them and the wind. so i'm in this area, is that the land think so i'm, i'm, and now it's tracking or, and the increase in numbers or letters or amount that though another issue is that's a fund fish often escaped through gaps in the nets. if they then meet with the wild atlantic, salmon, they are off spring struggle, just survive. leading to a further decline in the ocean, going population and excrement from the agriculture facility often pollutes the surrounding waters. that in turn promotes the spread of skin diseases and the fish . so what makes this 5 different?

the key lies and its construction. instead of being surrounded by nets, the fish pins are enveloped in plastic. or we have a, a protecting bowl like clothes and bag and up the faces in. and we feel that bag with water from the, from the depth. so it's a fresh water from the depth without sea lies. the aquaculture pins are made of an impermeable plastic outer skin or bag and didn't net to prevent the fond fish from escaping and endangering the wild atlantic salmon. that double barrier also keeps license other power sites out of the pin the pins, get a fresh supply of water piped in from the cold steps of the ocean. when there are no sea lice. excrement from the fishes collected by a filter under each pin. and then pumped to the surface it's dried and then

used by bio gas plants to generate green electricity or by farmers as fertilizer. where the only 7 farm or that i know that don't time. so you lice and when the 2 steps to just drive inside of a good environment, 3 of have very good growth. so you have very low mortality, and very good quality of the fish that to harvest. in 2023, the average farm semen mortality rate across norway was 17 percent. with infectious diseases, i'm major factor q. the rate is just 4 percent. thanks to a very low level of disease transmission. the boss shows us the filter systems that are installed under the pins in the assembly hall pump units are being built, which will then be welded together. the company has

a patent on the high tech filters. this is outlets, so this actually regulates how everything is close in the ocean and is also where we collect the floods. and if you have any database we think collected here it take you to store and, and use it for another value for the future. so it's, it's making a profit and that it salmon is no more expensive than what sold by conventional producers. repurposing the filtered sludge also helps in keeping costs down the for now at least the semen industry is skeptical of the innovative young ceo will his approach bring a lasting, sustainable change to semen. farming to him, i smell holt is optimistic and is already hatching plans for an expansion. the

you see a lot more that 2 vehicles on the roads, roads these days, even though you can barely hid them. and while regular models create not just noise, but also air pollution, tvs have no exhaust, although they don't totally green the heat. that's the c o 2 from that production plus the environmental impact of battery minerals mining. so how about just recycling old batteries? this little part of good was once an electric. com. that's where you can, ford went through all that the know you have all the good stuff, cobalt, nickel, manganese and lift him in here. and the idea is to turn these raw materials into a new venture where you get there are several ways, but this is one of them. first, the battery arrives at a recycling facility and gets discharged after it's taken upon the battery,

then gets shredded. the liquid parts get expected and different methods of grinding and sifting leafy with these based materials, metals from the battery, housing, plastic, and the bits of aluminum and copper box. the stuff that everybody is after is this black mass. this contains all the valuable materials, like lithium coal, both nickel and manganese, but also graphite. that's why it's black. and today we're going to get all of them out of them. but that's not my job, but there's this is new, come at a detour, research i add to close. todd and his chemical lab technician might, could come in at the university as part of a larger research group that is trying to figure out how to do this. on a larger scale, and by the way, this is what the end goal of this process is supposed to look like. seen metal foil ready to go into a battery again. so while we're doing now with a black box. so now we're going into the leasing operation with the blame us. so we

have reading all the value of a metal we have on the black most into solution. the metal way off today is called to bring that out. mike is using sulfuric acid as a solvent, pretty nasty stuff. if it would touch i was given. it would instantly costs a v, a buttons. we're using a process called hydro metallurgical recycling. it's a low temperature process, but only use a small amounts of energy compared to other bets where your 2nd method. this entire process is perfect for getting rid of impurities that are still in the black moss. after all, the shredding and sifting mainly aluminium and copper. as a 2nd step, the black boss also gets filtered. lucas, as throughout the entire recycling process, they are able to remove 95 percent of impurities on a scale, a little bit bigger. the whole process looks like this. massive pulse of solvent in which black moss is process or our black mazda is now

edits to a nother solven's that will help bring out the cobalt in this chemical cocktail. and it's pretty colorful from greenish to doc blue. it's like so it almost looks like ink it could like right, but that and it's this doc blue pod actually that the coal both sticks to to get a higher concentration of coal. both. we need to do another round of this. this time we're going from blue to red. now that's the color change. so now the cult is in the dock, a reddish box spot to be able to use the metal in new batteries. you of course, need to get it out of the solvent. you can do that by hitting it up as you would at industry scale or a little quick kind of small up like this with yet another solvent. really can see the crystals a lots here. they even accumulates that the bottom like how much cobalt is that.

now from the back mass isn't here, will actually leave off this technique. we are able to recover more than 99 percent of the cold. what are the biggest challenges in ops getting these process is what makes it so hot? you know, of course you, it, we also run the run through the problem that and let scale we are only doing those invest, explain, and so step by step, very common studies, but in industry you went through the money. so you have the, you are having a continuous process and handling a continuous process of, of all the impurities and all the process steps and small things you need to consider. it's kind of challenging. that's what other researches say as well recovering more than 90 percent of materials is possible. but this requires optimal conditions, which you don't always find in the real world. if the recovery rates drop, the business case becomes even more difficult to, to, to, to you in the market. this is a stress to everybody minds who cycles by now the prices are quite new, which is

a challenge for everybody who wants to was 6. investment basically is price is a high recyclers make more money, but the question is, how much consulting firm mackenzie expects recyclers to make around $800.00 to $1600.00 per ton of battery. it's really about how much do you pay when you acquire the materials? this is holmes eric melons. he's been analyzing the end of last that 3 market for yes. so if you get material for free and then you process it, then sell it to market price. you want to use it and make a lot of money. um, you will most probably make more than many mining operations. but if the site does what need to pay for the batteries? the economics can shake this could mean recycling is more expensive than just mining new materials. and this isn't the only issue for commercial size ponds. another challenge, other materials used in the battery itself. it could be

a whole bunch of combinations, lithium, ion phosphate, lithium, manganese oxide, lithium, the cold, cold, minium, or lithium, nicole manganese, cobalt. and the last one even comes in different compositions. 121-216-2222 or 821 and 21. it's the wild west out there when it comes to bed 3 manufacturing, which makes it more difficult to build payload commercial off. the bottom line is and the real world recycling is much, much harder then on pay for another problem. for recycling, batteries doesn't have anything to do with the recycling process itself, but with the missing feedstock, electric car batteries last longer than previously thought and off so that they get used for all kinds of other things. like storing renewable energy, which means that there's many batteries to be recycled or on

a left scale reciting. batteries is no issue at all 9 to 9 percent cobalt because it's insane. but on a commercial scale, not so much info that for example, well, it's only going to do with a home to buy products. so there's some questions that still needs to be answered. never found down and exhausted. you do work day after day. fun out is more common than many people think on can even affect the younger generation res. hope even if its main starting from scratch, we met a young woman who managed to make it come back. it's been that even of my stuff with us, most of the things that increased as being able to make great money from a 6 hour work day left for me, but also having another leisure time to enjoy life. in spite of them, the mom,

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