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and behind the death of many more. exceptional access to some of its key players reveals the inner workings of an organization telling the known to many as the blood alliance. inside the sin, a la carte house part 2 of a 2 part investigation, people and power on al jazeera. ah, me, we're in the middle of the biggest energy transition to industrial revolution. the cobra 19 pandemic is accelerating. i'll move away from fossil fuel, price tags,

renewable solar come down. it is now possible to actually imagine a carbon neutral well to run on clean energy. but there is still a long way to guys with climate change in the market. this time for that, we must talk global greenhouse gas emissions by 2034 to have any hope of reaching net 0 by 2050, and avoiding the worst effects of global warming. so the change while it is happening, needs to happen quicker in this program will be looking to the solutions that have a part to play in that transformation on the, on the islands in the u. k. scientist working with one of clean energy is holy grails, green, hydrogen, and in norway, a carbon neutral data center is using the force of nature to power digital life. the. the global demand for energy is increasing, but burning fossil fuels is polluting and it's warming upon it with devastating

impact for life on earth. while renewable energy from wind tunnel, the cheaper than ever intermittent, it's difficult to store. a few of the future is emerging, which could prove fundamental to de carbonite in the global economy. i've come to the orkney islands of the north coast of the u. k, where a network of scientists and researches approving the missing link in the next renewable energy revolution. might be found in the simplest and most abundant elements. hydrogen, ah, the universe is about 73 percent hydrogen, mainly occurring as gas, but on earth most hydrogen is contained in water. is b h in h to ro after it's generated from what it can be used as a few the post cars, buses and even spacecraft. but in order to extract it from water, you need electricity. when that's produced using fossil fuse,

it contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. in order to be known as the energy islands, scientists have discovered how to produce green hydrogen using renewable power, generated by wind farms and title turbines. it could be a game changer. ah, i meeting a del lydia dale who the hydrogen project manager and was brought up on orkney. just let me know if we have a sense of self fee. we need to do thanks for our sales to talk to for. we are not really resilient on island community. we come to shop and say when a bought me 13 inhabited islands to see how they produced. i just kind of a joke to possession of small, quiet island for quite a high energy for this turbine is owned by local residents and produces more energy than the local grid can handle. the excess power is used in hydrogen production. i'm no scientists,

but i could see on the train it says explosive. compress gas. what is actually happening behind these? this fits what's going on in these boxes. so it's working energy production site, which before i refund site, what's the connection between? when did hydrogen, we have the wind turbine going round here today. when it reaches a certain meters per 2nd, we switch the energy production over to produce hydrogen. these metal boxes contain the key piece of machinery and electrolyte that generates hydrogen gas and electric current flows through the electrolyzer causing water to break down into hydrogen and oxygen. hydrogen is then collected and compressed, so the electrolyzer just takes normal drinking or use of energy from the wind turbine. it splits each to washer and to hydrogen and oxygen. we capture the hydrogen for you for energy. and the opportune at the moment it's just a tough sir. so your re diverting that wind energy into hydro, right?

as storing and storing the high it's transported by trailer and he's all over me. some in domestic heating but mostly in commercial vehicles and ferries. in the trailers, the hydrogen stored under pressure at $184.00 times it's original density. that's a lot of energy. i'm meeting with james ferguson, a specialist in hydrogen storage. the highly inflammable gas is locked away in compounds and the key side. oh wow. oh gosh. so one of the big advantages of hydrogen is that it is a kind of option for seasonal energy storage. and that's when we want to store a lot of energy over months. so we know that in the u. k. during the winter, it's very blue. it's very windy. if we go to a wind turbine based energy system, we're going to have a lot more generated in the winter than we need. and so we can capture that and store it from the form of hydrogen,

and then keep it until the summer when we don't have any wind blowing and, but we're still using energy that was. so how is hydrogen used as a fuel where? well, james has a rather knotty way of demonstrating this with a toy car that looks about what's 20 know what? it shows me, how to produce hydrogen with many electrolytes. so we just wait a moment, we're going to generate some hydrogen. we're going to get build up an electric current passing through the water forms hydrogen bubble. now, some gas storage here that we didn't have before. so now i'm going to take my cable around here and you can see, you know, that the gases are flowing into the fuel cell. and then that's going to allow us to generate electricity, which means the cargo that is absolutely better cause the principal to pose the fuel cell. and james is toy car is the same when scaled up to power. a fleet fight council ban on the island. well, completely silent,

completely silent. wow. you can sometimes hear the compressor from the hydrogen when it's when it kicks in. it, you know, here we, well, that's all you here. david hannon is working with the council to expand its use of hydrogen technology. so for a long time, we're talking about electric vehicles as being the future of, of green transportation. what do you get a hydrogen per vehicle that you wouldn't get of an electric vehicle? this is also about 3 runs off the battery. but then the hydrogen is yours to basically extend the range on it. so if you're either traveling long distances, you can potentially double range and is another advantage. it's quick to fuel with electric battery, you might take from half an r t. it are the charger battery, whereas this is pretty much instantaneous. you know, talking couple of minutes normally we'd expect to see an exhaust pick that the back of eventually this. yeah. and you can see there's no exhaust here. i mean same as

any other electric vehicle. obviously we've got hydrogen, but then the sort of emissions off out as water paper is here yet. right? wow. all right, really? i whispered me. it's great to hear. house seems to be growing all the time. and there's that awareness of the importance of this kind of network, or there's a quality of entity when you live in an archipelago. another important form of transport is very nice fe, company aubrey, 74 different connections. and there are more than $20000.00 sailings each year. with a few used in shipping, badly polluting i, david for david, hidden who works with the faith company in clean hydrogen is part of this plan to clean up the operation. and they all happens below deck. ok. have no idea what we get into it,

but here we go. oh wow. the ship. what we looking at him. these cylinders contain towards the leadership fuel. we're using that hydrogen, hydrogen i still want to invest system will run on a regular engine light steering safety systems and the, the lights and everything and the so when in the future, hydrogen will be used to drive all ships, operations, including propulsion when we stopping on multiple shipping steps that already established fans and fairies powered by green hydrogen just part of the picture in orkney. pioneering research into how the fuel could play a global role in transport and beyond. it's happening here at the orkney research

and innovation campus. one of the most important projects is in aviation, ah, in a normal year, nearly 14000000 flights world wage result in heavy c o. 2 emissions search for an alternative fuel urgent when company collaborating with scientists in orkney is 0 ivy. i contact director survey kids live so excited about their 1st 15 minute long hydrogen tests late. it was the combination of almost 3 years of research and frankly it was, it was for delivering the baby. the full game was already so excited at the same time. i know that you guys are planning to fly here with one of your hydrogen per play. oh, the final flight of our fire, fire one project down we'll be taking place from for can you or can you use famous

for it being hydrogen? can you give us a time schedule of when you think that we will see passenger planes in the sky running on hydrogen? of course they're not going to influence you, but i personally believe that 15 to 20 years, they will be a lot of depth. why and using hydrogen, and this is truly exciting. so if we can rise to the challenges of our energy economy, our future transportation needs, it means embracing a range of solutions. and i think what they're doing here orkney is proving the green hydrogen me pot. the green hydrogen is beginning to take home. it's a key part of the ease plan. the well 1st carbon neutral constant by 2050 a new projects being developed in chile, saudi arabia, the united states. yes,

there is still a way to go before green. hydrogen is proven to be scalable and cost effective, but it is gaining traction. and it's one of a number of current trends that harold, a weld free fossil fuels, is definitely a new power system and a new energy assistance emerg bar. i. whether we look at power, generation and distribution, or whether we look at transports, there is no doubt that we are in the middle of the most consequential transition in the energy space that we have seen in 100 years. it is a very exciting moment. it's also a nerve wracking moment, because we know that if we don't get to half emissions by 2030, it will be too late to do anything substantial about climate change. this is our last window of opportunity to bend the curve of emissions and get on to a did to track and doing society would be

a society that has one re percent clean energy. that energy would be centralized, cheap ubiquity, we would be able to provide power to every single home on this planet. we currently have 800000000 people who do not have the power, meaning they're in abject poverty, by moving over 100 percent clean energy and be centralized. we can make energy big and we can bring those were under the line of poverty over that line. a green society would be an economy that has smart grid that has storage available to all renewable energy generation. sources would often be society in which there is efficient and clean transport. passenger vehicles would

offer transport as a service, not being a possession of any individual. and heavy traffic would be using clean field and finally, to be would be clean wyatt because we would have put the internal combustion engine into them and city would be organized into smaller communities, around food and energy at the beginning of the most just science, the decade in the history of human kind, it behooves all of us to understand that this has been challenging and will continue to be challenging. but we can do that. we can address climate change in a timely fashion. we can avert the worst dispatchers, the climate change, and in so doing, we can bring a much better quality of life for all citizens of this planet. and certainly to the

ecosystem upon which we depend the in people across the planet offending an increasing amount of time on line from work meetings and catching up with friends to move it streaming and shopping. we are now more reliant than ever on platforms which generate and store data. but this data doesn't just vanish into thin air. it comes at a very real environmental costs. everything we do on line passes through data centers which consume huge amounts of entity and emit nearly as much c o 2 as the airline industry. i'm in no way to see how one center is honda thing. the energy of the fuel was to stole our digital information without a heavy, comp and footprint. but this is a famous tourist attraction and photo hotspot focused on the no way. it was

hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. i'm curious to find out what people know about the data, all these photos generate. so when you take a selfie, it land somewhere, have you ever imagined where that could be? i think the 1st time i would imagine if you're asking, i haven't been thinking about it. no, i have no idea. i send it to google, i guess in the cloud, in the cloud. and do you know what the cloud is? a big storage place in the night myself, most people only have vague ideas of where all our data has kept. i've come to university of savannah to meet an expert on data storage and find out where ourselves, he's end up. the photo is out will be stored in the memory of their phone. and then if you'll share the photo while you want to back up the photo into the cloud,

it will end up in some data center remotely could be in europe. it could be also in a remote fi across the atlantic. and both they have accumulated in those data center and those wall are for us to have a big a big data center. so the problem for sustainability, how long or how much data we have to store them in recent years, many of us have been moving into the digital realm and even more so under the corporate 19 pandemic year for the study. so our online habits take a heavy toll on the environment. a typical search which passes through data centers processing and storing information requires as much energy as illuminating as 60 what light bulb for 17 seconds. that doesn't sound like much until you realize google alone processes 3500000000 searches

a day. around one percent of electricity globally is consumed by data centers, many of which provide for note storage facilities or what is also known as the cloud is estimated that in 10 years this our data network grows. almost 7 percent of all electricity will be used just to power and qu huge service, preserving everything from billions of family photos to big data on space travel. so where and how you stole your data can make all the difference. and no way is ahead of the game on this, since it's powered nearly a 100 percent by renewable energy, most of which comes from hydro power. i'm on my way to atlanta, and i need to i've heard they have an old military storage. but instead of storing to pito hits, they now stole billions of bites of information all over the world. the underground green mountain data center which opened in 2013 is carbon neutral. it's rod and

hydropower from water wrestled us up the mountains. so question nice to meet you. nice to meet you as well. ah, oh wow. this is like being in a james film. i can see that this is very secure. this is very secure. wow, thank you. this is how it looks when we took over there to fight here is empty space, but it will not be empty forever. as soon as we grow, this will be a data center as well. so no, we're entering. what people refer to as the cloud. this is where our customers are running their server storage equipment. so what kind of information

is going here? it could be anything from storage, your picture to national critical infrastructure. if you'd be kid at home doing their lecture online. so many people when they think about the clouds, they think out in the open as their thing, white and fluffy. but actually the cloud is miss halleck and in black. and it's noisy, it's black and it's noisy, and it consumes a lot of power and generate a lot of heath to see how the center manager says it's a quick write down the oh. where in the future road, this is where all the green energy flows through into the data. all. so this is basically the giant engine of this data center. the consumption in this data center

with all the different data holes, consumes the power equal to about 20000 household. while this may seem a lot, some of the biggest data centers consume as much power as the city of a 1000000 people. every click you do on your device, generate committee in 5 data center, summer. if it's in norway, it's green and renewable as well. so new use in green energy, this data center is reducing its impact on the environment by cooling its service using cold water from the nearby deep salt water inlet of yard. so while most data centers use around 40 percent of the energy to cool servers, which would otherwise reach a 100 degrees celsius in minutes, this data center get a cooling free from nature. so this is where we're producing the cold water used to cool the cloud, a cold sea water from the fuel into the basin next to the data

center. this water, which is constantly 8 degrees celsius, is then pumped up through the heat exchanger cooling down, separate water pipes that circulate through the data center. the warm up feeble to the exits back into the fjord at around 20 degrees celsius. wed quickly, cool. down again. the green mountain data center in no way is unique because of the fuel cooling the servers. and the way in which they've repurposed an old site. but all over scandinavia tech giants like facebook, google and microsoft are building huge data centers running on hydro and wind power . in fact, investment in nordic data centers is set to double by 2025. thank you. our electric, i'm meeting theory kelvin, a local matri ologist in green investor who's confident this trend will continue. this is where the hydro power is. yes, the over the flu. hydro station,

it's actually the world's longest $4444.00 steps over a 100 years old. so be careful, though, i can see that it's old from this old train here. here you see the old pipe coming down from the mountain. so all the water's just flowing high speed in the pi, creating electricity when they hit the turbine. so you have to use for nature gives us. so in norway we have incredible rain or the concrete have sun. yeah, we also have wind, but here it's rain that gives us the electricity. scandinavia will be important to the world for data storage. i think scandinavia will be very important for future data storage. it's a cold climate. if you can use the cold fjords to cool down the data center,

we have the hydro pole word to run data centers. however, i think we also need to be even more responsible and take action that each one of us. and for instance, if we are talking on both data storage, we need to be concerned about how many celsius we need to take home many e mail, some snaps, and text message. we need to send the me though, we can't see it. our use of digital devices has an impact on the world around us. this is only set to grow. nearly 60 percent of the wealth population is already online and around $1000000.00 new uses sign up each day. as our reliance and data expands, we need to find greenway to manage it. here in no way, i've seen how this can be done. and i think really need to learn from examples like this. and make sure that we balance our modern lives with what the planet can sustain in which so many of us stuck

a time during the pans that make it perhaps hard to see that the world really has been given a golden opportunity for green recovery commitments. are happening all over the place as nations businesses, cities, investors pledge 0 call been targeted by 2015, but right now, 20 per year. not just under a decade, determine the future of the planet around the world. already seen glimpses the green society, the could be our last year renewables over to fossil fuels as a main source of electricity in europe. a new case in australia to the solar panels on rooftops, one in for hime, the nor was that photo complex and morocco 7, it's 1st phase, and it's already producing enough energy to power the city of my ra, cash. twice over 60 percent of monthly cost cells and know what are the diesel costs will be banned there in 2025. the solutions are already bad because needs go

global. make a real difference. ought to have shown that the green and prosperous future. ah ah ah ah ah ah, i'm russell bid in southern england where through farmers trans safari park, pioneers fits the attractive nature in the driving seat. i was just absolutely astonishing the life, the poor back even that the very 1st and last and i miguel sophia in our when one

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