hello welcome to eco india a sustainability magazine that helps you make an informed choice for a pina greener tomorrow this week we look at ideas that are taking us closer to a fossil fuel think planet and talk to change makers behind them. coming to you from mumbai in india over the next cut the minutes how cold cut and paste company is introducing electric school to the polluted city how a german city was assistant to use pummel energy to heat up their homes and offices and how the environment can conscious in the philippines are pushing to switch to solar power 1st let's talk about the city of cool got that for me it comes close to my home city of mumbai it's crowded and it's intimate but just like mumbai the problems of traffic and for you should onto the factory. have

a massive 319 cars focus on the top one local company is working towards slowly changing this by introducing small electric school to us that we never need on diesel. and. the bright yellow taxis and don van crimes will tell you you are in calcutta no no university as the city of joy. but the city also faces major difficulties like lack of public transport and traffic pollution. electric scooters could help it used to bad enough air pollution especially if. we did some research and found out that only 15 percent of india actually has a drivers license so there was a majority of indian didn't have a license and that was the market that we want. we did

a little bit more research and found out that electric scooters where the speed of 5 kilometers an hour doesn't require a license to write and that was the aha moment and that's when we decided that we want to start this company. founded his rental a scooter service and over 2 years ago with 60 scooters. he runs a feat of 85. the rental service. clients can pick up and drop off the scooters x. 7 different points across concord on average a scooter is used by 3 to 4 right as a day. all of us who does have probability in mind batteries so anytime a battery is green or about to be drained customers can go to any of the points and swap out the battery field if a customer has any problem middle of the road we have roadside assistance and even there the wakil can be swapped any problem is about to be. is perhaps one of the. lions big sur to different garners of the city. taking

a cab to the business hub of our and back used to cost between $1400.00 rupees 5 years when she rents intellect for $45.00 rupees or less than $0.60 per hour she can hop cost on with a fully charged battery she can go up to 60 kilometers. on the scooter i'm not only spending less money i also end up saving time. i did was act on but i have several things to do in a day i intend to buy for the full day or on an hourly basis i invariably end up spending less than if i had to take a bus a cab or the tram. was is that come what they see me.

corporate customers like this food delivered get even better rate a strategy which it is hoped will also raise the visibility of east coasters it is primarily aimed at younger stock of founders and college students. let us think about polygamy if you talk about the course i don't really know how to go about it when i see my friends who are using their own bikes to do this job to spend a lot on maintenance so that's the biggest benefit to me that's trying to entice me like it's them go out he would think that according to greenpeace india is a still home to 15 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world with denny ranking as the world's most polluted capital. but efforts are being made in delhi and it's never an area is the city of scrabbling with the rapidly rising pollution that. this city is known as the diesel capital of india over 60 percent of vehicles in

calcutta august and isn't driven but it is hard for businesses to find investors for emission free to rental systems since this is an extremely new model bangs are on willing to finance it as the founders of the experienced however devoted consider changing that approach. we really want to make sure that none of our vehicles are well you the air and you know as many people ask as would we ever going to internal combustion scooters and we tell them no we might move to maybe higher speeds what does but live in never that is that that is the ethos of our brand even never going to i see i.c.t. as compared to a 4 stroke engine and electric scooter has a much lower carbon footprint depending on how the electricity was generated but soon. is also. still

a lot of manufacturers of scooters and the batteries they need. the necessary impulses to get those. now the school does run on the lithium ion battery the same kind the fault was your wife for instance but how the electric vehicles were once about question and. the world has been on the move since the canoe was invented in 8000 b.c. fast forward to the 21st century and mobility has changed rapidly in addition to the convenience of getting from point a to b. it's becoming just as important to measure the cost of that commute on the environment having a clean alternative to traditional polluting vehicles is becoming a reality for people who drive electric ones which could replace gasoline or diesel

. so are electric vehicles a feasible alternative if the automotive sector is a leading source of polluting emissions and is responsible for 30 to 50 percent of all particulate emissions. t.v.'s are silent smooth and have no gears. they require less maintenance. they can be charged using a dedicated home charging unit or a public charging station. electricity as a fuel is a more sustainable alternative to gasoline or diesel. and yet according to some estimates electric vehicles make up only 0.2 percent of the 1300000000 vehicles on the road the reasons. for one the lack of rapid charging infrastructure puts people off buying these vehicles it can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 24 hours depending on the size of the battery type of car and the charging port used. also

long journeys could be a problem as e's have been unable to match gasoline run cars in terms of range and ability to accelerate. another big reason is the upfront price tag attached to purchasing these vehicles but all of this could soon change. in china for instance ease are cheap because of the government's industrial policies in norway battery electric and plug in hybrid vehicles together hold a 50 percent market share. and in israel one in 10 people in tel aviv hop onto electric scooters but how green are really the electricity used to charge these vehicles does not always come from a clean energy source and their production takes twice the amount of energy compared to a gasoline run vehicle. yet researchers have found that e.t.s. that use electricity from renewable sources could produce 6 times less carbon emissions over their lifetimes. not.

another huge source of renewable energy is something scientists who will help lessen our dependence on fossil fuels india is looking to harness 10. or 20 a community in germany may have an. if. energy for their daily heating needs let's take a closer look. this is planet earth where we live this is the water and here's the crust inside it's hot magma which warms up the world. here in pool and no one is considered too young to learn about the potential of geothermal energy these children are visiting i mean it's a p. owned company called the e.p. which directly harnesses. in many ways typical of small town southern germany but it's made a name for itself on a national level for being at. trailblazer in the area of geothermal energy. by

u.p.s. biggest client is the multinational linda which does some of its business and puma . for a firm with such a large operation having a reliable heating network is a top priority. management points to the benefits of large companies switching to this type of system. linda linda has to focus on environmental protection and showing awareness of its carbon footprint with the building geothermal energy can reduce that carbon footprint to a fraction of what it used to be for. the children get to see how the geothermal energy is harnessed. this is the. this is the drilling point number 2 number one is over there the water that comes out of them both has a temperature of over 100 degrees the pipes are warm to the touch.

the water is extracted from layers of rock 3 kilometers underground a device called a heat exchanger is used to transfer the energy into the network. once the water has cooled down it's pumped back to the geological layer it came from this ensures that the water levels within the layers of rock remain constant. the existence of geothermal activity in the region has long been well known but the push to make cooler a center for harnessing it was led by a small number of people determined to see the project through. drilling began in 2004 by the following year the facility was supplying a number of public offices with heat. the project has spurred interest from abroad last year a delegation came to visit from india where cheap fossil fuels are used for power needs. while investing in geothermal energy is expensive proponents say the rise of

environmental movements like fridays for a future might encourage governments to give it serious consideration the emissions should not enter through i think pupils and need to go on strike for a few days and do you much more to ensure that adults stop using coal and polluting the air. on the 1st. line and that therefore if that works geothermal energy will experience big growth around the world what from. houla wants to be in a position to supply every home in the time with geothermal heating by 2024 a goal that seems possible. around half of the homes here are already being supplied with the existing system. the cost is comparable to that of oil and gas leasing and maintenance costs are low.

so. i've been using geothermal energy for 3 years now hopefully so far i've had no problems with heating it's. just stupid we have no emissions anymore it's great. that c o 2 emissions have gone down so much and pull off. this preschool is among the institutions being supplied with the clean energy source without the introduction of the system would have produced an estimated 114000 more tons of c o 2. like to expand further we want to start more drilling. geothermal activity here is very promising so we'd like to keep drilling and supply the city of munich too. when it comes to a vision for a cleaner future there seems to be no shortage of any kind of energy in pool.

now staying with joe many of the stuff up has taken upon itself to completely do of the with style for hexafluoride from the s.f. 6 says it's also called is the strongest known greenhouse gas and contributes 23000 times more than carbon dioxide to global warming new bench it up founded by monday not some issue and his colleagues is changing how high they did switch gears which is why it's of six's use. needs manchu not ramesh an electrical engineer originally from india who now lives and works in germany is berlin based company new ventura as wanting to make electrical grids far more environmentally friendly month to knott's focus is on switchgear essential components that protect an electrical network from overload attack comes into play especially when construction work or repairs are being carried out the vast majority of switchgear

uses a gas called sulfur hexafluoride or s f 6 as an insulator and that poses a major environmental problem s f 6 is the most potent greenhouse gas in the world . if you take one to know 4 as of 662-3500 ton so for. what it means is. it's not only that it's $25000.00 fire and more effective in creating global warming but it's also a very long living. the reason is there is no natural saying. if you take c o 2 that is plants which are absorbing it and that is a cycle which is happening and this cycle doesn't exist for as of 6 sulfur hexafluoride is a heavy inert and in combustible gas making it an effective and compact insulator. the issue according to munge unit is that over a switch gears lifetime some 20 percent of the gas it contains escapes

a release of some $8000.00 tons of s f 6 into the atmosphere each year. although it's hugely damaging to the environment s f 6 barely features and public discussion companies that rely on that have a vested interest in keeping it that way. manjoo not want to change his company has developed technology that enables switchgear to use regular air and sea . out of s f 6 as an insulator he says it's easier and cheaper to maintain than conventional switch gear and that the technology could prove to be a game changer in terms of environmental protection every year the way it consumes millions of media markets which guess which consists of as of 6 and if you are able to replace all of this which case not only in medium or dish but also in higher order page we would be able to get rid of $8000.00 done so far as of 6 which is

getting released into atmosphere so just to compare it 1000 tonnes of us at 6 is equal and or more than 100000000 cars a newly and market. european lawmakers are aware of the harmful effects of 6 can have they've already prohibited its use in the production of tires and soundproof windows now there are calls to ban the gas and switch gear to the block is due to publish a report on possible alternatives in the 1st half of 2020. shallow to who see as a consultant who has coauthored a study of sulfur hexafluoride and switchgear she says a major barrier to moving away from the gas is cost. switchgear is designed to last for more than 40 years. so for a great operator that has just installed say 3 or 4 new units it would be

unbelievably expensive to say ok we're going to remove the switchgear that was supposed to last for 4 decades and replace them with a 6 free switchgear that few of the flex higher side it's only fair that the parties involved to be granted a transition period of time that i thought. wants to lead the way his idea has already attracted several 1000000 euros from investors and the technology behind it has won awards. at a test center outside the western german city of do spork one power company is assessing whether the technology is sufficiently developed to meet its needs. according to manjoo not things are heading in the right direction. for me it's very important to make this shift happen this is something i started 10 years before and they continue that and it's my lifetime goal to make this happen.

in life you don't get many times the chance to make such a big difference and we have one if you want to get into. the technology could end up on the market later this year putting money june out ramesh and his team one step closer to their goal of eliminating s f 6 from the electricity grid and making power distribution more environmentally friendly. like a venture that people around the world are working towards creating a cleaner environment for the generations that follow for example the taal of the world out of the philippines its residents are rallying hard to stop the construction of power plants and make the switch there's a new bullet it cheap. people in the town of head to church on sunday mornings it's just 6 o'clock. they're united in their catholic

faith and in their opposition to a controversial construction project nearby. it's been part of our. fight coal plants because it's harmful to people to the environment. we just want to. protect our people and this is in keeping with the source of the church. to care for the the earth and care for those who're. in the margins of a society. after mass the congregation head to the site of a planned coal fired power plant to check if construction has already begun. they keep a detailed record of developments. they bother knoll says contractors have already started to clear the area of trees. someday this was one fears the plant

will poison the local drinking water and i don't mean being blow by the moment they best. possibility and that's a macro. approach to not just the micro that we are protecting our people they're joining the much larger picture of. what that showed up are on hold. the philippines has rough it population growth 12000000 people live in metro manila alone and the power grid is in urgent need of modernization electricity is expensive and the funds generate a lot of pollution joe on a alah is head of sustainable energy funds for the bank and says there are major business opportunities in the sector then your business is going to move so you don't just go green be happy to feel good about that you do good for the environment make money out of the. 2 thirds of the philippines energy consumption

is actually coming from fossil fuel so in our own little way back here in the country what we hope to do is to. help shift that energy mix. or energy. this is one of the projects a bank has financed to the tune of 1000000 euros just a year ago it was a stinking open rubbish dump the biggest landfill site in manila now the garbage has been covered with earth and is used to generate electricity. silver navarro is an engineer and renewable energy consultant. this will be. connected to the ground and it's collecting methane gas and other gases that's being produced by decomposing garbage inside. the gas goes to a power plant where drives turbines navarro checks regularly how much electricity

the cost. he says the government should deal gas for 30 more years. for a project may be good for the environment but it's not so welcome for people living in the slum nearby grove lost a source of income. they used to pick through the garbage for things they could sell for recycling plastic and our many i'm. now children look for those like some small they're still on garbage trucks. to try to stop for a few minutes to let the kids climb aboard and rummage around. a lot and. brian is 13 and he's already been collecting garbage for 3 years. he lives with his mother and 5 brothers and sisters. he tells us he knows how to read and write and is proud of that. company. and. i work every day. from 7 in the morning until 6 in the evening.

i earn about 200 pesos a day. so on that basis. that's equivalent to about 3 year rose when he grows up he wants to work on a garbage truck. you know to mourn our father nolan his congregation are determined to do their part for the environment. we installed both sets of one in the rectory and there or for the church our main goal is to provide. electricity for the church and at the same time this is the way of. the whole word that we can. make yourself where you are and they just source. by next year the entire roof of the church complex is said to be covered in function it will take connell in

addition to the efforts to block fossil fuels on increase environmental awareness the congregation are making a positive contribution of their own by switching to some of them. a small group of people who can definitely change what are you doing something similar to good use your community scotland when it was it up be just on social media and tell us about it we continue to bring to submissions for the peano and again a plan that if you until next time goodbye. to

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