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you from mumbai in india over the next cut 2 minutes how cool cup based company is introducing the make to school to the point you can see how a german city was soo stupid to use jewel pummelled energy to heat up their homes and offices and how the environment can conscious in the philippines pushing to switch to solar power 1st let's talk about the city you forgot 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 ssion entre very flattering. 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.

the bright yellow taxis and coms are dead you are in called gutter 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 but 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 indians didn't have a license and that was the market that we wanted to we did a little bit more research and found out that electric scooters by the speed of 25 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 stop this company. did you not founded his rental scooter service in kolkata over 2 years ago with 60 scooters no he runs

a feat of 85. the rental service works while. clients can pick up and drop off the scooters accept different points across color on average a scooter is used by 3 to 4 right as a day. all of us who does have probably came on 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 then the wakil can be swapped if any problem is about to be filed. is perhaps one of the. lions have worked exactly different gone there's of the city. taking a cop to the business hub of her and back used to calls between pre-funded and 400 rupees to 5 years when she rents an electric a scooter for 45 rupees less than 60. she can hop for travel costs

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 i'm going to have several things to do in a day i agreed to buy for the full day or i didn't i leave a since i invariably end up spending less than if i had to take a bus a cab on the tram or was it that come with their lives that see me. corporate customers like this food delivered and 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. a lot of thinking about that it will fail again in the if you talk about the course

i don't really know how to go about it and 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 going to a science. that is 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 delhi ranking as the world's most polluted capital. but quite efforts are being made in delhi and it's never been areas the city of scrabbling with the rapidly rising pollution that . this city's known as the diesel capital of india over 60 percent of the eagles in kolkata august and bees and driven but it is hard for businesses to find investors for a mission freed rental systems since this is an extremely new money bags are on willing to finance it as the founders of expedience. however devoted consider changing that

approach. we really want to make sure that none of our vehicles well you the air and you know as many people ask us would we ever going to internal combustion does and we tell them no we might move to maybe higher speeds or does but we will never that is that is that you cause of our bad move in never going to icy icy. compared to a 4 stroke engine an electric scooter has a much lower carbon footprint depending on how the electricity was generated but switching to immobility is also a technical challenge as there is still a lot of manufacturers of scooters and the batteries they need. to start ups like. gives the necessary impulses to get those be drooling. now the dog would be cool to us run on the lithium ion battery the same kind the fall was your wife for instance

but how the electric vehicles work exactly once about question and walk. the world has been on the move since the canoe was invented in 1000 b.c. to 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. 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.d.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 the these

are cheap because of the government's industrial policies in norway battery electric and plug in hybrid vehicles together hold up 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. another huge source of renewable energy is something scientists who will dependence on fossil fuel india is looking to harness. by 2030 a community. germany may have

a model to emulate by the application of energy for their daily heating let's stick close. 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 pula no one is considered too young to learn about the potential of geothermal energy these children are visiting a municipal owned company called i e p which directly harnesses geothermal. in many ways it's typical of small time southern germany but it's made a name for itself on a national level for being a trailblazer in the area of geothermal energy. i e p's biggest client is the multinational linden 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 show an awareness of its carbon footprint. geothermal energy you 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 he's exchanger is used to transfer the energy into the network. once the water has cooled down it's pumped back. 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. 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 enter through i think pupils and need to go on strike for a few days much more to ensure that adults stop using coal and polluting the air.

with the 1st thing. that works geothermal energy will experience big growth around the world. who 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. i've been using geothermal energy for 3 years now hope and so far i've had no problems with heating. we have no emissions anymore it's great. that c o 2 emissions have gone down so much and put off. this preschool is among the institutions

being supplied with the clean energy source or that 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 to. 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 germany a believe me stop has taken upon itself to completely do of the woods for hexafluoride from the. s.f. 6 as it's also called is the strongest moon greenhouse gas and contributes $23000.00 times more than carbon dioxide to global warming new bench it up founded

by monday not timid and his colleagues is changing how high the wanted switch gears which is where as if 6 is use of his. meet 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 switch gear 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 66123500 tonne so for. what it means is. it's not only that it's

$25000.00 more effective in creating global warming but it's also a very long living. and the reason is there is no natural sink. if you take sea would go that is plants which are absorbing it and that is a cycle which is happening and this cycle doesn't exist for us of 6 sulfur hexafluoride is a heavy inert and in combustible gas making it an effective and compact insulator the issue is according to scientists that there is always some leakage during the production of the gas during the use of the switchgear and after it's decommissioning release of some 8000 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 it 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 so . 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 world consumes millions of for me to mortgage which guess which consists of as of 6 and if you are able to replace all of this which not only medium or dish but also in hollywood page we would be able to get rid of $8000.00 done so for as of 6 which is getting released into more severe so just to compare it 1000 times of us of 6 is equal and or more than $100000000.00 cars a newly and market. european lawmakers are aware of the harmful effects s.f. 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 as stu to publish a report 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 s.f. 6 free switchgear that through a perfect fireside it's only fair that the parties involved to be granted a transition period of time to hear about a. jew not wants to leave 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 as 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 life. to make this happen. in life you don't get so many bangs a chance to make such a big difference and we have one and b if you want to get it done. the technology could end up on the market later this year putting you not 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 an adventure that people around the world are working towards creating a cleaner environment for the generations that follow for example the taal of a theme or not of the philippines its residents are rallying hard to stop the construction of school based power plants and make the switch there's a new. people in the town of are to more now on head to church

early on sunday mornings it's just 6 o'clock. in the united in their catholic faith and in their opposition to a controversial construction project nearby. it's been part of our policy to fight coal plants because it's harmful to people powerful to the environment. we just want. to protect our people and this is in keeping with the source of the church that. to care for the the earth and care or for those who are. in the margins of 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 but. there are no will says contractors have

already started to clear the area of trees. someday this was going on for years the plant will poison the local drinking water or joining the global movement they best . possible deal and that's a micro. approach to not just the micro that we are protecting our people they are joining the much larger picture of. what action up are on hold. the philippines has rough it population growth 12000000 people live in metro manila alone on the power grid is in urgent need of modernization electricity is expensive and the funds generate a lot of pollution joe on a allah is head of sustainable energy fund so the bank says there are major business opportunities in the sector then your business we will see the end is no brain to be happy to feel good about that you do to 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 as a bank here in the country what we hope to do is. 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 just in case. with earth and is used to generate electricity. silver navarro is an engineer and renewable energy consultant. this well that was connected down to the ground and it's collecting methane gas and other gases that's being produced by both seeing garbage inside. the gas goes to

a power plant or drives turbines navarro checks regularly how much electricity the cost generates he says the government should yield gas for 30 more years. that landfill project may be good for the environment but it's not so welcome for people living in the slum nearby who have lost their source of income. they used to pick through the garbage for things they could sell for recycling plastic and alimony i'm. now children look for those items while they're still on garbage trucks. to try to stop for a few minutes to let the kids climb aboard and rummage around. to find it. brian is 13 and has 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 he's proud of that. company.

and last i was at work every day. from 7 in the morning until 6 in the evening. i earn about 200 pesos a day. so on that i think. that's equivalent to about 3 year rose when he grows up he wants to work on a garbage truck. going out to more non father know on his congregation are determined to do their part for the environment. we. we installed both sets of color bought another one in the back story and there or more to church our main goal is to provide a tip elec they should be for the church under the same time this is their way of. showing that the whole word of that weekend i make use of where you are and they

just orthe. by next year the entire roof of the church complex is said to be covered in photoshop or take panels 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 solar. a small group of people who can definitely change the world are you doing something similar to good use your community in scotland print was it up be just all social media and tell us about it we continue to bring to submissions for the cleaner and again a planet if you until next time good bye. with . the. little.

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