next on w. . what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore the world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 getting up now. the beginning of the end for a win for. wind power is an important tool for protecting our climate. but as of next year thousands of blades in germany will the end of the shredder. and from then on the country may be closing more wind farms when it opens every year. germany's

political leaders have given into wind power opponents and put climate protection goals at risk. when power is one of the greenest types of energy there is so why has it run aground in germany. a turn highway in your part stop in northeastern germany where plans to build a wind farm along the motorway have been met with resistance from almost all the local villagers. except for should be losing. the plan for expanding wind power is to put up 7 yes 7 wind turbines in fashion which belongs to those that since. today will be voting for the building contractor or the. cast in hope has been the merest philos

a for 17 years and has spent years campaigning for climate protection. they were just scheduled to vote on the 7 wind turbines this evening. however a flyer suddenly surfaces calling on residents to protest against the plan. not so fionnuala after all these years so many years of debate so many this happens today when we hear they have been through 7 committees anyone could have attended nobody did and now this flying so we're very curious about what will happen tonight . on 3 hours later the wind opponents take up their positions. to cut all of that for those you know. just outside the meeting hall we meet the leader of the fight clay blocks innocence and should have. been treated luke prefers

a different source of energy all. right as if you miss me just i don't want to use that nasty word nuclear but there has been a lot of progress and not an area known as not nuclear fission and fusion councils one that's good to know how would you feel about a nuclear fusion plant here. unfortunately we're not that far yet technically we have to see getting acceptance there's always a problem evolution when no one wants to have that in their backyard whether it's wind power or nuclear who wants to have that. in the end we've all been programmed to want an easy to care for space that's just how it is. people where should electricity come from from coal that supposed to be eliminated by 2038 i doubt it. so we should keep the coal plants open longer i'd say so what about climate change . is c o 2 pollution the only thing ruining the climate i don't think so it wouldn't. so.

the session begins at 7 pm people have just been protesting outside. the tension in the room was palpable. after an hour long discussion they go out of everyone in favor please raise your hand. those against. now you know abstaining. $221.00 and $2.00 abstentions. but those against wind power won't be giving up a well organized minority can often determine the outcome even though surveys indicate as many as 80 percent of germans are in favor of more wind power. turbines already dot the landscape. martin of albany us is the head of a department at the ulysses research center near often. for several years he and a team of 20 scientists have been looking into how germany can achieve its. energy

transition and reach its climate targets in 2050 s. cost effectively as possible. even when power is the central backbone of the energy transition if it's to be implemented economically in addition to wind energy on land and it c wind is also the central element in relation to photovoltaics. the unity researchers use high performance computers to calculate how to bring about an affordable energy transition. about half of today's energy requirements could be saved by switching to electric cars and innovating heating systems and making cuts to industrial consumption. the rest of the energy demand has to be met mainly by c o 2 neutral atrocity. this electricity is generated by offshore wind farms biomass generator plants solar cells and above all land based wind turbines. to achieve

this as cost effectively as possible wind turbines will have to supply more than half of green electricity in 2050 for which germany would need around twice as many wind farms. the scientists calculations show less energy comes from wind farms the climate targets will not be met germany's energy transition will become. significantly more expensive. the build rate of new wind turbines has been decreasing for years meaning their proportion of energy produced hasn't grown quickly enough to reach climate targets for gigawatts will have to be added each year. this year will hardly increase over last year's output. and more turbines may be taken off the grid than added in 2021 . 1 of the reasons for the collapse in wind power

expansion can be seen in westphalia and northwestern germany. are working on a project of great relevance to the energy transition. they want to have fewer turbines producing more wind power by repairing the turbines. this entails replacing 11 old ones with 8 new more powerful turbines. the should enable them to deliver 3 and a half times as much electricity as before. 3 years after applying they finally receive the permit in summer of 2019 however. there are hundreds of conditions in apartment. one of these says that we are only allowed to operate during complete darkness between the 1st of march and the 31st of october but. that's absurd that would mean losing 40 percent of our annual yield on down times like that don't only obstruct energy transition they could also make it extremely expensive.

ever more conditions endless approval procedures and the frequent legal disputes are making expansion difficult. the daytime shut down aims to protect local wildlife. the red kite is a common bird in the region and yet the bird population here on the part of bourne plateau has been. stable for years in spite of the wind turbines. 4 months later. when farm operator like bob is trying to solve the problem. he's hoping a dutch team and this special bird can extend the new wind farms operating time. here we have a female peregrine falcon ok a female is a bit bigger about 50 grams now we'll do a test to see if the wind turbine will stop running when we get close with

a bow and for as i say even so the wind turbine should stop if you get close. to correct this we'd like to see. that's for sure. the robo bird is normally used to airports to scare away birds that could disturb the air traffic. here it's being used to test whether cameras on the tower pick it up slow down the turbine. it's course i don't know we'll see if it stops it's relatively close no it's not but i'm not. an accredited expert is also watching the experiment. it's turning slower right. yes definitely. that's what's important

here is that birds can detect slow movement and avoid it and are not always watching so we have to fall below a certain speed that birds can still recognize these exotic food to go through hikers were rescued us does this work we currently evaluating the initial data so far it looks promising of course we still have to wait for the final analysis what you think of this it looks promising. following a safe landing the test is evaluated and your one is like months office hi i love you i'm a story i ask other data from the camera system is also being analyzed for a year and a half the camera has scanned the sky for real birds of prey. now it's time to find out where the wind turbine has switched off each time. you have on our aim is to ensure that we can operate the turbines in the wind farm with the strict conditions economically by running them continuously and only switching them

off when there are actually birds close by. the new technology could help solve the conservation and window energy conundrum. the danger the turbines posed to birds is one of the most common reasons why people are against. bird conservation versus wind power. how do experts like all off buying to see that . he's the chairman of one of the most important nature conservation associations in europe with the acronym b you in. his organization supported a project in the region where a dike was moved a few 100 meters away from the river this created new habitat also for endangered species. oh my god i think there's a sea eagle over there i basically land on a no. it's wingspan it's never to me up to 230 or to 14 i

think it's enormous. and they breed on the other side of. the number of bird couples breeding here is almost tripled in addition it's become an important place for wild geese and cranes to roost. nearby be you andy has an important visitor and conference center in the castle benson. we want to find out would be un disposition on wind power is. the problem is there for the big problems for it's come from industrial agriculture on fields and meadows it's often struggle to find sufficient food because of it for example the red carpet which can no longer find my saw field. industrial farming is a much bigger problem than all the wind power plants being kept

a log so when power of nature conservation go together by country can go together if you put the wind farms on suitable can for you selected sites and you ensure that the conflicts are minimized even further in future for example through shutdown and warning systems of on a large midst. so when power and wildlife preservation can co-exist. with a number of red breeding pairs has increased in germany since 1904 and this during a period when power was being massively expanded. nevertheless citizens initiatives often use the red tide as a reason to oppose wind turbines which they describe as bird shredders. for many the preservation of the landscape is actually what's at stake. here in the middle and region there are more than 300 active wind turbines. these were put up

without lengthy approval or legal proceedings some of them are only a few 100 metres away from houses such as here in the village annoying kitchen which is part of the stein for district. residents here can participate directly in so-called citizen wind farms. for mayor for huntsmen of him it was important that locals were included in the planning process from the beginning. of this on us through what's living with the wind turbine like crazy actually but doing that for a while now is marked i actually like the view i like the spinning roaches now and then listen i know it's depend. and how the wind is generally and i like living with them. here in this time for district there's an agreement that wind farms shouldn't be for financial investors but for the local people invest ones and so on some of i can participate in the financing or. if there are problems i know other people to whom i have to go and say that something isn't working. for us

a. citizen financial participation contact people you can actually meet. additional business tax revenue for the district. do such measures increase the acceptance of wind farms we went to the weekly market noise and kitchen to ask. what do you think of the winter but here just now i like them they don't bother me . what about subsonic noise i can give in my life you know and i don't hear them. and i think wind power is very good in that i live in sent our knowledge we look out on the whole spread yes of course you can hear them so sure when you can hear them does it bother you. there's a nuclear power station in england so i find the wind turbines better and they belong to the regions and. also in the midst of line to region the municipality of shipping and friday afternoon in the local supermarket car park we ask what people

think of the many wind turbines in the region as well there are also some where we don't bother me on the contrary. i don't really mind them ok so not too loud not know what's the atmosphere like in the village but if you know it doesn't bother the people who live close by not that i've heard of down there thanks have a nice week of. the result after 2 hours we spoke to $31.00 people and got $31.00 positive comments we were amazed by the unanimity. in the nearby shipping up. when far the closest turbine is only 600 metres from the edge of town. there's an extraordinary meeting at the wind farm shareholders managing director hina cornet explains the project yeah the hot topic is the federal government's planned distance regulations in the future the federal states should be able to prescribe

a minimum distance of 1000 meters from residential buildings. it's a 1000 metre radius you see here the site would be gone the site the location it would be gone all of. that will mean the end of shipping a bank's 30 year history with its use of wind energy. that shift is widening above all the acceptance is there we have not had any problems with residents and now all of a sudden everything is being ruined. it's incredible. is that the politicians realise or even recognise what they're destroying that's the business that they have coupled. the plan distance regulation is actually aimed at increasing the public's acceptance of wind turbines but even in the shrine for district which is fully behind wind power it will probably lead to a drop in wind power generation. the federal environment agency says it would also

make expansion throughout germany more difficult. berlin january 2020. germany's financial daily 100 splot holds an energy summit like many in his card the c.d.u. energy minister peter supports the controversial 1000 meter option but even though the deal seems bound to go through he says he can see the opposition's point even if you've got a field where you can put a wind up you'll find it all very kind of says because the lease brings in money and if you have a house that looks sounds over the field you usually feel it in fact if you're inclined to join citizens' initiatives even so in. that small but well organized citizen's initiatives can make a big impact. but with a broad public support for wind energy still plays a little role in this calculation it's as if he puts a 70 percent of our primary energy needs are important and anyone who says we

should change this in the future don't say where the land is to come from and how the expansion should be carried out dogs will be hard when we import oil and gas today coal and nuclear fuel ronson we will in order to moan cream hydrogen in the future would you them. import green hydrogen and. that's what the federal government's response to the sluggish expansion of wind power is. that means the bio gas solar and wind power plants that meet the majority of germany's energy requirements in the future will be located outside the country. they'll be located in countries that currently produce oil for example such as on the arabian peninsula. here solar and wind power plants are expected to provide a lot of green electricity which will then flow into so-called electrolysis plants that extract energy rich hydrogen gas from the water.

this green hydrogen would that have to be transported to germany by ship in large quantities. this is the thing for the better doesn't it make more sense to take the added value from the energy system transformation within this country to continue to import large quantities of energy and so encourage once again germany is a relatively small and densely populated country and therefore as in the past we will have to import large amounts of our energy requirement import not clean and climate friendly to put it differently. that would spell the end of any low cost energy transition made in germany. we're back at the research center and unishe marching will be near us shows us an electrolysis plant for green hydrogen. this technology is crucial to the energy revolution because it means solar and wind

power can be stored as an energy rich gas been transported to germany for acquired . however after converting the original green energy the energy conservation rate is only 10 percent not the 70 percent the politicians are touting. and their style of it to be blunt we've calculated this ourselves in models and it's nonsense to say we have to import all the hydrogen wherever it's from in other words without wind energy as the backbone of the energy transformation the energy transformation will not work it makes no sense to say that we want to expand wind power and we'll import everything instead because it wouldn't be economical in the long term. using their computer models the units researchers have calculated the costs for the different forms of energy. the result. in the year 2015 wind power made in germany could already cost as little as $3.04 per kilowatt hour. and produce solar power from about $6.06.

imported green hydrogen would cost $0.12 per kilowatt hour that's up to 4 times as much. when it arrives the green hydrogen will have to be transported from some german port. not like the solar wind power already on the german power grid. relying mainly on the import of her nubile energies will significantly increase costs for both consumers and industry in germany. the institute events in plymouth often is one of the world's most renowned research institutes for wind power technology. in this hall rotor blades more than 80 metres long or clamped on to a concrete block and then tested for durability. the head of the institute is professor under u.s. oil. we show him the pay to i my interview about importing green

hydrogen. and decided on their phone as in the past we will have to import a large parts of our energy needs this get there is no green hydrogen market of this size anywhere in the world it will be decades before these capacities are built up at some point somewhere in north africa patagonia or elsewhere. for safety reasons no one is allowed to be in the hall during a road or playtest so professor avoid to shows me the procedure on a video terminal. one ton of force is applied to the rotor blade making demands on the blade that are higher than an aircraft construction and more comparable to space flight in practice they will have to function for years without much maintenance. so how many research laboratories like this are there 3 in the world to the re in

the world. these and other technologies developed in germany mean that wind turbines made in germany are now fully competitive with conventional power plants. does it make sense to use it in germany and says it's i this is the i'm the 1st of all we have to finance everything the finance the whole development if we pull the plug now we destroy the value of what we've created and they'll be picked up abroad by china but also brought in europe and we are left with the bill as it. were in the industrial area of clay mahaffey the slump in the wind power expansion has left its mark for companies used to manufacture wind power plants here of the 4500 employees all but 500 have been laid off in the last few years. in northern germany this was simply the industry of the future just as aviation is for southern germany. nationwide around 40000 jobs in the industry have been lost

in recent years. but when power is booming worldwide and the fall for institute is in great demand internationally ironic. globally successful climate friendly cutting edge technology from germany has little future in its own country . in this field the researchers work always depends on political decisions. professor who i took has observed the entire political spectrum for many years. after the f.t. has clearly positioned itself against wind energy in order to catch votes in the end the f.d.a. is involved in energy policy because it's pushing this e.u.'s head by creating a mood against wind energy. is the a.f.d. already helping to determine energy policy in germany. we look at the issues that played a role in the recent election campaigns and brandenburg saxony and the reagan among

others. the expansion of wind power was often a topic of discussion both by the f.t. and the c.d.u. . wind energy means $3.00 to $4000.00 tons of reinforced concrete in the ground per turbine that means 0.2 to $1.00 hectic air of clear force per wind turbine. i can't understand how they can destroy our beautiful to religion forest put in 50 truckloads of concrete into the ground so the wind turbines can be built that. is. what both politicians and many opponents of wind power fail to mention is that each wind turbine saves many times the amount of c o 2 that the clear trees could absorb. and the forest is usually replanted somewhere else misinformation like this hurts the industry. in theory the politicians want to expand renewables including wind power but in

practice everything is being done to prevent it. because they're afraid of the angry citizens and every vote counts so everyone has to be kept happy. that man and his team are still working on a camera recognition system that will identify birds and switch off the turbines but whether the authorities will ever license it is completely uncertain although the technology is recognised in france and has been in use for several years. in the district of shine forth in the midst of that region production for about half the plants will soon cease then they will have to be repaired i.e. replaced by new ones. whether this can be done while still complying with a 1000 meter distance rule is questionable. wind turbines may be changing our landscape. but our landscape will change a lot more if we don't protect the climate. the development of wind energy needs

the involvement of our whole society. but it's difficult to reach a consensus with people who fundamentally reject the. politicians are currently creating new obstacles to the expansion of wind power however importing large quantities of renewable energies will lead to higher energy prices and make reaching our climate goals a long shot. goal

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