member's fight for wasting my white supremacy. what we're talking about here is not only disorganized violence, it's not only terrorism. it's apologies. sounded over 150 years ago. it's repeatedly died out, but always been resurrected. the ku klux klan starts may 11th on d. w ah ah, ah ah, ah, technology can be a double edged sword and never more so than in times of war. surveillance systems are helping to unite families, separated by the war and ukraine, but also by moscow to target its political enemies. this week we'll look at controversial facial recognition technology and the crucial rate role it's playing

and the war in ukraine will also look at how germany's industrial backbone is bracing for disaster. as russian gas applies. come under threat and will take you to small town america or residents are fighting against an electric car factory. they fear will threaten their community. and finally, will answer the question, what can we do with the mountains of old car tires and chelsea? delaney looking to meet in germany. now our faces are no longer our faces there being tracked, analyzed, recorded constantly. facial recognition technology is what allows me to open my phone. the technology can be used for good, for example, to reunite families separated by the war and ukraine. but it can also be used for more nefarious purposes like tracking down russian political dissidents. take a look. be facial recognition has become a powerful weapon in the ukraine war, on both sides to 200000 surveillance cameras in moscow,

allow anti war demonstrators to be identified with nearly 15000 protesters have been arrested in russia since the start of the ukraine invasion, ukraine is also using facial recognition to track down spies, identify victims, and we unite families. where is the external team validation that technology for using it to inform families that their sons and daughters have been killed in conflict? there is no control on the house positives. there is never been smoke technology that has formed even remotely close to the calc abilities of what's been claimed by people selling that technology. guys. facts, facial recognition allows millions of users all over the world to unlock their phones. so how does it work in an algorithm analyzes each face the distance between

the eye sockets, the shape and size of the eyes, the shape of the jaw, and so on. it's kind of like having a mobile fingerprint scanner that everybody works. i'm straight has asked to scan that fingerprint, trade, or innocence key. all of us have biometric data such as a unique fingerprint and face making us all identifiable in the subway to out shopping. ah, or even at home companies like clear view a, i collect this data. the u. s. facial recognition company says it has the largest known database with over 20000000000 facial images drawn from public sources. mm. mm. clear view then passes that data on to governments like ukraine, or to police forces in the united states to track down criminals. it's,

it's not just watching people, it's, it's, it's following their behaviors across both physical and digital spaces and making sure that these people don't cause trouble. and that is the problem for some retailers have tried using facial recognition to track their customers shopping habits in taylor. they're advertising. in russia though, activist say it's used to control people in use technology for bad news, still have old privacy, new ways to have our autonomy do we have stella digital rights? so we need to stop this crazy digital dictatorship as we have in our country, ah, with a photo anyone can find out who you are using the russian search engine john text for example. all thanks to facial recognition.

ah. so just because you feel like you have nothing to hide and now under the rules of the game now, doesn't mean that the rules of the game will not change under your feet because that's what's happened to people in russia right now. oh, but it is possible to dupe the technology by applying certain patterns to your face or your clothing surveillance technologies have long since become part of our lives . so taking care of your data is now more important than ever. be it online or in the real world, ah, staying in the real world. one of the most pressing concerns for businesses, germany is energy supply. germany's industrial economy quite literally runs on natural gas, most of its, supplied by russia. my colleague,

fabia and at mon spoke to 2 german industrial companies about what would happen to their production if russian gas were to stop flowing. steel maker friedrich the hymns who to produces components for trains and bridges. it's energy needs are huge and supplied overwhelmingly by gas. a gas supply stoppage would cripple operations . here i'm before they got a sudden loss of gas here and move time under ruhr. would force us to shut down immediately if there's going to public energy demand is also huge in the glass industry. $8000000.00 bottles and other containers roll off the production lines at the gantt glass every day. the glass is liquefied, at 1600 degrees celsius in melting tanks. if the gas runs out, glass hardens inside the machinery than the blacksmith spun, and then the glass melting furnaces would no longer be operational cdm. rush on and

would probably break down in the end as the ones lead the heart of our industrial base would collapse. buddhism, y'all. columbian melting tanks are hard to replace. new ones could take months to find and shut down here would be felt through out germany. the again to glass produces 25 percent of all the bottles and glass receptacles in the country. a market share that's growing because russian and ukrainian imports are no longer available. if india fins wanted this here is it 24 hour round the clock operation. if production shuts down before i monitor time, 2 months, 3 months, a year, 2 years buy them, some things just wanted packaged any more. michael never caught up production stop . at the friedrich, the hems who to steal works would also impact other industries. it's castings are made to order, they can't simply be ordered from abroad without germany steel,

foundries, even the country's energy transition to greener technology is, would be in jeopardy. it has been cut off the beach wind turbine look each 5 megawatt offshore turbine. auto needs 100 tons of castings, mainframes, and rotor hubs even metaphors if those are no longer available, it won't be possible to build new wind power turbines. but a potential break down in gas supplies is not the only threat. russia also supplies other raw materials that are crucial to production. o wriggling, you an important alloy ingredients such as nickel also come from russia always with ya. we have taken precautions logo and stockpiled a larger inventory than i'm good to russia. supplies 65 percent of germany's natural gas. so holton deliveries would hit hard. that's one reason the government is holding on to contracted deliveries. the danger to industry and workers is seen as too great for a boycott. that's little comfort to companies though,

because if tensions worsen, russia might just turn the gas tap itself. now, switching gears over to a tiny town in the united states that you've probably never heard of. rutledge, georgia, population 900. things have been tense here since the car maker really in announced plans to build a 5000000000 dollar electric vehicle factory here. the factory promises to bring thousands of new jobs that feminist community fear the end of their quiet, small town life, dw stefan, siemens and wida emron report from there. this is revisions version of the shiny new electric vehicle world revisions, electric advance vehicles, ready to conquer the u. s. e. the market starting at just $67000.00 apiece. the company, headquartered in irvine, california says its future is bright. one reason for that optimism is here. well,

not here, but here. oh, this is rutledge, roughly 50 miles east of atlanta, the tiny town in morgan county, georgia is home to just about 900 residence. there is no traffic light in rutledge . the only intersection in town is safeguarded by this. the stop sign barrow. ah yes, bruce ulta, no, it says he likes his job as a mayor at least most of the time. right now, although he is somewhat in a pickle that is because really in plans to build a huge electrical vehicle, assembly plant near by this is not sitting well with some of his constituency. alton, our things, he knows why are you good. thank you. most the people who moved i moved here. ah,

they were all like, oh my wife carol and i gotta be empty nesters and we were tired of the of the hassles of the atlanta area or that. so we, you know, we came out here to, to relax many here fear the beginning of revision in rutledge could mean the end of their cherished lifestyle. the v maker once this area, but whopping 2000 acres or the equivalent of 1515 football fields for them. massive new plant project, tara, as river calls, it could bring an estimated 7 and a half 1000 new jobs into the rule region. of course, georgia state officials are a site. this is the most important project in the state right now. and, and, you know, every time we have an opportunity to bring jobs and investment in the communities,

you know that it's a positive thing for us. there's no better way to give people hope to give people a long term opportunities than to really that the health of the community then give them jobs. and he looked back and look at the impact automotive industry is out on georgia. we have roughly about 55000 people employed in automotive industry and all that start to in internal combustion engine. and so it's imperative upon us as the state to make sure that we're recruiting the jobs of the future. speaking of the future shop, 9 o'clock in the morning on this day, opponents to whatever future revision could have in rutledge attend a routine public meeting of the local joint development authority in medicine, the county's biggest city. everybody dressed in red is pretty mad and let the board have it in all this development. now, you know, the steam roll them around and,

and then on top of that, you know, all the switch in the meetings and all this is like luck with d. c. and it's probably cancel saying, and i will do this like slightly. it was late that it was moral, and that it made his ethical that it was late. so just the dow jones, honestly, what i mean is right. it is now obvious to everyone in the room what you've all been up to you over the past year perhaps longer. and this leads me to my point today. my question is why it must in only can be from one of 3 things, isn't about read and money or all of you so disconnected from your own community that you truly don't comprehend the destruction you're calling for our families, our land, our history, thinking it to the board is rewarded with applause, and shortly after the meeting is adjourned. back in rutledge, the mayor wonders how divided his community really is on the river an issue. it is

mixed, and i don't know that 5050 or the other. i know the vocal opposition. i don't know what percentage they are to or to the ones who are, who are in favor of we me, joe and an arts and chess more for lunch in the only open restaurant in town. joe elementary is a part of a local group representing thousands of opponents to the proposed river project there, adamant a river navy. assembly plant is the last thing rutledge and the region needs. and the people here want for many reasons, every day is like a vacation here. and i don't think that um i'm a, you see or say you see our city and we don't even have a stoplight in town. the utah membrane is 750210000 people a day 24 hours a day into a town that doesn't even have a stoplight net. i mean there's a lot of worries with land use. also the concern about lithium batteries. and once

this had been announced, it then was revealed that they planned to make lithium batteries and site in a project in process. it's never been done before in the united states, so they can't guarantee it will be safe because it's never been done before. the. there are many more cars, including groundwater level than water quality protection. for example, there are also many grievances about the decision process. there's anger about the alleged lack of transparency and frustration with local and state officials involved in bringing already into the area. we have no intention of failing. we have no intention is that we have every intention of staff stopping the development . we can't tell you how there's a lot of constitutional issues at hand and, and these, a lot of these areas have been unchallenged. and when you think about,

think about it in american citizen and in our ability to be ruled by the people. yet we've got crony cooperative, just spreading like wildfire throughout the entire country. someone has said that precedent, really. and rutledge, ga, not a done deal, i believe is going to happen and prepare for it to happen. but again, either way we're going to do the city is going to do what's right for for, for a citizen. is it going to change life? yes. is it going to change the reason i moved out here? yes. but i think we can make a lot of positive out this. ah, there you go. rutledge. better get ready for ready and future production next door to meta, formerly known as facebook, which is already building an additional data center just across the highway.

oh, no electron vehicles are seen by most as a crucial piece of the climate policy puzzle. but while they may not be powered by fossil fuels, easier cools are often made up of parts that aren't so environmentally friendly, like rubber tires. up until now car tires and other plastics were considered and recyclable. that's now changing shine aka investigates the promise of chemical recycling. this reactor is supposed to do the impossible recycle the on recyclable such as these tiles that would otherwise just be bond or end of the landfill. a possible solution chemical recycling. i think it breaks plastic down into its original components to create new plastic and infinite cycle. at least that's what the companies are telling us. but is the

technology really a solution to the looming plastic crisis? ah, generally we collect and then we're sold and saws and sought some more, all mechanically. and that's how we recycle 99 percent of all plastic waste in europe. but with these types of net dot org, recycled rubber can only be used for a few things though like race tracks for example. and the world only needs so many of those, but there's an abundance of tires. so instead of reciting them, they are burned because of the heating value at pyro facility in germany. old tires that would otherwise just be incinerated, a broken down into their original components that looked like a lot, but it goes to your family. other than that pile over there will be done in 2 or 3 hours or 2 or 3 hours it yes. all that over there. oh,

my gosh. sure. in the 1st step the tires are shredded. 3 times the outcome. textile fibers, steel, wool, and rubber. the fibers can be used as insulation, and the steel is melted into new steel again. so far so good. but chemical recycling goes a lot further than this, and that's why this rubber goes into that thing. a paralysis, re exit that cooks everything at a really high temperature. the rubber granules are put in at the very bottom and make their way up to the top of the tower. then gravity does its thing and everything drops to what's the bottom. the rubber regulate is heated to around $700.00 degrees celsius in the tower. it's practically cooked out and breaks down into its components. the result and gas is discharged and supplies the process with electricity. and the n 2 solids come out of the plant paralysis, oil and coke,

or cabin black. and the whole system is locked up air tight. you don't really smell anything here because it's all closed. open heated with an oxygen. but it's like really, really hot because that thing runs at 700 degrees celsius, which is yeah, i think the hottest that i've never stood next to. but as you can imagine, it takes an immense amount of energy to heat that much plastic because you essentially breaking chemical bonds. and this amount of energy is also one of the biggest concerns from an environmental point of view when it comes to paralysis. again, remains at the end of the process and that goes through a cleaning system, then into a buffer tank and from the buffer tank into 2 thermal plants bought on one of these are actually power generator of socket. layer 2 big 12 cylinders and they produced electricity for the whole plant to linda when they put out, soon informed those guns havoc or the whole plant. so it's really completely

interview self sufficient, even though it's such an energy intensive process, if it were isn't, yes, it is, even though it's considered so energy intensive hog this means that pirate energy recovery process is producing enough energy to heat free 100 family homes for an entire year, this concept of power says that's done here is the most popular way of chemical recycling. currently. facilities are popping up all over the world. like here in india, china or saudi arabia. the problem is that, that on many commercial scale chemical recycling plans out there and the companies mostly keep their data for themselves, which makes the research around it. really hard to verify. a message study is published in its entirety, full transparency for everyone to really look in detail. then i don't think anyone should take it seriously. this is simon hand. in 2020, he conducted

a metal study on chemical recycling. and since then has peer reviewed a lot of studies from companies and independent bodies? the main advantage at the moment of paralysis. it's better than incineration at the moment. now obviously incinerating plastics is just about the worst thing you can do anyway. so that's quite a low bar to reach. we've seen some studies that suggest that if you can mechanically recycle, then chemical researching doesn't tend to be better than that. but there are some tradeoff said because you're in product from chemicals. ducting is equipment to virgins that can be used more applications. another factor is efficiency. today, according to simon hand, powerless is plant lose between 20 and 50 percent of the input material. so for one ton of virgin life, perilous is all you need up to 2 tons of input material after one hour. and that's how the rubber turns into this carbon black. and it's basically like coal and goes

back into tire production because this is what ties i'm made off like 40 percent of the tire is the so called carbon black. and as the name suggests and turns everything quite black. but there is more apart from the gas and the carbon black. you also get this, which is a relative or it's very similar to crude oil. when you smell it, really also not like gasoline. you can basically make any plan that you want out of it. just need a little more processing. in this case, the processing could be done by german chemical behemoth, b s f. as of now, they are just blending it with their virgin crudo in small quantities that the less the quality doesn't really matter that much. but of course, all these extra steps, cost money, estimates range from $2.00 to $4.00 times the cost of virgin crude oil. yet it's

not important here and i think that the market needs to develop this is yes, mean back box a team lead at b s. s cam cycling project from a technical point of view there will be limitations. you cannot have 100 percent closed because you always need to have a certain and i think that actually we need to develop that process and scale ups at possibility. so far, b s. s customers have used power. this is all in the production of refrigerator part food packaging, and styrofoam boxes. so it's possible to recycle stuff, chemically, when it can't be recycled mechanically, that's already an improvement because it's save some version crude oil. but what does that mean in terms of tackling the plastic crisis? let's look at europe for that in 2020 european collected 29500000 tons of plastic waste of at about 35 percent, was recycled? 23 percent ended up in landfills and 42 percent went into

energy recovery and most of what went into energy recovery about 8000000 tons of plastic. could in theory be chemically recycled in europe alone? the technology does make sense because it can recycle stuff that we couldn't otherwise, and that's better for the environment, but only compared to simply burning plastic. and that's a pretty low bar. i mean anything is basically better than incineration chemically . recycling is not a silver bullet. we still need to think about how we can avoid plastic waste in the 1st place. there are no silver bullets, whether that be for recycling tires and sharing digital privacy or securing energy supply and a time of war that shouldn't stop the world from trying. and that's all for this edition of mate and germany. you can find previous episodes made on our website, w. com slash business for back next week. and until then take care. after all

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