ah, every thursday on d, w, a interest, the global economy, our portfolio, d w business b u. here's a closer look at the project. our mission to analyze the fight for market dominance, east versus with business beyond ah, ah, ah, the era of cheap energy as well and truly over with the war in ukraine revealing an uncomfortable truth about just how reliant many countries had become on russian oil

and gas from an environmental perspective though, one hopeful scenario is that we may see an accelerated switch to renewables as a response to the crisis. the potential, of course, is huge, but as we'll see on today. so. so are the challenges coming up by offshore wind. farms in greece are drawing protests to harness the heating power of computers and a brief history of electric mobility. i'm k. ferguson. welcome to mate.

the aluminum industry says that's absurd. zones often child ovens like these can't just be turned off like your of it at home. it's an incredibly laborious and cost intensive process and firing them up again. only makes sense if there are major changes in the energy market. i'd like to say not up. there is an energy distribution problem to households. automobiles and businesses need energy. and there are big differences between industries. these branches use 75 percent of industrial energy and are now in big trouble. political action is needed. energy intensive businesses are demanding a europe wind cap on energy prices, as well as state bank aid to keep companies from having to stop production. this is one point businesses and labor unions agree on works councils plan to turn up the

political pressure in the, in again and says in just over 800000 people work in energy intensive industries in germany, which gives us a lot of weight politically with india one got a buy pull, it's 800000 workers means 800000 vote. he left him so we can definitely make a difference. the much present hospice being now the government must decide will energy intensive industries be granted emergency aid or should the state provide relief to employees and will have to find new jobs in the long run? because few believe that energy prices and germany will drop significantly any time soon. on foot, i believe in all, i presume the world aluminum production will shift to places where energy production is cheaper. oh, d e o. if we want to produce in a way that sustainable, that will tend to be in places where photovoltaic energy is available in the

daytime. all year round. all talk, cbo, movies, garcia, the solar energy is dirt cheap. days when we find heavy industries leaving germany would be a horror scenario for economic developer. unclear scotland. 5000 jobs in his region depend on the aluminum industry alone. i'm sure it's rid of. yeah, it'd be great if folks would cut back a bit. so we can keep working on otherwise, i'd gladly lower the heat a few degrees at home. if that means industries and noise can keep going. how much energy and emergency aid will be allotted? germany faces a tough decision. as you'd expect, the energy crisis has led to urgent calls to speed up the green transition. but that is easier said than done. take grief. as an example. the government there wants to shut an all coal plants by the year 2028th. the plan is that by 203070

percent of the country's energy needs will be covered by renewables. in recent years, the island of eva, east of athens, has become an example of how the switch to renewables could knock. it's home to several 100 wind turbines, but not every one is a fan of the venture. and though it might surprise you, some of the loudest voices of discontent are actually coming from environmental groups. in the south of a via you can see wind turbines everywhere. there are 400 in this region alone and more are plant. katerina and yanis belong to an environmental group. fighting against more industrial wind farms. of sylvester de la garza salisa may think it's the same from the mountain at the back all the way to here that 14 more wind turbines are being planned. so each at a height of 185 meters, them there are the foundations and of course the accompanying wide roads that are

fair enough in the ocean. fiancee's roman. ready nature is already under attack here after several devastating wildfires. contrary to what was promised, the area hasn't been re forested. so heavy rains pose a threat to the coastal town. without plants and trees, the water gushes down unchecked. he had rods cracking walls, falling houses, flooding fil we, we experienced all that amount of water coming down with a great force and having nothing to hold it. and now if the turbans do get installed, the entire mountain will be balled, so there will be no for nothing to hold the water, and that could spell the end for these roman ruins. the famous chip, alina marble of ancient greece, was once quarried. here no wind turbine says the banner, the inhabitants of southern india are fed up. they don't even benefit from the

electricity, because it goes to the attic region on the mainland, the underwater cable. instead, residents here are left with the remains of 32 disused wind turbines. it's potentially hazardous water for which no one is apparently taking responsibility. this hikers paradise in the north of the island is also threatened. the energy company motor oil wants to cut down 50000 trees for a wind farm. residents here are outraged and don't understand the reasoning the companies have fair given their environmental studies about this area. i, they opinion is that the distraction of their 50000 threes and they're, they're part of the, of the mountains in this particular area is not gonna affect they'll,

they actually vitamins or the economy or anything. so if we had to the biggest number of people going against it. now, a broad coalition of activists, scientists and politicians, is fighting to preserve this by a t hope. the regions governor is critical of the actions taken by the government in athens, which should thus go for some more energy democracy, 1000000 newport shorted the 2 more and smaller investors to create their own renewables. and also for, for the big was it to have a deeper social control they sort of show for when how into which level they are the developer of the area mission also containing your, fortunately for us and before we, before us is to license the renewables which are nowadays licensed the by the

federal government. many residents believe their objections don't count, even though they're the ones who will have to live with the consequences of more wind turbines. these ugly projects will have a negative impact on the beauty of the place. i think this many wind turbines makes no sense. there are other ways to generate energy like from floating offshore wind turbines in the c, let this and i'm a little bit lyn latham. the race for offshore permit has already begun hellenic petroleum has just signed a deal with german energy giant r w e. starting with a 2 megawatt wind farm at see exactly where isn't yet clear but voting, wind parks out on the high seas and out of sight aren't likely to happen any time soon. they see in greece and still be deep. so if you have to be pretty close to the shore to be able to develop fixed bottom

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it could be enough for a single room measuring 15 square meters. a p c produces 120 watts of waste heat up to 350 watts with a graphics card. a modern apartment building needs at least 30 watts per square meter for heating. so it's enough for the home office. when the p c is running at

full capacity, big data centers are another story. they generate lots of heat and usually must be cooled with air conditioning. that eats up more than half of the energy requirements of a server farm and the heat just dissipates, unused. not so in frankfurt here, 3000 new apartment are already heated, with waste heat from an nearby data center via a district heating network. oh, even better. why not install the heat source right into the building, like a company from dredged in does. instead of a centralized data center, the servers are spread over several buildings. a server cabinet with 10 or 16 computers and the seller can heat a 150 square meter house year round the computers are

networked. no more need for cooling or a server font. the data should be secure because if the cabinet is opened, the system shuts down. and heating with computers is far from reaching its potential. digital association bit come figures some 350000 apartments in germany, could be supplied this way. it's a small part of the country's heating needs, but an important step away from fossil fuels. when you think of the history of automobiles, he'd be forgiven for assuming that electric my balance, he is a rather new phenomenon embodied by signing you. tesla running off the production line. in reality though, electric vehicles have been around for well over a century. they just didn't catch on commercially time to go on a voyage of discovery to find out by this is an electric car. and this and this long before mask unveiled tesla model 3 whole 119 years before,

in fact, a guy called to alberts. pope presented the columbia most of carriage, one of the 1st commercial electric cars. americans loved it and electric cars in general. so much so that's around the turn of the century. they outsold gasoline powered cars. so what the hell happens? almost all vehicles in our streets today, gasoline college. and even though electric cars have come back, they certainly haven't quite broken into the mainstream. but that's about to change . why did electric cars disappear? and why are they going to make it big this time? ah, let's take the 1st question 1st. there were a couple of reasons why the electric car failed and the early 19 hundreds. but ultimately, the problem is the battery. this is tom standards,

the deputy editor of the economist magazine. he's written hold book on the history of the car. the lead acid battery to early cause was very cheap, but it doesn't pack a lot of energy into a small space and it's very heavy. this meant you couldn't go very far and usually under 70 kilometers, even 2 of the brightest minds of the time, henry ford and thomas edison, who wanted to develop the fordable electric cars, were not able to solve this. and so the internal combustion engine took the lead, gradually got more reliable, and the fact that you could just, you know, head out into the roads and you'd probably be able to find fuel for this vehicle in a hardware store or in a cabinet that gave them an edge because people who were buying these early college, which heavily rich people, he wanted to go on adventures, electric. how many cars had one last idea to save that product? there started marketing. it's physically to women because they're clean and quiet times. you don't have to be strong to turn the handle to get them started. so this

will seen is full of feminine attributes. but then most drivers were men. and so the electric car gradually turned into a nice products and then disappeared completely. throughout the 20th century, there have been some attempts to revive them. for example, in the seventy's, when the all crisis had people looking for alternative sources of energy. but the spectrum technology hadn't progressed much. the comic was short lived in the ninety's general motors came out with the evie, one that attracted somewhat of a cult following which ironically might have been a problem for the manufacturer. it all turned out to be a bit of a p all night mad because the more general motors went told about just how wonderful in green and good for the environment. these electric cars were the more the company reminded everybody how bad for the environment all of it's all the calls were ultimately general motors decided to pull the plug. gm denied this, but one reason why electric cars have never made it big is that the kind oil industry probably didn't really want them to welcome to the electric car,

the future sponsored by the gasoline producers of america. oh hi. i get your very, very high. the combustion engine has been a money printing machine for car makers and oil companies, but it now has an expired dates because 2 things have changed. one battery technology has improved. lithium ion battery store, more energy in a smaller space, and they're lighter than lead based batteries. and to the big thing that changes that we are now concerned about climate change in a way that people weren't a 100 years ago, most people hadn't, hadn't thought about a tool. and now we recognized that pumping all of this helped outside of the atmosphere, which we've been doing for the last 200 years or so. he's affecting the climate and therefore we can't go on powering all cause by finding fossil fuels. and so the list of countries planning to ban sales of cars with internal combustion engines is

growing and many that are not yet on. it's like the usa, making it very favorable to buy an e v. car companies are shifting as well. we are waiting for electrifying our entire fleet of cars some faster than others, but many of the major traditional carmakers have set goals for electrifying their fleets and us. we're changing to sales of these on the rise, especially in europe and china. more than half of cow, no se, then next car will be electric. but despite all this, the big picture still looks pretty bleak. around $1300000000.00 passenger vehicles on the roads, and only 1.5 percent of them are electric. change just happens slowly, doesn't it?

well, not really. change actually happens in waves from the flush toilet to the telephone, the microwave, to tv and computers. every innovation that snuck into everyday lives that so in the same way. so if you adopt new technologies very slowly and then very quickly, this is paul drummond, who's been figuring out what this means for electric cars. over a number of decade studies have done been done across a number of technologies in different sectors. we now recognize that technologies typically follow an adoption in the shape of an escrow. to understand what he means . let's look at global smartphone sales starting in 2007. when apple introduced the 1st i phone very at 1st, they only went up slowly. then around 2010, this models have become better and cheaper. sales rapidly shot up. and from about 2016 as more and more people owned a smartphone, they started leveling off and then even dipping

a little bit. this pattern of changed is called an s curve because well, it looks like an s roughly at least we can divide it into 3 phases, emergence, diffusion, and combination. so what does this mean for electric house? it's always difficult to accurately forecast the future, but we can see the electric vehicles have grown in sales very rapidly in 2010 way less than one percent of all cost that was sold where electric by 2021. this shade had grown to almost 9 percent now the tipping probably out of this immersion school, it phase at the 1st place at the us in to widespread diffusion going forward. this means the share of electric cars will shoot up rapidly. how rapidly exactly is anyone's guess butts? and one of pulled romans predictions they could reach around 50 percent of new sales by 2030 it's very likely that we have reached

a tipping point from which there's probably no return. i think the adoption, the widespread replacement holds in terms combustion edgy cars with electric vehicles. at least 4 suits of constant cos ized, probably inevitable. the electric car is finally set to go mainstream. it's only a question of how quickly or it's crazy to think how far electric cars have come and by the looks of it's that jenny has just begun to journey towards a fossil feel free. future certainly have begun, but there's no denying that there's a long road ahead. for the moment we do still rely on dirty energy sources. without thought reality in mind, my colleague left click, i went on an unusual mission to seek out new sources of natural gas. let's see how he got on i think.

2 a small ah, this place is about to explode. ok, so take a step back. ah, my government way. i'd better call robert hobbit, how economist minister, everyone is looking for energy all around the world. this is what it looks like in germany gardens these days. every one is desperately looking for the next energy fix. o blast of fresh air. then quickly closed the window. i've never given much thought to energy until now. it was just there, but now it's not. what about you? the day of extravagant showers are over. i love a hot show,

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