showing us, it's never too early to start looking towards the stars and the greener way to grow green. we look out one company in sweden, running vertical farms inside supermarket. this is the w business. i'm anal dumas unwelcome. the european space agency is meeting in paris to outline its priorities for the next few years. and renewable energy generation is high on the agenda. more specifically, one idea would see solar energy st wirelessly down to worth have a look. been idea that's out of this world. the european space agency has a vision of a system to capture energy from the sun's rays in orbit and beam it back home the back down on earth. the reality is, it's a vision for the future. how far in the future, the idea of extra terrestrial power plants has been around for decades?

since then, a technological capabilities in space have reached new highs and prices for things like satellites or a fraction of what they once were a major obstacle to overcome is the wireless transmission of energy through the earth's atmosphere in the vacuum of space. experts say could be 2 decades before the solution is within reach zoned of any cost is the senior manager for airbus as blue sky division. that's the one that deals with future technologies. welcome, john dominique. first off, are we really going as he space based solar energy become a mainstream source of power generation? hello you now? well, i believe so, actually the what you heard in the initial jingle to the gate that is the current timeline. we believe that this could be really operational is granted for me, and by the, by, i'm,

we're 2040 and by the time this is the timeline for having a station that is reporting a cd. we're talking about sending gigawatts of power. but on the way to get there, there's a, the road is quite light and we see a lot of interesting application already to power small things like drones, airplanes, factories, small satellites. we can already demonstrate application of the technology in the next 2 to 3 years. now i have to ask, are there any concerns around safety? is there any risk technology like this can be weaponized at all or have i just seen too many movies? this is a really good question. so the indeed the, the energy will be sent via beams. so these are not exactly lasers like the one from the death story we're here raise of microwaves, energy. so microwave, typically something that you do not see and that has

a lot less power density as something later. so it's really the amount of energy you send is really, you only distribute it and in a way that you could actually just walk through to be without much hustle arm. now if you really want to be, if we say, if it goes with already put some measures like using a radar, a system to look at anything that could come close to the beam itself and to stop the beam when somebody would come up with both. so far, but we have records, so with people doing regulation for the energy sector and we do not see this as an issue that's reassuring. i'll take your word for it. so in europe and ministers table this project later today, like we've been talking about, what are you expecting? so i expect that they will agree to find a technology program which you have when he breaks that are needed

to get to that space before our concepts. and the beauty of that is that this technology breaks, they're really pushing the boundary of space to archie, l, sue of power lecture makes of you know, antennas and things like that. so by putting money on the spectrum, you briefly already, you know, enable applications for a lot of things that are using space missions. so we expect them to agree on funding this technology bricks. so you get some on, you know, on us, on our generation, things like that. and we also expect them to agree on a, go a system study, which is a 1st to really look at the end to end viability of the concepts on each of you. but also on an environmental insisted with you. and finally, why is the air of us interested in this particular endeavor? what does airbus get out of it?

so it's sort of the questions for us as an aerospace company, as now and mission for a few years, really phone years, sustainability and aerospace. so the, you know, in addition to family is the next big thing, we want to be able to discover in the, in the 31 to lead that translation. want to lead that across the board of edition in space for us. this is an extremely good case of using space or aerospace that you're at the coffee to, to bring sustainability to the well. so really believing that then on top of that we see interesting applications. so to new business to, to enter the energy markets and to be able to provide, you know, new energy networks over the sky. and over the year, end of our space at which we do together with partners in our sector and be closer to our industry. we, we will love to power aircraft with john domini cost. he's the senior manager for

airbus as blue sky division. thank you very much for your insights now, it's not only industrial giants like airbus who are conquering space or billionaires, as the trend seems to go. space technology can also present opportunities. first started up without much financial backing. meet julian fernandez, who built his 1st satellite in his bedroom. julian fernandez is 19 years old, while others were meeting up to play sports or hanging around. julian was using a soldiering iron to build himself many satellite, implement heavily long take on call me if you see hun us. i launched the 1st one into space. when i was 16. it's about the size of a rubik's cube and all i believe they have a replica here. they have the house a year. it works like a radio tower in space at his madrid university fernandez,

could use equipment that he didn't have at home. well, we're not awesome. that i'm it was a milestone to have launched my own satellite 16 to have raised the money myself. i had even gathered all the knowledge online in forums and scientific papers. i only in law. it was off. they must, they do that all the sunday. gonzalez, co founded foster systems with fernandez, giving up his permanent job to do so. he is just 27 years old, but youth has its advantages and disadvantages, which are symbolism, all of them fume. many companies find it interesting when the founder and the c e. o are under 30, but of course it's also difficult. after all, our competitors are o h. b air bus and boeing zones, or more to read was william fernandez. his idea transmitting small amounts of data easily and cheaply data from agricultural sensors or from remote wind power

plants. the data is radio to the satellite and forward it along. it's all about the internet of things. if he wanted, when one was alone, i decided to democratize access to communication channels and the internet of things. there. space fossil systems now has 23 employees. earlier this year they celebrated another milestone. when a space ex rocky carried their satellites on board. ah, strictly suddenly this in order to be thought, yes, i believe this home on now we have 13 satellites and orbit. they're a little bit bigger, they're evolved, it will sooner. julian fernandez, may be heading a satellite business that competes with giants. but every now and then he has to step out and take on another role. you've been with him in bookcase when a my knowledge is very specific. i still have to go to university to study ione of

c math calculus, algebra. there's still lots, i have to learn a little theatre voice was on, go check it though. yes. and that this you been but even before he graduates with his telecommunications engineering degree fernandez, will have his next batch of satellites launched into space by 2024. he hopes his network of spanish micro satellites will be orbiting the world. not bad for a 21st birthday present. now to some of the other global business stories making news, german businesses invested a total of 55000000000 euros to protect the climate in 2021. that's according to german investment and development bank a f, w for germany to achieve climate neutrality by 2045. that yearly investment figure will need to be doubled, says the bank, australia, parliament passed i lateral free trade agreements with india in britain. the deals are crucial for australia, which is seeking to diversify its exports from the chinese market. the deal still

need to be ratified by the british and indian parliaments. a national italy is new right when the government under georgia maloney has signed off on its 1st budget. the buildings a $35000000.00 euro spending plan focused on curbing energy bills and cutting taxes for payroll workers and the self employed. now agriculture is one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters worldwide, putting it at the center of global debates around climate change. but a start up in sweden is turning conventional farming on its head. pink is not usually the color associated with farms, but it's high time to rethink how food has grown. most farms might still be rural. others sound like an air conditioner and sit in a supermarket. the latter is the solution for a more sustainable future, according to start up sweet green. they run 8 so called vertical farms and grocery stores across sweden of you're not farmers. we are an act that companies and we

have developed a solution for producing food in a hyper local sense in supermarkets and restaurants and grocery stores. thanks to hydroponics technology crops like basil dill and letters, are grown just 200 meters from where they're sold. the new technology means no fields, no pesticides, no transportation, of food in general travels too much. army being port a lot of food from different places on average. it's 40000 kilometers that food flies or travels or take string to her plates. and this is an answer to that. plants are grown and small fiber boxes made of rockwell expert said this makes food grown and vertical forms safer. farming inside a supermarket also means being more energy efficient. according to sweet green, we used the heat that is already generated by the building here which is supermarket to heat or facility. we also use the,

basically the suit so that people breathe out to, to, to concentrate and capture and release it here. so we can race or our c o 2 levels, which means that the photo synthesis of a plan can increase, right? this is most you to available so far, it only pays off to cultivate fast growing crops and vertical farming. right now, the farms only produce leafy greens, still sweet green hopes to make its farming model available to 80 percent of the world supermarkets in the coming years. thanks for watching. ah, with

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