going 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 janelle dumas on. welcome. the european space agency is meeting in paris to outline its priorities for the next 2 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 bad 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. but how far in the future, the idea of extra terrestrial power plants has been around for decades?

since then, our 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. there is a senior manager for air buses, blue sky division, that's the one that deals with future technologies. welcome, john dominique. first off, are we really going to see 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 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? if it's a really good question. so the, in the, the, the energy will be sent via beams. so these are, as i'm not exactly lasers like the one from the desk or it's weird here raise of microwaves, energy. so microwave, typically something that you do not see and that has

a lot less power density as something and laser. so it's really the amount of energy you sense is really you only distribute it. and in a way that you could actually just walk through to be without much hustle. now if you really want to be extremely safe, it goes, we already put some measures like using a radar 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 reco. 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, ian ministers table this project later today like we've been talking about, what are you expecting? so i expect that they will agree to fund a technology program which you half he breaks that are needed

to get to that space bissell, of our concepts. and the beauty of that is that this technology breaks, they're really pushing the boundary of, of relax or makes of, you know, finances 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 breaks. 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 those on an environmental and sustainability. 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 questions for us as an aerospace company, as now a 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 $31.00 to lead that translation one to lead that across the board of edition in space to, for us. this is an extremely good case of using space or aerospace or at the coffee to, to bring sustainability to the well. so really believing that den on top of that we see interesting applications. so to new businesses, 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 the united sector and be closer to our industry we. we would love to power aircraft with that. 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 for startups without much financial backing. ne 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 a many satellite entertainment heavily on take on me. if you see hon. yes, i launched the 1st one into space. when i was 16. it's about the size of a rubik's cube, and i believe they have a replica here. they, they had to take a long time 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, lawson that i was a milestone to have launched my own satellite at 16 to have raised the money myself . i had even gathered all the knowledge online in forums and scientific papers. i only know it was all the most idea that all the sunday gonzalez co founded foster's systems with fernandez giving up his permanent job to do so. he's just 27 years old, but youth has its advantages and disadvantages, which are implicitly them all over 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 forwarded 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's space or fossil systems now has $23.00 employees. earlier this year they celebrated another milestone when a space ex rocky carried their satellites on board. ah street this albany, this in what to be thought. yes, i believe this home on now we have 13 satellites in orbit. they're a little bit bigger, they're evolved, it will, if you're not, 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 on the f

. c math calculus, algebra. there's still lots, i have to learn a voice was on go check it out though. yes. and this is who them, 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's. 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 in charlotte by 2045. that yearly investment figure will need to be doubled, says the bank, australia's parliament passed bilateral free trade agreements with india and britain. the deals are crucial for australia, which is seeking to diversify its exports from the chinese market. the deals still

need to be ratified by the british and indian parliament's. a casual italy's new right when government under your yo maloney has signed off on its 1st budget. the bill includes 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 is 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. if you're not farmers room act the

companies and we have developed a solution for producing food in a hyper local sense. the supermarkets are restaurants and grocery stores. thanks to hydroponics technology crops like basil dill and let us are grown just 200 meters from where they're sold. the new technology means no fields, no pesticides, no transportation, or 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 in 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 our 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 there are the synthesis of a plant 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 lose. ah ah, with

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