theresa initial testers are already underway. how does the new tractor missouri eco africa next on dw, ah, rearing to read. ah, everyone who loves books has to go insane. the d. w. literature list, 100 german must reads i hope you have a heart of a sokulaf economy. it's when nothing gets thrown away and the most is made of the available resources on a farm in been in. they've been following this practice for 40 years. welcome to

a new episode of equal africa. mine m e's sondra teen of you coming to from compiler. here in uganda, and the one wall come from me, chris, the loan. the no good sleep nigeria. sondra. i'll show this week is also a little like, but secular economy. all the pieces fit together perfectly on today's show. how people in mother gus got a cookie with grass. all st. him is conducting research on green steel and how solar energy is being harvested on the surface of reason was your routes in the fields and you hear a loud throbbing, ang, jane, and smell the stench of diesel. is that really progress? well, anyone who wants to trade in the iraq sport tractor usually has to buy

a diesel pod vehicle. but there are more environmentally friendly alternatives as this project in run that shows. ah, it's just a normal working day for members of the decorum cooperative. nikki galli, the village is still the a fields by hand. the many help as a busy, full weeks, chicago shock cultivating a large area like this using just hose is difficulty element, we do it because there's no other options. i his, i, if we had a cultivation machine, congo we could produce more with less effort. there are a few tractors around, but often they're older vehicles that were no longer wanted in europe. they tend to be noisy and dirty. diesel is also not always available. and rising fuel costs mean that they're often economically and viable from the outside. the solution looks remarkably similar. a to point to tom tractor with

a 27 was car engine. but the motor is electrically palate. a german comic a developed this e tract, a prototype along with the university of to galli, and the g. i said german development agency at sun convert a diesel truck into an electric truck. toys, see, we just replace the diesel engine with an electric motor and put the battery on top of that. and there you see the swapping desk, you see the 2nd battery on, on this desk. and when you come in here, you can move forth and back down. then with that you can release the battery and show it back and put the full battery on the truck road. so if we can then resume working, the batteries are charged using solar energy. solar electricity isn't just clean. it can also be used off great. only half of one days actually connected to the grid, burnett, mackenzie, queen,

and his team from the diversity for one day. a working on making the batteries more robust so that the tractor consume go to work on the dusty sunbaked fields. rhonda needs it, tucked up for other quarter mechanization to beat user friendly because of for reducing the a depletion. fatherly it to re maximize the productivity. agricultural product is rwanda has to increase its agricultural productivity to help feed it's rapidly growing population long periods of drought link to climate change or increase the pressure to make farming more effective and sustainable. the fact that the e tractor is intended for use and more remote areas is a particular challenge for the developers in the team of v w engineer who the laggy the main point is to make an electric tractor as simple and easy

as possible because it should be easy to operate and the other thing is as when it is simple and easy to maintain and to repair, to make the tractor suitable for working with landon fields, the prototype has to be further improved. nevada. so the team of developers traveled through the country speaking to potential future uses wherever you are of the want import, how the attack factor to be designed. what will be the task of that? that does collector and we or so on to, to taking into account some other activities that can be done by that tractor. and plowing isn't the only job the tractor should be able to tackle here in rwanda, productivity and funding areas can only be increased if other foaming jobs can be

automated, as well as the develop as a testing whether it can be harnessed to help irrigate the crops today we are testing the font being operated on an electric tractor. so you can use it for cultivation using your or your plow that could be a disk plow. then you can also hook up a planter to roll for a plant i can pu, than you can use it for planting. and then other tasks that we can use, the instructor is for spraying. that is your crop protection for pests and diseases . all tasks that have been carried out manually up to now. many farmers cannot imagine that the e tractor is going to be ready any time soon. but they do realize what a difference it might me if you're young, if there really is such a tractor and it's available to us, it will be seen as a liberator for farmers. because we won't have to work so hard to get our work done . the each after is going to be ruled out in 2020 formed. the idea is that it will

be purchased by an entire village rather than an individual farmer managed by cooperative. the vehicle will make a lot of tosses easier. so don't forget to blame. we've just seen how philip panels help run electric tractors in rhonda. but the sun can be harnessed on a much larger scale. even if the sun doesn't shine as much in europe. more and more countries via our investing is solar pox. that is right, crease in 2021 solar energy production in the rope in union rolls by 19 percent. but that's nowhere near enough to reach europe slime in gore's funding space for solar pucks in densely populated countries isn't always easy. the one business man in portugal has come up with a brilliant idea. here on portugal, al cave are reservoir. europe's biggest floating solar park covers the equivalent

of 6 football pitches. it can only be reached by a short boat trip, one on which miguel tathina has been giving many interviews. it's taken 7 years with the energy company team to bring the 5 mega water photovoltaic array to completion is working. and if for you the food by everybody, what is the potential that we have here on our hands? this is natalie selling energy. that is the my purpose. oh, our purpose in my theme is at 50 things that are sustainable. or if a rhythm and use the least resources are the minimum resources as possible. the energy company is investing heavily in renewable energy. solar currently only makes up 6 percent of the countries energy mix bought an advantage of floating so

the parks is bad that they occupy spaces that could not be used otherwise. and being on water energy production is more efficient than on land. as the panels don't heat up as much and are likely to last longer, the panels must be kept clean to produce as much energy as possible. that job requires a good sense of balance and patience. but eventually, robotic cleaners will take over the task. 1500 local households receive clean energy from the system that's been fine. and mainly by portugal, state energy provider, e d. p. rocker for their whole rock of surfaces that can be used and her skill real p yes is just as they are more power of course, respecting while the environmental conditions that you have, it's scalable. it's compromise very to the other sources is not an alternative. it's a complimentary so it's a solution to go further and recruit spoof of her changing and the colonizing

the array connects to the grid by the hydro power plant in the damn excess solar energy can be stored or used to pump water back into the reservoir to generate hydro electric power, the 12000 panels and 25000 floaters on the al, give our reservoir have been tested to withstand water, wind, and rough waves. the floaters are made in this factory in cash that yet in spain's alcantur region. one carillo's at amanda is one of the engineers behind the technology. they're made from recycled poly thin plastic, and they're selling like hot cakes. and i'm a for back in them. prefer yoga, feel north of living we're. we're just a little company, but we grew ever recent years ago, but now we're 20 people who work on the design, the commercial side and engineering. if anavia yolanda, april 7th,

and it was the website blunt liberals and on the production site, we're talking about $30.00 to $40.00 workers that weren't that are hot and must reduce understand does plan, but it's a real success story. fernandez and immune groupons who set up the company together in 2008. they are now adapting their floaters to other environments, such as sewage plants or agriculture waste facilities. the okay, the array covers less than one percent of europe's largest artificial lake. and it appears, planning a much bigger floating array on the lake as part of portugal, push for 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 these towers have ins mark in portugal. and the example to the world as well, with our 1st project in a hydro, them, and then placed a benchmark in all utilities in the world, especially in asia. as you, there were very keen on these projects because they have large dams and they also

are important to the energy problem to, to solve. and they will ramp up exponential, especially with these type of projects. so we can expect to see many more thes floating solar parks around the world in future. from floating ceremonies, we moved to something heavy and extremely energy intensive to make still every year in europe. more than 150000000 tons of still are produced. emitted massive amounts of component, your site for each ton of still $1.00 tons of carbon dioxide i released. but the still industry has an ambitious goal to become climate neutral by 2050. now research has kicked into high gear. here is an example from sweden. it takes a lot of energy to make steal temperatures well over a 1000 degrees celsius. i needed cooking coal is generally used to produce the heat

. and while that's bad for the climate, it still commonly practiced in the industry. like here at sweden's s s r b steel works, we actually feel the, the blast furnace with iron or pellets and that is iron outside. and then we make it in layers with cooking call. and then we, we blowing hot air in for the last furnace and the, the co mel, the iron and anthony, since we get the would do, according to the world steel association, steel production accounts for more than 7 percent of all global carbon dioxide emissions. in order to produce steel more sustainably, ss arby has started a pilot project in collaboration with a mining company and the swedish energy provider. but in fall, we realize that we might have a chance know to out compete to the direct use of fossil fuels in industry with

this electricity coming from fossil resources. the new plant works with hydrogen generated from renewable sources. hebrews to stands for hydrogen breakthrough ion making technology. instead of using coal, we can use hydrogen to lose reduction. so hydrogen gas combines with the oxygen in an or, and we get i. and then we get waterway brains that what we're per can be condensed recirculate reduced in the process so that we really solve the root cause off up carbon dioxide emission from still making hybrid started operations a little more than a year ago. and tests are still ongoing. only a few 100 tons of green steel have been produced so far. we know working on the scale up of this technology to make the 1st plan to that what we call the

demonstration plant with a capacity a 1350000 tons a year. and we hope to have that on stream by 2026, attempting to go green is worth the effort for isabella, se steel experts because in sweden, resources are still relatively cheap compared to those in other european countries, such as germany branch. we initially contest the u. s it widely known that sweden has an abundance of hydro, electric power, and that is one major factors that usual he but the amount of steel produce. there is also significantly less or maybe a 10th of what germany produces, for instance, is killing us like to see include on to in sweden also has huge or deposit so or is no longer mine. here in germany you're kind of notes. so the conditions here are completely different, hudson, or nevertheless, a number of companies such as automobile manufacturers are interested in the technology, especially in light of the rising pressure on manufacturers to produce more climate

friendly steel production is constantly being modified to both lower costs and increased volume, because the demand for steel is high, and that includes for building wind turbines and solar parks, which will produce the energy needed for the steel industry to really become green lake. still, you have to reach a temperatures of at least 1000 degrees celsius. a delicious bolt of 4 or 4. however, underneath what's to be briefly heated to 100 degrees and then start husbanding. but too many people in africa still cook using fire? no students in madagascar, i'm doing their beat. and how formed an alternative? let's have a lic ah 30 years ago a forest stood on this now barren landscape, just 10 percent of the natural forest cover remains in madagascar. deforestation is

destroying the habitat of many species that are indigenous to the island. huge numbers of trees are also burned down to make room for farm. and oh, the practices especially prevalent on the southern part of the island country and evermore. trees are cut down to make charcoal. many of the islands residents cook on open fire grills, but there is an alternative to environmentally damaging charcoal. sustainable poets made from a grat that grows all over the island. in the nathan, even in this kind of grass is common here. what trees and grass we still have just get senselessly burned. when thinking about the problem, we thought why not turn the grass that the people burn into pellets pellets. once the grass is dried, it's cut, compacted and formed into small pellets. the local association arch pair came up

with the idea. they're committed to renewable energy sources. together with german students, they developed a small energy efficient cooking stove. the project receive support from the university of applied sciences into seldorf. arch bare hopes to bring both products to the market as soon as possible. we are planning to make like a massive mass production of the said pallets. and at the same time, mass production of the specific stove that these are not, these are compatible with this. i believe they intend to sell the grass based pellets for 30 bye st. less than charcoal. 35 kilograms would cost 3 years instead of for the stove, they designed as planned for mass production here and under lam and go ok. they raised money for the project by a crowd funding and from german donors. grass

from making pellets is also being planted. the project succeeds at 2 objectives, creating jobs while slowing down the deforestation of madagascar. and how about you? if you are also doing your bit, tell us about is visitor website both send us the tweets hash tag doing your best. we share your stories. less deforestation and more jobs solving to problems that was in keeping with the aims of a circular economy that we mentioned art this thoughts over shill? exactly. sandra and add this on guy farm in benign they've been using this practice since, but 198 is but just how did they do it?

oh, good. everything's part of one big cycle and the song i an occasional center, which was founded nearly 40 years ago by father godfrey exam with joe a man with a mission in some of your is not only an dana priest, he is also a professor of microbiology and an uncompromising advocate of 0 waste agriculture. the condition agricultural is inefficient is expensive, is not affordable, killing the environments, and impoverish and great it is. blend on the export in wealth and put in poverty. he sees the solution is secular food production, building an integrated agricultural system that recycled nutrients at every stage. the 1st song i sent out was set up in benita capital, put a novel in 1985, several other african countries now have them to all the was close into here. there

are some my groups, microorganisms. good ones that are recycling them, capture in the solar energy that water is now powerful and rich. so we'll use that water amount to irrigate and take this one. now we can feed our animals, the fuel fight, water flows into some guys, many fish farms. we are catfish anti lapierre, feed on pellets produced on site from the byproduct of civil harvests. all this is worth water. recycle, run of water. not a drop goes to waste. after passing through the fish fans, the water is infused with nutrient rich manure and used to irrigate crops. we can grow 3 times a year, 6 months by her, her use in the west from the big room, from the chicken, from any other thing here. the become immediately neutral. if you look at the pop or the papa. c will water them without want to see how it is. the rest of the

harvest is eaten on site, or it's sold to the community at nearby groceries towards eva in reform or processing to nutritious products. the rest goes to feed the centers, 4 legged friend. this is produce with a droppings for dallas, where there wasn't a unit. and zip how the loaded even the via gas that's good to run machinery and equipment is produced on the premises. we use the gas proclaim for lighting and generating electricity. so tell you this year, if every community can generate its own energy compound in development, the closed loop system seems like an ecological paradigm. but there's only so much that one patch of land can do for some guy to succeed in its mission of transforming african agriculture. they need to ensure that these cleaned technologies, proliferate or of song guy,

is really training. we have this young people who say for it in months, on average, every year we're sending about $400.00 young people. yeah. going to just really one of them is antoni. i let the be. he came from neighboring nigeria for a 6 month course on ecological animal and crop production. with us. i've been here, i'll be able to miss people from molly gumbo cynical. i'm an agent where this gets, it gets so unique. it's all. and then once we've done before, when you're done with the program, you can but major impact what i've learned. but not all of some guys. trainees come from so far feel l. e z, g. sue in hated this near by paul or plantation from father. after graduating from some guys training program, he's been busy making it more eco friendly. they don't put on his lap. she'll take the oil palms, for example. live for our parents are using

a lot of chemical fertilizers. there is on grid shameeka may, but thanks to our training, we now use manure as an organic fertilizer for our oil pond. don't fall off a muscle on the map in the book to the new scene that's allowed us to produce better crops when a greater capacity incapacity. if that's mon you is supplied by you source rabbits and more than 3000 chicken. and like some guy you saw fun out there waste into a bio guest system of his own. while renewable bio gas is difficult to transport. so it's best used right where it's due. but it is not a perfect tool even from guy acknowledges that binding mcclain still contribute to the atmosphere as greenhouse effect. that's partly why the center is switching to solar over 100 and 54th of all. take panels have been installed, sofa, and not only on the rooftop. this solar panels is that

a weapon that lash em from on. then if we are producing very sensitive product, autism. so this is providing us shade, so we call it greenhouse. despite all the new technology, which is still a nation, never had this vocation of man to happen. nature, the connected radical clinic to the design of them in full nature. for reality, if you dance with nature and it's always smell of you, so we've come full circle. we started with agriculture in rhonda and ended up the farm in bennett. will they soon be using the tractors there to we'll keep you informed until next week. this is chris illema from ogo states nigeria, signing enough. thank you for watching. as always, you can stay in touch with us and all our social media platforms. it is

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