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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 in eas, sondra, queen of you, coming to from compiler. here in uganda and the one wall come from me, chris alone synagogue sleep nigeria sondra up. i'll show this week is also a little like, but secular economy. all the pieces fit together perfectly onto this shill? ah, people in madagascar, a cookie with grass, austria, him is conducting research on green steel. and how solar energy is being harvested on the softness of reservoirs. you're out 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 powered 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 do. couric warburton nicky galley. the villages till the fields by hand. the many helpers a busy full weeks cher club, shaka, cultivating a large area like this using just hose is difficult. humans. 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 we no longer wanted in europe. they tend to be noisy and dirty. diesel is also not always available. and rising fuel costs means that they're often economically and viable from the outside. the solution

looks remarkably similar. a to point to tom tractor with a 2070 was car engine. but the motor is electrically palate. a gentleman call make a developed this e tract, a prototype along with the university of to galli, and the g. i said german development agency. it's on convert a dies tractor into an electric truck door. you see, we just replace a diesel engine with an electric motor and put the battery on top of that. hello there, you've 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 a battery and show it back and put the full battery on the track 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, my and the queen and his team from the diversity for one day and working on making the batteries more robust so that the tractor can soon go to work on the dusty sunbaked fields. rhonda needs it for other quarter mechanization to beat user friendly because of for reducing the day in the pollution fatherly it to maximize the productivity. agricultural product is t. rwanda has to increase its agricultural productivity to help feed it's rapidly growing population long periods of drought length to climate change or increase the pressure to make farming more effective and sustainable. the fact that the chapter is intended for use and more remote areas is a particular challenge for the developers in the team. a v w engineer,

pull the laggy. the main point is to make an electric tractor. s as simple and easy as possible because it should be easy to operate. and the other thing is 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. vacuum so the team of developers traveled through the country speaking to potential future uses wherever you want and port how the tractor to be designed. what will be the task of that? that does collector. and we also wanted to taking into account to some other activities that can be done by that tractor and ploughing isn't the only job the tractor should be able to tackle here in rwanda, productivity and farming areas can only be increased if other farming jobs can be

automated as well, the developers are 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 pull, then 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 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 house full of 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, there are investing in solar pox. that is right, crease in 2021 solar energy production in the rope in union rolls by 19 percent, but bought nowhere near enough to reach europe slime. in gauze, 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, elk river 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 patina has been giving many interviews. it's taken 7 years with the energy company team to bring the 5 megawatt to photovoltaic array to completion. is working. and it's fully understood 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 that 5th, things that are sustainable are ever risen and used the least resources are the minimum resources is 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 pox is that they occupy spaces that could not be used otherwise. and being on water energy production is more efficient ben, 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, 80 p rock for their whole rock of surfaces that can be used. and her skill realty, yes, is just as they are modular. her, of course, respecting law, the environmental conditions, if you have it scalable it's complementary to the other sources is not an alternative. it's a complement period. so it's

a solution to go farther. and 3 crisp is offered, 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 float us on the i'll give a reservoir, have been tested to withstand water, wind, and rough waves. the floaters are made in this factory in cash that year in spain's alec under region. one carillo's at amanda is one of the engineers behind the technology. they're made from recycle to poly thin plastic, and they're selling like hot cakes. and i'm a product in them prefer yoga thing 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. yeah. if anavia you're locked on the other brasil than it was the reps us blunt a little. and on the production site, we're talking about 30 to 40 workers that weren't that are hot and must rebel doesn't in does not plan, but it's a real success story for at and under and immune groupons who set up the company together in 2008. they're 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 80 p is planning a much bigger floating array on the lake. as part of portugal, push for 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 this towers for vents, mark him portugal and the example to the world as well. with our 1st project in the hydro, them, and then placed a benchmark in all utilities in the world, especially in asia,

asia. there was very keen on these projects because they have large them and the also are important sir. and energy problem to, to solve. and they will ramp up exponential, especially with these type of projects here. 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 component excite 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 seed. it it takes a lot of energy to make steel temperature as 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's still commonly practiced in the industry. like here at sweden's s s r b steel works, we actually feel that the glass furnace with iron or pellets, and that is iron oxide. and then we make it in layers. when kogan called, and then we, we blowing hot air into the blast furnace and the, the cold mel, the iron. and as i mentioned, we get theo, 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 now to outcompete the direct use of fossil fuels in industry with this electricity coming from pulse of resources. the new plan works with hydrogen generated from renewable sources. hebrew to stands for hydrogen breakthrough ion making technology. instead of using coal, we can use hydrogen to lose that reduction. so hydrogen gas combines with the oxygen iron or we get and then we get waterway bring in step. what we can be condensed recirculate reducing the process so that we really solve the root cause of carbon dioxide emission from still making hebrews 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. well, working on the scale up all this technology to make the 1st floor to that what's

called a 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 s s, i'll be say steel experts because in sweden, resources are still relatively cheap compared to those in other european countries, such as germany, sweden, the silver country it's widely known that sweden has an abundance of hydro, electric power to that is one major factor. but the amount of steel produce, there is also significantly less maybe a 10th of what germany produces, for instance, is giving us on to in sweden also has hughes or deposits or is no longer mine. here in germany kind of lies nancy. so the conditions here are completely different us. 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 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 close monday. but too many people in africa still cook using fire? no students in madagascar, i'm doing their beat. and how fond an alternative. let's have a look. 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. ready many of the islands residents cook on open fire grills, but there is an alternative to environmentally damaging charcoal sustainable pellets made from a grass that grows all over the island. and the nathan of vanilla is kind of grass is common here, isn't what trees and grass we still have just kit 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 and we are planning to make like a massive mass production of this is paulette and at the same time must production of these the specific stove that these are not. these are compatible with this, i believe they intend to sell the grass based pellets for 35 percent less than charcoal. 35 kilograms would cost 3 years instead of for the stove, they designed his plan for mass production here. and under lemon cokie,

they raised money for the project by a crowd funding and from german donors. grass for making pellets is also being planted. the project succeeds at 2 objectives, creating jobs while slowing down the deforestation of madagascar. and tell about you, if you are also doing your bit, tell us about his visitor website. both send us a tweet. hash tag doing jo base. we share your stories. less deforestation, and more jobs solving to problems. it was in keeping with the aims of a circular economy that we mentioned. art the starts over show exactly sandra, and add the song guy farming, 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 guy and casual center, which was founded nearly 40 years ago by father godfrey exam with joe, a man with a mission in somewhat jaw 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 impoverished great. it is been dawn. the export in wealth important poverty. he says 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 benito capital, put

a novel in 1985. several other african countries now have them to all the was closed into here. there are some microbes, microorganisms, good ones that are recycling them, capturing the solar energy that water is now powerful and rich. so we'll use that. what amount to irrigate and take this one. now we conclude our animals, the purified water flows into some guys, many fish farms where catfish until up here, 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 once by her, using the width from the bigger from the chicken, from any other thing here, they become immediately neutrons. if you look at the poor, poor the, the papa,

c will water them without want to see how heavy it is. the best of the harvest is eaten on site, or it's sold to the community at nearby groceries towards eva in ro form or processing to nutritious. proto, the rest goes to feed the center, 4 legged friend. this is produce with a drop ins. fertilize by there wasn't a unit. and the zip, how long it, even to buy a gas that's used to run machinery and equipment, is produced on the premises. we use the gas proclaim for lighting and generating electricity. so for you this year, if every community can generate its own energy compound 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. court of song guy is really trimming. we have this young people who say 4 months, on average, every year we're sending about 400 young people. yeah. going to just really one of them is antoni unless he be, he came from neighboring nigeria for a 6 month course on ecological animal and crop production. with us, i've been here are able to miss people from molly gumbo cynical. i'm an agent with this cuz it gets so unique. it's only once we move before. when you're done with your program, you can see in fact what i've learned, but not all of some guys. trainees come from so far feel l. e z, you saw in have had this nearby palm oil plantation from his father. after graduating from some guy's training program, he's been busy making it more eco friendly. you know,

put on thought is up to the seal, take the oil palms, for example. for our parents are using a lot of chemical fertilizers. there is on grid shameeka. man, but thanks to our training, we now use manure as an organic fertilizer for our oil pond. don't fall off of my son. some guy on my pending book to the lucille that's allowed us to produce better crops. you see when a greater capacity in capacity. if that's mon you is supplied by you source rabbits and more than 3000 chickens. 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 fuel, even from guy acknowledges that blending the thing still contribute to the atmosphere the greenhouse effect. that's partly why the center is switching to solar. over $154.00 to voltaic panels have been installed so far,

and not only on the rooftop, this solar panels is that a weapon that lash em pump on the news. we are producing very sensitive autism. so this is providing us shade, so we call it greenhouse. despite all the new technology, godfrey, which is still a nation, never had this vocation of man to have nature. the connect at radical going to be designed them in full nature. for reality, if you're dogs with an edge on edge, 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're keeping fall onto next week. this is chris illema from a go states nigeria, signing off. thank you for watching. as always,

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