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to tennis, tennis has she survived oh, spits, thanks to music. he was the nazis favorite conductor. he is morally degenerate. ah, 2 musicians under the swastika, a documentary about the sounds of power, inspiring story about survival at home. i don't get the tennis. i was the only one what light and look music in nazi germany. watch now on youtube. d. w documentary. ah, ah, with hello and welcome to e coffee. good. be safe from germany? i am sandra green over and so place tice. it's representing the shield side by side
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with a wonderful co host right here in one of your major capital's at also home till partner broadcasted deed abuse. yes, we are delighted to be here in front of the brand. the gate. one of the city is both. i on a land bug where couldn't purchase. it's currently about 5 degrees ashes. so why all this facility should be asking are green energy can paw on a pok entries. so sandra shaw will start with a quick preview for to store good idea uninformed. coming up the we have green energy from hydrogen med in the media and we visit a danish island driving to become was on emissions read off post reports, however, deals with a more controversial side of energy production. the earth may beat in
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a lump rate, but the global so for oil and gas remains, this issue will and that's, we've observed over and over again. companies will go to great length to ensure the supply keeps flowing. regardless of the consequences was suddenly open the environment. the pays the heaviest price in the long run. in cynical, despite processed by the local fishermen and environmentalists, the government approved the construction of offshore oil fields are equally reported when to see how it is affecting the country. like many other fishermen on senate golf coast baka, jo, use a fishing line or small mess. he's been going out to sea for 30 years. these men former fishing grounds with 10 kilometers offshore, but it's out of bounds as an energy firm will start shipping liquefied natural gas there soon. the fishermen now fear even less catch and of mainly small fish, like sardines, or cutlass fish continents. any other nor domino here off the cynical east coast
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that used to be an incredible number of fish. but now to make a large catch, we'd have to take the boats to martina for 3 to 4 days. god, so, but we don't have a license to fish there longer live or if we got caught fishing there without a license, we'd be arrested da da, da da da morton. no longer the la, visible on the horizon is the platform where the ellen g tankers will dock in one of the coastal areas richest and fish. local fishermen aren't allowed within 500 meters of it. and beyond that is a restricted zone. the l n g terminal has been anchored offshore, so a british oil and gas company can ship the fuel from here. a move that has angered fishermen and environmentalists alike the area off the coast of synagogue and martina is home to large schools of fish as well as many dolphins. it also boasts one of the
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world's largest cold water reefs. the production platform is located less than one kilometer away. the nearly 600 kilometer long reef forms a huge marine ecosystem rich and diverse varieties of micro organisms. algy and fish who the government of senegal has approved an environmental and social impact assessment, commissioned by gas firm b p. but even scientists working in the affected area are very skeptical forms. i think you fear foster, the criticism is justified because they didn't go where they should have to get the most up to date information about the area of law ms. and for marcial navy blue, i saw the dollars they did the study without any partner, sandy utah and didn't involve the relevant institutions and the 2 countries working on these issues. i also say berlin metrics issa just last
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year, they took part in a norwegian study, which found that the large reef extends much further into synagogue coastal area than previously thought to last year or now up. and if it inter differ, we are in the process of conducting a reference study, but not that as india got their co vasa, we're going to take certain indicators and follow them up as they extract gas and oil, the petrol it. then we'll see what the impact is. negative, either neutral or positive and negative will be it. but i don't think it'll be positive, it does impact both was it? if mission crop according to b p, the platform will produce some $2500000000.00 tons of gas starting next year, and twice as much in the years thereafter. 5 percent of the gas will go to cynical and 5 percent to neighboring mauretania. synagogue government has yet to comment on whether it's taking the fisherman's concerns seriously or how it plans to protect
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the marine ecosystem. also our questions about whether the resources will benefit the country and be used, for example, to improve its energy supply remain unanswered. the pan african angio don't gas africa points out that the project, not only harms fishermen and the environment, the countries involved don't benefit much financially either. it don't fully coupled to puzzle one and a 90 percent of the gas is being exported. and that's what we don't want goes key culture. it can't be that all the gas produced in synagogue is exported internationally to run other countries. industries. it is while we fail to build industries in our country. awfully, says industry. ellen g tankers are already waiting outside the port of dakar. global demand for gas has increased due to the war and ukraine. but europe has agreed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies soon. due to serious concerns, the german government has not yet decided whether or not the gas should be imported
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at all. inca dawson's interest in germany has made a clear, international commitment not to support fossil fuel investments with public funds in the st. james, after the energy crisis and the start of the war and ukraine, we must focus on supporting renewable energy and climate protection world wide. she muscles, i don't see how else we can achieve our climate target if we're still developing new oil and gas field worldwide. that simply won't work. she didn't finish given the threat to fisherman's livelihoods. organizations like don't gas africa are calling for more investment in renewables and environmental protection for. but if, if you can't cause damage to our country, luck and environmental catastrophe here to benefit other countries or go to the meanwhile, for barca, zhao and his fellow fishermen, they look into an uncertain future. a drop in the demand for gas might cause the government to rethink its strategy. but until this could happen,
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synagogue fishermen will continue to struggle. what better place to talk about entity here and bell lane than here? known as the gossip meter. it was built in 19 o 9 and was once one of the 3 largest gas story tanks in europe. but it ran out of service as $9.00 to $95.00. and it's now a historical monuments. and maybe that'll exceed the case because the fisa belongs to vin, energies like hydrogen. did you know of odd louise, a german company making plans to produce hydrogen in the media, and have it sent to market here in europe? yeah, it sounds like a win win situation, because as i understand it, the energy used to produce the hydrogen will come from renewable sources like solar and wind. let's find out more a team from the germany, energy company and our truck, our owner research to accel k,
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a national park installed in the media. they are looking for the best location to erect wind turbines. as part of a 10000000000 euro energy project. where we are right now, some of the world's best on shore wind, we know is, is really well class resource. 15 kilometers to the east. we have a solar sites which is some of the world's best sailor. so within a very close proximity, we have very good renewables. the media has disseminated an area 100 kilometers long and 80 kilometers wide for the project. from 2025, some 600 wind turbines and to solar farms will deliver as much energy as 7 nuclear power plants. water from the near by ocean will be pumped here by pipeline. it will be used to produce hydrogen, which will be shipped to germany for its energy supply. hydrogen can be used to
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fuel buses and cars. power chemical plans, who's metals to use, or simply heat homes and businesses. aside from the media, gemini also has plans for mega projects in other countries, including in autocratic ones. altogether, it is investing in 10 different countries. i have hundreds, we have trade ties with autocratic states where there's no press freedom and we have to deal with that at the same time we will still have to solve the energy transition and climate crisis. in this context, you always have to be prepared to compromise. an attorney is the farm managing the largest project, vested north east germany. it is a pony in the wind power industry. more than 1000 wind turbine,
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some monitored here they're not drug was the 1st company to produce hydrogen using wind power. a pilot project in full commack region informs it's walk in the media and elsewhere. that's what we do in don't recall what the scope of what we're doing here in the ok. mark it size is very much comparable to what we're planning to create in namibia, the guys from within but been w a familial gone for a lot. this area in the ogre mark is also comparable to the area in namibia we're hydrogen is set to be produced. oh, then we've been torn off load the rates. many residents still support the new project. so people are quite excited with this project that it's coming to units. ah, because out they see a lot of development coming into town. they see
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a lot of employment coming to town. they see low cost electricity and anything else . so um, i would say people doesn't have much critical views, but in the back of our heads also, we think we hope that it's not up. you know, it's not a corruption thing. everyone will actually benefit from the project around lewd ritz thousands live in poverty. they have electricity and water, but it t is expensive. the equivalent of for euro's sense for 10 liters is often too much light for these resident to the machine. now low to put it, look at it in and show the money you know soon, you know, cyril, he lives in the nominal because we want to supply both additional electricity and
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water from our project to the people of namibia and also the town of litter. it's currently has to bring water in from a very far distance and we can over build our water purification and dissemination . facility to provide water to the both europe and africa could turn to gain immensely from project life these wall watson undertaken. it will be interesting to see how these progress, but that's just one example of future energy production. take a look at all this. whereas the all risk campus in berlin, where over 5000 people work study will do research in the fields of energy mobility as soft, full ability. while it is an amazing place, especially as what people here, a walking to it's one goal to intervals so many to achieve them reaches targets of covering 80 percent of his energy needs from renewables by 2040. but i
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thought tod, it's realistic for africa. well, we'll come here to talk to an excellent from the mid quarter research institute on global comments on climate change. mr. felix, quite sick to find out not most science. people say that to really slow the climate crisis. we must onto renewables and still pieces will still fuels could be example from the b b of wible motor. well, the future. yes. i think the example of no media very interesting because it deployed a lot of hydrogen, which is very, very important for your company zation. but it's also offered the oppertunity to get clean and a to city and also clean water for a b b. so i think it's good opportunity just to what extent can fortune, what is the coda project? despotic in northern africa, for example, never really quarter the grind. the original idea was to supply you are please in the tree. stevens generated on sun drenched solar farms in the sahara. do you think
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the technology is there to make this possible at some point? if you need large scale projects and they're viable in principles, perhaps doesn't take was 10 or 20 years too early? i think it's important to design the project that both continents africa and your profit from the projects. and it's also important to differentiate between, between countries, between because countries have different needs and also potential, okay. it looks like it is possible to create some sort of green added cooperation between offers in europe. so why projects like to show oil platforms, aid, senegal, still been implemented? isn't that a huge tax to the wrong direction? i totally agree. it's a huge step in the wrong direction. you don't need additional gas, like your must come off gas very quickly. and instead, invest into clean energy portraits like that, and i'm not part of your work involves the term lead greenhouse emission levels and
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lots cities, legal and kyra, just 2 of the mega cities of the african come to me, it not what would help to get cities to turn away from climate damage and practices more quickly said 2 things, 2 important things to go forward. first, cooling, say important in housing, in african cities in many countries. and it's important to have clean energy from photo tax and vent falling. and transportation is also very important and for that it's very important to have electric buses and a trembling base instead of private motor vehicles that will make a main difference in should be the focus of transportation policies. while this is perhaps the most difficult question to answer, how can we turn the tables on climate change? it's of a difficult question indeed. and there's not enough action on climate change. the good news, the f, vate,
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low cost renewables year for low cost electricity and transportation. and if it conditioning heating system to heat pumps, it's happening globally. it's not happening at the right speed. we need toppling of speed to make it happen, that no extreme heat annoying, extreme precipitation for people to hit people worldwide. i would like to hear from you if you want to send it out for the african audience. what is that limiting factor that he's hindering them from taking up fashion models? the main problem here is that finance think it's more difficult than far call a guess for, and it's all about financing. it's economically viable, but finance it gets more expensive and lower interest rates are very important. thank you very much. dunker. we love bullying and took a short road trip to the neighboring state of brandon back, which banks, green energy with subsidies. now, when considering how communities can be empowered with green energy mix,
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moto says to walk with what you've got. now, africa, where i come from, has sun want year old. as you can see has a lot of weight. they can say that again sandra, but regulations in germany, big install in large wind turbines like this. somewhat difficult, it can take years to get approval, but thus the, the case everywhere. peace in europe, the dentist island a one home wants to become a list, environmentally speaking, the greenest island on the planet. but just how close are they to achieving that goal? let's see. i know the looked like it right now, but this highland might be the best island in europe and even the world, not because of its sandy beaches or its architecture or year round world, whether so cool, but because it's maybe the greenest island in the world. all the energy produced
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here is with the reuse, a lot of their wasted and reviving their struggling economy by becoming more sustainable. so how did they become the greenest island? can they keep it up and what can we all learn from them? the 1st step was to reduce waste the common problem with islands is that waste can pile up quickly and can be expensive to ship out. many islands, especially those with lots of tourists like bali. i heavily polluted with plastic and other trash and burn a lot of it on the island. which used to be similar here too. he'd already have to thought they household waste into 6 categories and they wanted about to 12. and the waste at the recycling yard is divided into 40 categories to make recycling easier and more efficient. looking beautiful. so
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many businesses on bonham and also recycle their own waste so that it doesn't even have to make its way to the recycle like this fiber which is left over from producing rape. see the real because this directly from the from are you still have a little bit of waste leaves and stuff like that which we are taking away also and that we are pressing into pellets. which way he think is saving money. so no need to buy oil gas or anything in this sustainable hotel. a lot of the furniture is made of wood that would have been thrown away shower water is we used to flush the toilet and to add a whimsical touch, this path is made from old glass bottles. and that doesn't mean bonham is completely waste free. some hazardous trash still gets lanfield and about a quarter of it gets burned. the goal is to sort the waste so well that nothing has
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to be banned at the latest by 2032. that's when this plant will have to shut down because it will be too old. the 2nd that was to stop reducing their own energy and become less depend on electricity for elsewhere. islands especially, are often dependent on the mainland or even other countries, providing them with energy which can become expensive. up until a few decades ago, bonham's energy came from almost a 100 percent fossil fuels. but not anymore. we have solar panels of photovoltaics . we have a bio gas system on bonham and of course also wind turbines on shore. some of the solar panels were developed, especially for bon home like lees windowpane. once many businesses send their organic ways to a bio gas facility where it's turned into energy most of the remaining electricity and some of the heat on bonham is produced by burning wood chips.
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although wood is renewable banning it is one of the dirtiest ways of producing energy it emits a lot of seo to. that's why bonham is planning to use less of it. another hitch was the same problem. a lot of other places have people are very, very fond of. well that will a little, i think we all are. and of course this is the discussion always when you put a winter around the you can really see them. many islanders were against windmills in their back yard. therefore our local politicians exit well, our food is not to put up more winter, both on shore. we will put off shore on their, sadly enough, when for wind power, bonham's harbor is already full of offshore wind turbines, which are going to be installed a few kilometers off the coast. and on top of that, they face a well known problem. what to do when the wind stops blowing and the sun stopped shining,
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the energy produced in peak time needs to be stored for when none is generated is going to pull of a massive energy storage capacity here on more from. so what is morton sold? it basically assault that we will milt on, on putting in electricity. so process electricity from the windshield much window arriving. and then we renewed it need energy didn't we just put water into it and creech steam and then we produce heat and power. so therefore, we can contain a lot of energy for a long period of time. actually the around 20 charging station scattered across bonham, which is not a lot electric cars are still more expensive than gasoline ones. meaning it's a hard switch to make if you're not the richest regions. once more of them on the street, their own home plans to use the car batteries to also store some excess energy which is already happening on a test basis with these electric cars that are owned by the islands municipality.
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another big problem is this very because it runs on marine diesel and as a very dirty there's some discussion about hydrogen oil, electric engines, which are cleaner. but it's still very early days. change can be slower than wanted, especially if you can't just throw money at a problem. i strongly agree that all people want to do the right thing and the most green thing, but they have to be able to afford it also at the same time. that's why a lot of the efforts here are co funded by you or governmental programs or are set up as experiments that companies collaborate on and invest money into it. so of course, all of these efforts, so mean the entire island is super green and the super eco friendly politics, dawning technologies and missing fund can get in the way and delay program. there's still a lot of things we can learn from this tiny island experimenting away on the baltic sea. you can't just copy what was done here and paste it anywhere, but you can copy the core idea, which is make the faint ability, the easiest,
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most logical and cheapest way of doing things. and where this isn't the yet, we need incentives like ramping up taxes on fossil fuels, subsidizing electric transport, or investing in experimental projects like this one. well, it's true or the say time flies, when you have it fun. take a look at that few. were standing on the roof top at the dw political office, and you can see the whole city from up here. i've really enjoyed this opportunity to meet as bang time with our production partners in presence. thanks for the invitation. next week, i'll be back present in the show front, somewhat warm are region nigeria and hopefully we should be back year for solar shoots. what do you think? i think it is a brilliant idea, greece and renewed banks for me too. it was indeed a pleasure to be in berlin. i especially liked the wind turbines in the german countryside, very impressive to look hands. and it's all of you, our view as
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