real threats to the region, the lack of water endangered both nature and the economy. focus on europe. in 60 minutes on d, w for people to say, matters to us. mm. that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. a . new and suddenly the sky was empty. no more travel no more passengers. 3 years ago the coven 19 pandemic

brought the aviation industry to a standstill. suddenly, more planes were parked on the ground than flying in the air. many of them were put in storage. now travel has rebounded, but how our mega planes brought back to life. that's one of the topics we'll explore in this week's edition of made. d, w's, business, magazine, and, and other reports. flying without guilt or electric plains on the horizon. fear without facts, who's behind fake news on climate change and solar panels without the ice or our solar tiles? the future it was the biggest ever a crisis in the asian industry. at the start of the pandemic, and 2020, there were 4700000000 air passengers worldwide. as covert 19 took hold. that number plummeted to just 1800000000,

but the industry has recovered with passenger numbers back up to 3800000000 in 2022 . planes are filling up again and not just the small ones. german airline. lufthansa is filling enough seats to put its largest carrier back into operation the airbus a 380. it flies up to $520.00 passengers during the pandemic that meant too many empty seats. so for the past 3 years, 13 of the colossal machines have been parked at a spanish airport. and waking up the slumbering giants doesn't just happen with a flick of a switch. mm. the 1st flight in over 2 years for the airbus a 380. my kilo on its way from terror, well, in spain to frankfurt. shortly after the start of the pandemic lift tons of retired, the a 380, the world's largest passenger plane. other airlines also withdrew aircraft. some

were sent to storage and had a well known as an airplane graveyard. it appeared to be the death knell for the fuel. guzzling super jumbo and expensive plan to run, especially when it's not even full. but now the fact that it has capacity for over $500.00 passengers is once again a major selling point. the a 380 has been resurrected. this summer we'll see looked tanza dispatching at least 6 of the aircraft back to the skies. he won the fortune, come as you can imagine, it's a lot of work, but it's necessary because the number of people flying again has increased suddenly and unexpectedly and aircraft. manufacturers are struggling to meet demand for the fun. jose molina is in charge of dusting off the idol aircraft and getting them ready to be brought back into service. right now. he and his team are working on

the mike mike air bus. 13 air buses were more bold here during the pandemic. the last thing molina ever expected was that they'd make it come back we didn't know was was going to happen. we didn't know how long to suck up. we're going to stay here. we never thought of the circus. we're going to be back on flies, live to disguise, but we really, we are really happy. but finally they have a big but instead of immediately taking off again, they have to be given a thorough servicing to be fit to fly. both the exterior and the interior. jose molina explains that 2 years and deep storage takes its toll on the aircraft, highly sensitive technology. so getting it up and running again is

a massive undertaking. i just see my colleagues, they are removing all the seals, rolling the colors of the angie's removing the colors of the fly. gold of their part of the landing gears, removing all the seals of the doors. so this takes around 2500 hours for 4 weeks of war. on our old 40 people walk in thought off what these are up then. i said i made that is, will be due for another $44.00 weeks. so in total ed weeks for me to put dick back to sounds perfect, the gentleman hanging on the heading plan, $5000.00, take off in frankfort pilot mark is elin fed is out the controls, taking in a 380 to a flight level of 5000 feet or 1500 meters, for now, he still only in a simulator. training captain leesha lens puts him through his paces, testing his ability to control the plane in bad weather. and in the event of a fire on board. the pandemic caused marcus ellen felt hours to be cut, which meant his airbus license was suspended. a few weeks ago,

it was renewed without me found that i was really happy. it was my aircraft. i've been flying the air buses 2014, had to take a break of 2 and a half years and i really missed it. how to puffinburger fairhope. they had lens now has to get as many pilots as possible back up to speed as quickly as possible. early on in a pandemic, lufthansa decided to completely phase out the a $380.00. it was a decision that had immediate consequences or impact. at the moment, there are 128380 pilots ready for service. they're expected to be around 10 cruise for route, for an aircraft like the a $380.00 or cricket in total more than $100.00 pilots are needed by late april. that's quite a challenge. meanwhile in ted well as spain loved tons as 1st

a $380.00 is ready for take off the shad lens and his co pilot mateusz buddha will be flying the mike kilo home. it's an emotional moment as they board the plane and they both flew several of the giant air buses here to terror. well, at the beginning of the pandemic, the house. hm. it's like coming home again, weyerhaeuser of school curriculum. i have a very close attachment to the plaintiff of bynum for them to put my kilo i'm bag. everything's just as it was 3 years ago with one of the fort motto in in flight magazine from 2021. mccarthy. march 20. 20 hunters on murph. when we didn't have a clue, what lay ahead, unquote, or normal me strictly, there won't be anything in the magazine about covered them

in the cockpit lens checks the onboard systems again. yeah, he still can't quite believe he's returning the mike kilo to frankfurt. well, they are, he had to come and bring it down here was really sad. i actually had a lump in my throat when we parked the plane. it was really depressing. my foster premiums and felt like a cemetery. there's a lot going on here to day. there's a lot of work being done on the plains and we're definitely not the only ones picking one up the moods great. the polish to move you. the pilots will be flying at a reduced speed. with some technical checks are still outstanding. the landing gear has to be kept down. the flight to frankfurt takes twice as long as usual. singapore airlines resumed its air bus service. several months ago, many of the passengers checking in in frankfort made a conscious decision to fly within a $380.00 yards. isn't there,

it's massive really. as far as i know, the biggest passenger machine in the world, it's supposed to be very stable. i've talked to people who have flown in one and say it's a pleasant experience among floors and what i was looking forward to at the lateness line of warren jones cavanaugh, my love, i usually have a fear of flying, but i hope it's not so bad on such a big plane going, it's very stable and you barely noticed you're in the air with the aircraft is being prepped for a flight to singapore, in flight meals for some 600 passengers are being loaded onto the plane. there are large suites on the upper deck for the passengers, it's as comfortable as their own living room next door and the lift tons a maintenance hanger. the mike kilo aircraft hovers half a meter above the ground. the wheels are checked in what's called a gear, swing the technology to carry out the test wasn't available in spain. once

a summer flight schedule gets going, mike keela will be winging its way over to north america with new york and boston, the initial destinations joining all the other 8th, 3 eighty's that had been re launched. it's not just enough tons are resurrecting, it's grounded a 3 eighty's emirates as also putting them back to work. the airline owns $121.00 of the mega airplanes far more than any of its competitors. singapore airlines, us next with 17 of its own a 3 eighty's, nov tanza on 14 and total but even was a year as a no fly behind us and jumbo debts back in the sky. one essential problem still plagues the industry. airplanes are massive c o 2 emitters. and if we want to alleviate the climate crisis, we have to embrace new ways of travel. but could it be possible to take to the skies without damaging the earth? we took a closer look. will flying ever be climate neutral?

lots of research has been done on carbon neutral flying. the ation industry accounts for 3 per cent of global c o. 2 emissions each year. a number of that's expected to rise. in the long term, the industry aims to make flying climate neutral. but how currently there are 2 approaches. one is developing battery powered motors for electric aircraft. the other is developing sustainable aviation fuel like hydrogen or biofuels. first, let's take a look at electric motors for aircraft. they would only be climate neutral if the electricity used was generated from renewable sources. but there's a bigger problem with electric aircraft there. batteries would need to store massive amounts of energy, making them much larger and heavier than the plane itself. that's just not

practical. what about hydrogen? ah, what hydrogen is 3 times more energy efficient than kerosene? it requires a lot more space. that's true, even if it's cooled and turned into its liquid form and airports would have to change their entire refueling infrastructure, which is highly unlikely. so what about biofuels for airplanes? many experts are betting on them at present. the most common sources of biofuel or bio mass and used cooking oil. but far too little of those are being produced currently just enough to keep the world's planes in the air for around 3 hours per year. and biofuels cost $2.00 to $5.00 times more than fossil kerosene, which means ticket prices would have to go up dramatically as well. hardly anyone would be able to afford them. scientists are for cheaper and more practical ways of

achieving carbon neutral flight for the masses. but we'll likely have to wait a few years before climate neutral aviation becomes a global reality or bona fide scientists are working to stop climate change. more and more pseudo experts are denying its existence. misinformation is getting increasingly complex and heart identify. that's partially because dangerous myths can freely circulate online since the energy crisis misinformation around the green transition, for example, is flourishing. fake news spreads fear of progress and jeopardize as crucial innovation. but who's behind it? means streams, feeds shopping communication. all the information on the world ready when you need it. the internet is a magical place, but there are also some weird corners. i'm talking about the dark underbelly, the ugly face of conspiracy theories and misinformation that shows itself and

obscure forums and chat groups. especially under stories about renewables. we read the thousands of commons posted under videos on wind and solar and collected those that smelled of misinformation. and slowly patterns emerged. the same talking points kept coming up and as futile as it may be, we decided to debunk the people kept pointing out that making wind turbines and solar panels creates emissions because it needs energy. all these materials have to be mind refined and or manufactured in order to make solar panels requires massive amounts of conventional energy. and yes, that's actually applies to every form of energy generation. but some spelled out what others just insinuated that renewables are worse for the climate than fossil fuels. the fumes coming up to make, make these massive windmills is more than anything that we're talking about with natural gas. no, no, no, no, no. for wind and solar, i think for wind,

you're not 20 grams per kilowatt hour that you imagine and for, for, for so i think on average you should look like 40 grams over here to begin with our and that's fraction like 110th or 128th of what you get with a fossil fuels, of course, wind and solar have a carbon footprint, but it's tremendously lower than that of any fossil fuel. when this next rumor, by the way, is also not true. a wind farm spends the 1st 78 years of its life earning back the energy that went into building the winter. but it's such nonsense that such utter nonsense. i mean, for windmills it thinks like half a year nowadays. huh. for windmill to produce as much energy as it took for the whole thing to be produced and put in place. so with this one out of the way on to the next one, a classic on the renewables bashing head list. the essential unreliability of solar

and wind, solar and wind are unreliable fuels. we cannot rely on renewables alone. the message here is that solar and wind will plunge us into chaos. this isn't exactly a newsflash, but the sun doesn't shine over time. and the wind doesn't blow time and those peddling, the smith got very excited in early 2021 record snowfall in parts of texas deadly winter storm blanketed. most of that state with snow and ice winter storms swept across the us state of texas, leading to severe power outages that killed hundreds of people. and the anti renewables propaganda machine immediately found a culprit. the windmills broke, so the power grid fail. even the states governor who's received millions of dollars and campaigned funding from the oil and gas industry blamed renewables are when in our solar we got shut down and that thrust taxes into a situation where it was lacking power. it just shows that fossil fuel is necessary

for the state of texas. this picture started spreading on line and along with it's the narrative that frozen wind turbines caused the blackouts. but they didn't. the photo was actually taken in sweden and 1st published in 2015 and frozen wind turbines were really not the biggest problem in texas. nuclear went down, all went down, natural gas went down, and a portion of the winter winds went down simultaneously. every it by the university of texas, which came out in the catastrophes after mouth showed what the biggest problem was, outages and fossil fuel power plants, especially those running on natural gas. yes, some winter bands also stopped working, but that could have been prevented their wind turbines and many states in the u. s . and in northern europe, they don't freeze because they actually have dicing equipment on them. so the problem was not intrinsically with the wind turbines, with the fact that there was no dicing it. what's happened in texas was not the fault of renewables,

but that's exactly what's countless people were told and believed. the online world is like a kind of cooking up. there are things that have been in that cutting cost for quite a quite a long while. there are new ingredients being added in every time he gets added and it gets stuck. this is neil johnson who researches online misinformation many one time in any place in this, in this network can appear any kind of combination of preexisting ideas which will never go away. he can't replicate them our brain place. it's part in this as well. it favors information we get from people we trust, or maya, and information that supports our worldview change can be intimidating. and it's also not always easy to separate fact from fake. much of the misinformation out there does contain a grain of truth, but then gets blown out of proportion. yes, solar panels do have a carbon footprint, but it's tiny compared to that of fossil fuels. yes, some winter binds,

did freeze in texas, but that wasn't the main reason for the black out by a long shot context. metas also for this di, hot myth about wind turbines, that terrible for but kills all the birds. again, it's true that wind turbines kill some birds, but can kill significantly more and so to skyscrapers. and even cats debunking is a hot and thankless job. the list of falsehood about renewables circulating online is pretty much endless. we cookie telling you what's wrong with them. one by one forever. and i guess that's what the people behind them want us to do. they want to keep us busy and distracted from asking way, way more interesting questions, like, who's peddling these myths in the 1st place? it's kind of hard to pinpoint it. i think it's a little sink tanks or rightly anything things they get most of their funding

through donations and grants. and wouldn't it just be interesting to know from whom usually the most important, interesting things don't mention where they get their money from. so it's basically a little guest room. sometimes we do get the odd glimpse into the finances in the past. many of them received money from exxon mobil according to the fossil fuel giant's donation reports. but usually most of this plays out behind close doors. the think tanks operate as nonprofit charities, which allows them to keep secret to the sugar daddies are quite frankly, it's been frustrating man disheartening to see all these outlandish claims about wind and solar still out there. i guess it's important to take them for what they are a symptom, a symptom of a trillion dollar industry clinging on to its business model, doubts about the alternatives and fear of change, a helping its keep its grip. but changes already happening regardless.

solar power is advancing faster than any other renewable energy technology. solar is becoming cheaper and more efficient by the year, transforming an ever greater amount of sunlight into electricity. the solar panels, turbo charging, the green energy transition, the old plane increasingly prominent role in our lives. in fact, solar power is already an important component of many devices. forest can run on the power of the sun. some aeroplanes are already taking off on solar energy. and space solar panels are indispensable. they power satellites and supply the international space station back on earth. mobile solar panels can be used as phone chargers, some or even small enough to fit in a backpack. solar power is everywhere from powering entire greenhouses to popping up between train tracks in the home, residents can install solar panels on their balcony to increase their energy supply

. but of course, most solar panels are still found on roofs. we're seeing more solar panels around us every day, but. ringback so they could go unnoticed, we met a germans start up, that's found a way to make them blend in by transforming solar panels into tiles. there is a revolution underway on the roof tops of germany begun by cornelius power keys devised in all new roofing tiles system that in addition to protecting houses, also incorporates solar modules. and they produce electricity in abundance. more than enough for the resident family provided the sunshine's. then i thought, as an example, a 1000 tiles on a roof means a peak of 10 kilowatt. and depending on where you are in germany, that's around 9 or even 10000 kilowatt hours per year. and is only on in the long term, it pays for itself in around 20 years. some of these yet his solar paneled roof costs around $40000.00 euros in total, a few 1000 more than

a conventional roof with added solar panels. revolutionaries always face challenges because they're usually charging new ground powers. next level tiles involve a lot of individual workmanship at the factory in eastern germany, making production for now relatively expensive of further hurdle is ensuring the new product is super dependable and functions flawlessly, over a period of decades. the love, the laminated solar modules are made on the basis of conventional processes with materials tried and tested in billions of units to date them up. so i'm not worried at all on that front. in his organ, cornelius policy company also introduced robots recently to increase capacity and lower cost. originally, an electro technical engineer, he got investors on board to help finance the price. he material acquisitions.

their commitment represented a big vote of confidence in his fledgling enterprise. as of your hm. we started out in 2011 with 3 people. now we have a staff of around 70. last year we doubled turn for to 5000000 euros. and this year hope to increase our revenue 5 or 6 volt dc. i haven't written for from funding for thanks, lou powell is confident that the energy crisis will see more german homeowners wanting to generate their own electricity. plus the government recently increased funding for solar roof conversions, which need to be as uncomplicated as possible if than the inside they'll be to penetrations in the roof. up there with a plus and minus cables will run inside a conduit down to the inverter. so it's that simple boma death blue for now, the roofing revolutionary is a relatively minor player in what is

a $1000000000.00 market. but he's convinced that his innovative solar tiles will soon be in demand across the country. it's good to 1000000 and from germany as 15000000 detached and semi detached houses that will require energy related monetization over the next 30 years. for months, if you project that figure, we're talking about half a 1000000 rooms a year with $2.00 to $300000000.00 solar tiles to be installed. and we're looking forward to making our contribution for that target group. why does the dots and i talked to last lou, but with germans known for being very price conscious, they might still need some persuading. time is however, on his side, if the panels produce the right results, they're bound to gain in popularity in the future blue

solar panels and an electric plains in the air. thanks for joining us for this episode, full of innovation for me and the team here in berlin. good bye and take care. ah! awe. with awe, with

her fancy a walked across lake garden, italy's largest lake climate change has made it possible. pedestrians now strolled where there was once water, but this tourist novelty poses a real threat to the region. the lack of water endangers both nature and the

economy. focus on europe in 30 minutes on d. w. o me is 32, a survival suggested and for some happy to herself and hundreds of thousands of aids patients in china, victim's medical scandal that began in 91 single past due. she made kind of a scandal with the 75 minutes on d, w o. o time for a brain update. it's magic. it's the kind of magic

a because this orchestra called the brain continuously adapts itself. and so we ask a few astute questions. are we smarter swarms or use? so what causes monster waves? how powerful are your thoughts? however, we can control our thoughts, which makes us very power came. we have to learn a lot and we do that through play. questions about life, the universe and kind of like a superpower. our series of 40 to the answers almost everything this week on d. w. ah

ah ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin, russia bella, ruth's talk tactical nuclear weapons battle russian leader alexander lucas shameka is in moscow for talks with russian president vladimir putin. stationing tactical range nuclear weapons in bel roost is expected to be on the agenda. kremlin says bell or russian troops.