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the reaction has been mixed. some celebrated what they saw as the end of an unsafe energy source. others ask whether there are enough alternatives to replace it. because this is a question that's not going away. how do we cover our ever growing energy needs? we present you with one idea that brings the added benefit of reducing plastic waste. and here's what else we're talking about. on today's edition of made in germany. power, renewable energy rich australia has become a climate villain. how artificial intelligence can help make houses, earthquake proof. and how rising interest rates of push startups into crisis mood. but 1st one austrian company has found a way to kill 2 birds with one stone producing green energy while cutting down on plastic waste. a warning though, this may leave you feeling squeamish. luckily,

our reporter mailto spit has a strong stomach. this is his report. ah, turning plastic into fuel for trains, ships, buses, and plains, with the help of this feces or sewage sludge. not nice, but together they can make a fuel, the can power the world, your product, we produce green hydrogen at source. all on our maya, turn the initial idea into a business the i've been a fiend. i met up with the inventor of the technology and bought the patents from health. one lab, i'll get back. i had to pinch myself that i was really doing this, but i just went on with my gut instinct. dan gets woman is so torn. that's why we turned human waste into power. that's the philosophy philosophy on this vehicle. and then for that i was ready to immediately found a company, employ engineers, and so far,

invest 4000000 euros without state aid. he and one is stop leaking in fear. lilburn and central austria is where the company plant is located. it's a pilot plant designed to test the idea on an industrial scale. this is roughly how it works. dr. sludge from sewer plants is burned with the help of pure oxygen. the temperature inside the tank reaches 1500 degrees celsius. so hot that the plastic breaks down into its individual components. these include hydrogen, which is separated off and purified. the remaining waste is rich and phosphate. the other byproduct is c o. 2 the waste can be used as fertilizer in the agricultural sector book while the c o 2 can go to the beverage industry. this classic int he lost it contains

a lot of hydrogen which is not normally used. it gets thrown into the sea or burned in incinerators, but we can use it turn in via not since. but the process requires very high temperatures. doesn't that use a lot of energy in a key in the energy is generated by the sewage, sludge itself. yeah. it has very good combustion properties as long as it's dry. so it creates the energy that is needed, said bob or that leads to a raging fire, which allows the hydrogen to be extracted from the plastic. tests at the pilot plant have so far been a success. now it has to prove itself in regular operation, just indicates that to allow. we're now looking for investors knockin with, i'm proven what this company that it works in. and now we want to scale that up all over world wide growth. so we're seeking funding right now. i'm the only one providing the funding john beneath the insignificant and he's expecting the demand

for hydrogen to increase rapidly in the coming years with the climate friendly gas due to replace other fuel like crude oil. but so far, it's been cheaper to rely on fossil fuels than produce hydrogen. with this new technology pulse would be about the same price. to build the 1st industrial plant to use plastic as a raw material and recycle mountains of waste in the process. one other thing about the discussion around how best to meet energy demand is that it often quickly turns ideological, that's true for nuclear power and it's true for so called e feels as well. that's a climate neutral fuel that many and the automotive industry are hoping we'll save the internal combustion engine from the rapidly approaching electric car edge. but it's not without its critics.

ah, car makers are hoping e fuels will keep the internal combustion engine alive as a c o. 2 neutral alternative to fossil fuels. if he was our synthetically produced fuels made from electricity, water, and carbon dioxide, but not crude oil. e fuels do the same job as gas in diesel, except they're considered environmentally friendly. but are they really, it depends on the energy used to produce them. if power from renewable resources is used, e fuel production really is climate neutral? compared to gas and diesel producing e fuels has less of an environmental toll. there are no carbon emissions involved in their production nor in their use. so could e fuels make the internal combustion engine, carbon neutral?

yes. but e fuels are still very inefficient. an e fuel car uses only 10 to 15 percent of the energy that goes into making the fuels a battery powered electric car uses 70 to 80 percent. let's take an example. consider a 3 megawatt windman. it can power about 1600 electric cars. but if we use it to produce e fuels, it can only power 200 fifties in efficient means expensive. if the electricity costs are powering a car with a fuel r 6 times higher, that sunday drives starts to become a luxury. that's why skeptics called e fuels the champagne of propulsion c o 2 neutral maybe, but expensive and inefficient. the australian outback,

a vast stretch with pockets of untamed nature. but when temperatures rise to nearly 50 degrees celsius, as they did a few years ago, huge ways of forest and metal land go up in flames than it's less than a delay. australia is feeling the effects of climate change acutely, but its economy is built on high polluting industries that enjoy especially a solid backing from the government at the expense of climate protection. this country doesn't make sense, but has pristine nature. horrific wildfires and is one of the richest countries with some of the best renewable resources in the world. when i say hello, we say good i because here, every day is a good day. but despite having an easier job stopping climate change than most and way more reason to do so, australians are among the world's worst polluters than lobbying was the most and

their ambitions weaker. so how did australia become a climate villain? and kind of clean up its act up to understand australia, climate policy, you have to understand its economy, which was built on mining its resources and shipping them to east asia in the u. s . a big part of that was cove. just 2 decades ago, australia made 80 percent of its electricity from coke. today that share is still around 50 percent. that's twice as much of the u. s. bonds and 25 times more than the u. k. ringback but the fuel it burns at home isn't the only problem. australia also exports more coal than any country except indonesia and all that shows in its politics. for the last decade, a coalition of conservative parties pushed co friendly policies and pushed back on basic climate science. they were kicked out in 2022,

giving australia chance to finally clean up its act. but it was the actions of the old look that gave australia the reputation of the climate villain. when we turn out to international meetings, we always get the wooden sky. we're always cold out as a legged. this is kate crowley. she studied australia's climate policy or the last decade how policy positions, if you read between the lines are there always, well will do anything, but actually kind of missions will do anything but actually reduce the amount of coal we're exploring. we do anything but make a profit transition. the most obvious reason for australia slow progress is it's coal, oil, and gas industries. and the power it's lobbyists, wheeled over politicians, the media, and to make matters worth australia some of the week is political finance. load them on rich country. in the last election,

unidentified political donors gave the big party of more than $19000000.00 australian dollars. now this money comes from darn it with all sorts of interest. but what's outrageous that australians have no idea which industry the buy influence. it's very difficult to disentangle that level of influence, you'd have to do some about strengthening political lobbying laws, implants were done, i suppose, for stock. never country been so badly by extreme weather. it seems strange that people haven't demanded the government stand up to the fossil fuel industry. but there is a good reason for this passes and media with one site downplaying climate change. first have a look at this fear mongering from the climate council. are you sure astray emissions really could make a difference? a surprisingly large chunk of australian meteor than the hands of one powerful mountain. the 3 biggest newspapers earned by rupert murdoch, the 91 year old media mogul behind fox news in the us. his company, muse,

cost radio, also in the tv channel sky news, australia murdock's papers have historically so doubt about scientific fact and detect policy that could cut pollution and the coverage of policies to stop global warming was twice as likely to be negative than positive things have started to change, at least a bit. in 2020. rupert murdoch's youngest son, james cold out his father's media and pipe a climate denial. it's bush by the ravaged australia, and then he quit. yet later, the company surprised everyone with a campaign to highlight the benefits of cutting emissions. new full pipe is embattled and baldwin. you inventory position this morning with a 16 page wrap around aging action on climate change. the company is moving away from open climate tonight, but is still pushing to delay action. one argument that has worked particularly well is the idea that fighting climate change will cost australian jobs. australia's home to some of the world's biggest mining companies. the industry

makes up about 10 percent of the countries g, d, p, and politicians, journalists, and business executive shout about this loudly. a proposed game is already threatening future contracts, putting the jobs of $500.00 staff at racy with our capital projects, with our projects, with no job on that on about to trade off the jobs more than well, finding new jobs for fossil fuel work because it's important but the role that coal, oil, and gas plays, way smaller than australian think is perception that fossil fuels are really crucial to the strain economy in terms of jobs is fundamental in sort of narrative against climate action. ringback but really like, it doesn't really stack ha, in, in, you know, in practical times this is climate timeless to meet for even cat, to supplement in. she found australians over estimate the size of gas and oil industry employment by a factor of $58.00. it's

a similar story for coke. people think coal mining makes up 30 percent of g d p. it's actually 10 times less. the weird thing here is that not only does australia have enough sun and wind to make loads of renewable energy, it also have huge deposits of mineral that a key to cleaning up the economy like corporate lithium. and despite all the denial australians are pretty supportive of stopping climate change, which given the fires and floods than droughts that they're living through maybe isn't say surprising. the australian institute study from 75 percent of australians are concerned about climate change. 79 percent want to phase out co plugs. those are pretty large figures that show the opinions of australians that maybe doesn't stack up so much with this idea that a salience on the whole a climate denies that mindset played a big role in the last election. the new government has set a target to cut emissions 43 percent by 2030 from that 2005 levels maybe target saw

still 2 week to stop the planet heating 1.5 degrees celsius the level. well, lita said they tried to info, but it would get it down to about 2 degrees. but a spite of higher ambition, the new government have 2 big problems. the 1st of the number of fossil fuel projects that plans to build. that's really 117. you've also few projects in the pipeline, and so even though you get approved, if those go through, that's going to blow all of our emissions, you know, over any limit that we said. but the big problem is the reliance on carbon offsets to clean up the economy. the government wants to make industry emit less, c o t, f, each good at produce. the limit will shrink about 5 percent each year. but instead of forcing companies to pollute less, the government's letting some of them buy certificate that say they've avoided pollution elsewhere. a lot of the time by planting trees or protecting forests. it is never climate that they can't stop new projects. they can keep polluting,

they can keep expanding, they can keep increasing their emissions as long as they buy all sets, that's totally fine. still, australia is cleaning up its energy system. cheap, renewable energy of displacing fossil fuels. even my policy is weak. and even where the federal government has been slower, some states have me fussed. queensland of victoria getting out of cold tasmania. the electricity grid is already 100 percent renewable, and it wants to generate double it's need from clean energy by 2040 australia reputation. the climate villain makes sense. it for policies to clean up the economy. lobbyists and journalists have kept it hooked on fossil fuels. but it's people won't change. and that's something that starting to show as we saw in that report, there are a lot of ways the government can leave its people vulnerable to disaster. another way is to neglect earthquake safety. the earthquake in turkey in syria shows

a just how much damage this neglect can cause techniques to construct buildings to withstand seismic activity have long existed and no artificial intelligence can improve that process further. although of course, even better would be if a i could help keep corruption and shoddy contracting out of construction till felix, polishing or reports. ah, more than 2000000 people worldwide live in regions with an increased risk of earthquakes. but how do you construct an earthquake resistant buildings? one rule of thumb is that in quite prone regions, the length of the building shouldn't be more than 3 times it's width. and the height shouldn't exceed 4 times the with japan is a pioneer in earthquake resistant building and so as chilling.

mm. but what materials are best suited for building and quake prone regions? wood is considered earthquake resistant. as is bamboo, wood is usually inexpensive and locally available to buildings made of bricks and clay. on the other hand, often collapsing in earthquake bricks are also heavy and can crush people that leads to a significantly higher death toll and or quake. building projects in bangladesh have shown that adobe clay is also low cost, and seismic resistant, if strengthened with jude sacks. then there are new technologies avail that are designed to prevent concrete buildings from collapsing like a house of cards. that's what happened here in turkey during the earthquake in february with one invention. the roof is equipped with sliding weight sensors and

planted in the walls. allow an algorithm to calculate in real time what level of force is required to counteract the tremors of an earthquake. and stabilize the building, it uses the sliding weights to offset the shaking and rebalance the building. the aim mister, minimize damage and prevent its collapse. so here came the idea of putting some intelligence it in this type of decline, which is the need of putting a brain in these machine in order to let it understand where it is installing the, what are the changes needed? you know the court in order to adopt the instructor and being adaptable during to her make to the changes of the structure. the system is similar to the pendulums, wayne's several 100 tons, that are already used in skyscrapers. yes, sensor, so you can always moist or the structure and even after the her big you can

immediately say is the building is fine. if often an earthquake it is damaged it on okay. it absorb energy and people inside they're fine, which is, which is the important part. but these mean so, so that your accept the fact that the building can be damaged after the her make that which is a problem. because then becomes a cost either for the owner either for the institutions. so here comes in play. our technology we hi rises are generally built with flexible steel frames. this means in a quake they can sway with the tremors, making a collapse less likely. large buildings can also have special systems and seismic shock absorbers installed under their foundations. this d cup the building from the substructure allowing it to search the tremors and swale me slightly. people and governments often shy away from the cost of building earthquake resistant homes. but in the event of a quake,

it limits the material damage and prevents unimaginable suffering. advancements and artificial intelligence and its applications are often 1st hatched in startups. but even these cradles of innovation are on shaky ground, higher interest rates have made capital difficult to come by. last march, silicon valley bank, a preferred lending outfit for start up went bankrupt. and the effects rippled a far beyond the american start up ecosystem. they're being felt in germany to now if securing financing used to be about having a vision. now it's about having a solid profit generating business model. here is a report from mardel grants in scott and the new pragmatism in the start up sector . ah, modern and cosmopolitan. berlin offers good prospects for up and coming entrepreneurs. the german capital is currently home to 3000 startups employing over

70000 people. but after years of growth, finding investors have now become more difficult. major startups like corner tier and good tear have all laid off staff, allah's office, yet everything that's happened from the rising interest rates to the economic situation. the ukraine crisis on the banking crisis that popped up briefly. that's all having an effect on startups, not up in the united states. it means that investors are a bit hesitant to back their investments. and to provide follow on financing. there's a wait and see approach in the market dive and bob mark last year, just under 10000000000 euros were invested in startups in germany. that's a drop of 43 percent compared to the record year of 2021. ah, booking kit is a system for booking tourist attractions,

like these museums and leisure parks. the startup fell on hard times in 2020. when the whole of europe was shut down due to the pandemic, lucas hempel had to lay off 20 percent of his staff. now he's more optimistic about the future in i know this, and there is in a world where the future is looking more and more uncertain, we need to adjust to that uncertainty. thus, estes woodside gifts, there's this idea of the so called gluco world is where everything is volatile, ambiguous, and where you can't plan ahead a. and so the way we respond to that is to always think in terms of different scenarios, mission for finance and i. and so we have the perfect scenario, the midway scenario and the negative scenario. and he got his scenario on and we're constantly looking at the data to see which scenario we're currently heading towards that. so planning and thinking ahead has become more important than ever.

the focus is on efficiency in organic growth rather than rapid expansion. finding investors now takes longer. company founders need a good business idea and a stress resistant financial plan. gotten into excitement funds are, especially in the boone years of 2019, and even more so in 20202021. it was all about having a big vision destroyed and being able to convey that effectively to investors boxes and really going for growth. and by that, those are still important aspects. but now you also need a solid business model. you need to be able to handle money and use your capital efficiently. if it's in lines was absent for gov tech, things are easier. startups in this area offer new digital solutions for the public sector. in uncertain times, the state still makes for a secure and reliable customer. by company poly tear automates many procedures for

local authorities across germany. history. yet we're now seeing much stronger interest than before. the economic downturn, i'ma because investors are looking more closely at how efficient business models are and how well money is used and whether the customers are financially secure, couldn't be total. and of course, working for the authorities is quite different than dealing with the vagaries of consumers. will suddenly change their mind. they say i have mine over the years of plenty might be over, but started still attract a lot of interest. investors just look at firms more closely before committing their cash. in that sense, the market is simply become more normal. i for one have always believed if it's good, then the universe will make space for it. that was made in germany. thank you very much for joining us this week. i'm janelle de milan take care ah

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