the oldest ambitions to be within reason what is it really is possible to reverse the researches and scientists all over the world for in a race against time. they are peers and arrivals with one daring goals to help smart nature. the more likes watching it on youtube, dw documentary, the raw materials are essential, costly, and then limited supply. one metal that's just about everywhere copper is used in

power cables and electronics for its high electrical and thermal conductivity. since it doesn't rust, it's ideal for water pipe and is used in florida and she's making copper has been used with thousands of years. a several archaeological excavations have shown it has been used to make some of the world's most well known landmarks like the statue of liberty and an entire paris metro station where it is cop are come from. and what does it take to extract it will answer that in this edition of made dw business magazine. and here are the other resources we're looking at. nuclear energy, controversial get popular in poland, water fighting shortages with creativity and spices, or trend things, momentum to pundents invalid. welcome to the show. as copper is

vital to the energy transition and digitalization and telecommunications electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar energy plants securing this metal in europe is increasingly important. so while major produces china and russia are no longer dependable suppliers, europe is looking elsewhere, including sweden. this candidate and country has the continents largest corporate deposits. and at the, i take mine, guns, excavators and trucks are used to extract the metal. a reporter question for celsius, visited europe's largest copper mines, cork engine when trucks are at work in europe's largest open pick copper mines located in northern sweden. oversized excavators, load them up. the mine is hundreds of meters deep. and the rock ends up in the world's largest stone mills, which extract copper to supply europe's high tech industries. but can it be done in

an environmentally friendly way? she drives one of the biggest trucks in the world, a caterpillar $795.00 has q in europe such as compromised, run by the company. both of the vehicle is as big as a house. 8 meters tall tag along with her to load up some rocks. sophie visited them, drives through the page in this 3400 horsepower vehicle. so how does one actually get a driver's license for one of these massive trucks? you have to be uh, at least 21 years old. your drivers license for a car for 3 years. and then the education

lights on default. the well hi was 8 to last sometimes. i mean shift is 8 hours. the pass down into the mine is steve tied here, so we have to waving is required so that other drivers can see that your away can doing fine. the truck transport $600.00 tons of rock per trip and breaking times are long. i think maybe i don't know, reaction time rates time. pretty far because this is a big truck and it depends on how we load the roads. how are they? if it's no way it says to be loaded. now the world's largest excavator vehicle gets into position the p. n. h. excavator. 4100. c 10.

1 load carry 60 to 80 tons of rock. it has 2 motors and can even be operated electrically. massive explosions are a common place occurrence here. every months, new layers of stone are being loose and for transport, the curving routes that used to be the am no longer exist. and that even gets on sophie's nerves. sometimes. when you are free for a week and you come back, it's not sure that you will find your way around here because it's always, it's always change. your belt stretched for miles, transporting the copper rich rock to the stone mill. it's also the world's largest of its kind. they use the same amount of energy as some cities. it makes me feel

very small. the rock is put in water basins, where it is chemically processed to separate the cover from other substances. in the end, you are let's with this concentrated copper mixture engineer monkey selina works in the preparation hall and is one of the people in charge of the refining process to add another factory. copper is separated from the mixture and melted down, apart from small amounts of silver and gold. more than 99 percent of the production consists of copper to factories consume massive amounts of energy. but the electricity they're using comes from 100 percent renewable

sources, such as from this nearby hydro electric plant that has improved the mines, carbon footprint in the past 2 years. and that's important to the industries customers to the customer, the demand. uh and i will say a couple of products that test has low carbon footprint, and also good quality of the for tonight to have mainly high on the hydro power election to have sophie under colleagues driving 3 shift. gee, and tonight, all year round, over half of this 60 drivers here are women. this is usually something that people think is a man's job or something that women can do it too. so why was it like oh, i think it's attractive because it's fun. now it's time to fill up the fuel tank with

over $7000.00 leaders of diesel. it's as much as the heating oil needed by one house over a year. the truck and go for 32 hours per tank load. then it's also set to change less diesel and more renewables are truck isn't electric hybrid with one diesel engine and one electric motor. the. so now we're going to connect to the trucks, drive on renewable energy coming from the electric cables above them, the by 2030. all the trucks in service will be electric, then the company will market it as green comp are virtually c o. 2 free and powered

by 100 percent renewables. poland wants to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, which is still a large chunk of the countries energy mix. the government is investing heavily in nuclear energy to change that. it plans to build to a large nuclear power plants and construction for one of them is set to begin next year. but well, many in poland, support and nuclear energy. not everyone is happy about the site. the government has chosen for one power plant. a reporter logic was in sco was there of switching from code to the action. that's the cost that poland is taking today. 70 percent of poland energy mix comes from domestic t mind. mcknight, cold, the coal fired react to it. they had hacked off is, you know, just demit to risk greenhouse gases. the plant nuclear reactor is meant to be part of the solution. and then i get to get back to like

204075 percent of our energy mixture consist of non fossil fuel sources is in a good half of that should come from renewable energy sources and a quarter will be from nuclear energy. only 25 percent will be from gas and cold. just in the hall. jones, this is guys will ease of ng law by 2043, 6 units with a total capacity of $6.00 to $9.00 gigawatts will be built at 2 locations. the 1st site has already been chosen directly on the baltic sea. that image is what i'm used to it. as far as i can tell, this location is conceivably the worst place for a nuclear power plant to, to, because of all the nature here is the chief level. in general, i'm not opposed to building nuclear rafters, but this location is a terrible choice. by 20 says you for the 1st react to will go online

right here at the beach. but our position is growing 19. you can to this want to stop the construction. the group is organizing protests and public forums. we know the residents in the area the it's a didn't because you know, 3 boucher which moved here 3 years ago and went out some a cartridges. they're not just against nuclear power. they have other concerns to do chips is who if they build a nuclear power plant here, this area will be a construction site for 20 years and i'm up and looked at that will killed tourism in the area. agriculture. clean

a and hardly any industry. that's what makes this community on the coast so attractive, perfect conditions for the tourist industry. katara she knows a hi david. she has been running a small hotel here assess. he is. she's against the plans for a nuclear power plants. push the button. i concentrate on renewable energy sources like photo, ball tags out, wind and hydrogen. awesome nuclear energy is all technology. i st. bennett from poland. it's a beautiful country here. and we can really use all that nature gives us lots of diana, florida. so as you can nominate as a way these ruins from the eighty's was supposed to be peyton's 1st new cpanel account and then the 10 level dissolves disruption on the plans were scrapped. now opponents government to spell seeing a new p or offensive grow finished your project or nuclear power plant. so i just have to finish the reactor, but i'll do that in school activities by the reactors. the most important part is

that's where nuclear station takes place, and that creates a huge amount of energy. you know, the full 1000000 euro pro nuclear campaign comprises posters, radio ads on tv commercials. now, 86 percent of opponents population is full. the government's plans and the post because that's great. we should have nuclear power. it's the clean is form of energy besides the sun and the some other layer. power is the best solution in poland. we don't have any other energy source so we should be protected. we should wait because we don't have a train workforce to run it. yeah. but it's a good source of energy. right? i'm all for building nuclear power plants in poland. it's a good transitional solution to renewables. obsession up to 1000. then you start, unfortunately we have to have nuclear energy to some of our tests to produce government is planning small modular pounds. at 7 locations. they will be close to

industrial centers to provide them with power for the growing energy needs. as well as in largest cities like more solar and crack of the responses in pennsylvania, there's growing interest in the industry for small modular reactors that provide steady emissions, free energy on your uh, malware. and we'll do. i think they'll provide a few 100 megawatts that will set to keep locals and industry will benefit from it to most of the most of the practice. and you then them to move in a key. and then the big reason, the polls to at least support you clear energy is that many feel it's the only way of quickly achieving a c, o 2 free energy transition. water is an increasing leaky scares resource in many parts of the world. that's why we're seeing many innovative solutions to talk with shortages, most of which are also being adapted to the needs of various populations across the

world. and one would all have been tried and tested. i'm sure you'll be left inspired by the innovation and the next report. let's take a look because exacerbated an ongoing crisis in the us water, gas, city, water salted, has become a never ending issue with an approaching global will also causes the liquid, fresh water is not a future problem. half of the global population experience is what the scarcity of doing, at least some parts of the over consumption. he thinks, splendid and bad, what's a management of training all ground water, rivers and lakes was wide by the middle of the century. every 2nd country will struggle with limited access to water. to tech of this problem, we need to manage our water better. we need to reuse it and figure out ways to use less of it. but that alone may not be enough. scientists think that we need to look beyond the use of water sources like rainfall, snowfall river run of around for to frozen ice seats in the arctic stone. it is 70

percent of all fresh water resources globally. thousands of square kilometres of ice breaks, falls as ice books every year at the males into the ocean, fresh water that is wasted. the research has demonstrated that this. busy opportunity that supports prevention chart, bringing water from the northern hemisphere, rear defendant water to those 80 yards via the need this month. so it can be as easily scientist at the united nation. so university and also have to both unconventional water resources from a technological point of view. i spoke to already told today ships from the oil and gas industry up pulling small chunks away from drilling platforms to provide a city like cape town with fresh water for roughly 10 weeks. we need some think a lot bigger than ice mountain wing around a 125000000 tons. in comparison,

a large cargo vessel weighs around 200000 tons. and instead of pulling it just a few 100 meters, it would have to be direct thousands of kilometers. it's a huge feet. that's computer simulations from 2011. have shown that this is possible. well, theoretically, it's still a long way from luxury 3 d animation to reality one, emerald, to company the national advisor of euro s pets and to the technology to eventually put it off. but there's still a the funding to start the pilot face for now the eyes book idea is proving too big and fee to solve today's problems. so let's look to something lights up, something that can be found pretty much everywhere. like there, you know, in the morning everything is covered with a small droplets. guess what? these would be for exactly how to fuck humidity and it becomes liquid when it cools down. that's why i called glass of beer is wet on the outside, even though no

d a spilled over nature. this usually happens in the evening and at night when the temperature has dropped and it's possible to take advantage of this phenomenon and have as this humidity. so fog harvest team has been practiced by indigenous people on virtually every confidence. this is rebecca funnel. she's a consultant and research at one of the most successful fuck harvesting operations globally. you've got some kind of material. this one is nice and 3 d 2 got a lot of physical surface for the water to get stuck on. and then as far as passes through, it's just the cloud. you can kind of see the spray coming through in front of the other bigger net. and then it gets caught on this net put into practice. it looks like this. on the edge of the semi arid, i bump from region to morocco. there's very little rain. but for 6 months, a sick folk hangs over the region. in this fog passes 2700 square meters of mesh which makes it the largest for competing operation in the was the for condensers

and trips into large underground deposits from where it is distributed via pipes to people's homes. and that's collected on 35000 liters of water every day, which fulfills the needs of more than a 1000 people. and it's even used to what the crops today, the big folk harvesting operations and julie morocco gonna. they would try a seal in south africa. but the potential is much bigger, this suitable size, almost everywhere, 40 square feet, and that the deal is about $200.00 pages, but they costs roughly $1.00 was in $500.00. so it says the communities that would benefit the most from this particular technology are also those who were kind of most marginalized within countries. so getting the attention there and the kind of start up capital where it needs to be is an uphill battle. although capital is needed for ca, this thing is fairly cheap and scalable and a great solution for people living in remote areas. but it's not an option for big cities. there's simply not enough bulk and cities need more water than that's can

catch all up solution does not seem very crazy at 1st. but what's crazy is the amount of water we could safe by implementing it. i think pipes are the reason we lose nearly 30 percent of all fresh water globally bits of staggering 346000000000 leaders a day. to put that in perspective, that's 30 times more than german households consume for a day or more than 2000000000 desktops. a yeah, perfectly good water. we could use to drink, wash, clean, grow food fits just being wasted. like sun quoted me on a full space. so we'll basically thomas some of the times. this is lauren guy. he co founded the tech stuff. a stairwell from us is a bit open on the statements, us throughout the checks, lots of weeks, from space. they make satellite images with the help of microwaves. the microwaves reflected differently depending on which medium they hit full space,

we can get with him to see feet underneath the oxide, into the soil, into the pipes the am. so i'll go things actually gain linking. what we can say form space is the water on the spot for like for example, ok from the top. oh is from rain or something else. they're looking for the composition of the water. if it's drinking water, they assume it's the leak. and mostly the right. the result, so take this, every thought on this met, for example, is a leak. and here to at least of a $120.00 li, just a minute, texted and proud to italy. boy in bangkok, boys in chinese cities, estero sells those maps to utilities globally. so they know where to fix makes and save. money. locating leaks is only the 1st step in a long process. fixing one of the, my trip new ones, because it can affect the pressure within the pipe, improving and renewing pipes and infrastructure is key to saving water. and then

any $40000000000.00 that, that going down the drain globally do owns here. how do you like your fluid? i like mind spicy and apparently a part of a global trend. the demand for spices is booming. the global spice market is projected to grow 37 percent this year, making it worth a whopping $44000000000.00 euros. and the trend is expected to continue over the coming years. spices can be as expensive as cars, vanilla cost, 2000 euros per kilo, and stuff. one is even costly or 14000 euros kilo, but nothing compares to i g type i p top a peruvian chile that sells for 24000 euros. a kilo beast outgoing prices on scaring off customers for not green in marble runs but

a treat for the eyes and the tongues spices. the market. this booming and thousands of new companies profiting like oxy heinrich stones. its top selling blend goes well with german bread. as a little something to spice, some feet, otherwise land taste, butter. as it uh, booms. i think we're seeing a boom because of the movements towards health, your home cooking money on with them. but there are a few other factors like the trends towards vegetarian food. one tends to be just an extreme budgetary news, often require more spices, different spices involve unbelievable magazine. people are also traveling more so there's more global trade, more personal exchanges between people and that means the way we eat is becoming

more diverse. chris, you've had a few said you got to start up is located in the old warehouse district of hamburg . the german ford city is the world's 3rd most important trading center for spices after singapore and new york. these young spice farmers from uganda are visiting hamburg their association, sent them here to get to know their marcus better. so are they also benefiting from the boom? husky because i needs this kid a. yeah, i, i know if i stayed after then the price is being much more because now, so based on demand subsidized, if you've got notes up right too much of it, you kinda know how much more price is. most of this finances growing in the world come from small farmers like this one in pennsylvania is joined horses with other farmers to be able to sell his cloves for higher prices. going it alone usually

means having middleman dictate the price is true craftsmanship for a new spice blend at another industry newcomer in hamburg, oriental spices like human are being added since they are especially popular right now. the ingredients come from farmers and developing countries who are paid fairly . that's part of the concept. so for me, i find out for suppliers who have a direct connection to the plantation on the farm, is that before placing an order, i take time to consider? what's the philosophy and how important is it to them to maintain a fast supply chain from paying the west coast all the way to how the actual product is growing, the items that feel the town on this, this will take to expose the product or company also offers tastings that are attracting premium customers, mostly young people who are willing to pay 18 year olds for a blend. and are always on the lookout for something new.

hot stuff, and it and cheap. that brings us to the end of today's edition of made. thank you so much for watching. i'm to join us again next time until then from me and the entire team here in berlin. it's good by and take care. the

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