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and bosses alike in the solution of made will ask if it could ever become the norm . also coming up, wind farms kind of lower bills to enough to in my back yard in to be my guest locally source lithium, willy and germany's import dependence of space junk. is it time for an extra terrestrial clean? so they gotta be 19 pandemic forced a revolution in flexible working with many more of us now allowed it to work from home. so could the next major shift come in the form of a show to working week? belgium has become the 1st country to allow anyone to do 5 days work in force. they want to kind of really make society's more productive. well, let's take a look as to what day stops at 6 am this painting company in northern gemini after a briefing the painted heads of the construction site. a year ago,

the sun introduced to flexible working hours, including a forward to a week the bose jessica hanson hoped this split, attract new x one. how do you know if i switch from the, you know, you know, the score, you don't need a letter. you can glaze all the windows from inside. and there's a water stain on the staircase. i love after i met press and we're working from monday to thursday, and folks really like that. it gives them a long weekend. many say it's like a mini vacation and it's res. productivity fridays. we're never really productive. i that farm easily put up t. i used to be on site myself and realize that from 11 am on words productivity plunged, and everyone's thinking about the weekend. um, the whole mood of the company has changed for the better to have not. she's also found new employees like who is the leasing? she tends to stay on off to internships and already knows which day she'd like to

have free food is francisco, which i think i actually prefer to have mondays off. i don't like mondays so much. so when the council would make the full day week possible, the whole office tech to reorganize the way it worked, a bubble with it had to become more efficient. this included investing in new equipment. i mean, i think we went digital a year ago, meaning that the guys and gals used i pads, the materials are booked over the i pad. it's more and for it. but since i've been doing this, we're much better organized to talk on these yet. this even getting to is if we can manage by improving the organization of work through the use of digital tools. it's all software hardware and artificial intelligence to work as productively and fewer hours, while maintaining the same level of prosperity. then we're on the right path. in,

in the last 200 years, have shown that this is possible. this is a movie is in 1825. the work week in germany was 82 was low with industrialization, it progressively got show to 1956. so the introduction of the 5 day week which remains the norm today. and still there are exceptions following a sales. i'm also make a volkswagen introduced a full day week back in 1994 working time, so reduced from 36 hours to 28.8. wages sank by 10 percent, but all employees were given. jo guarantees preventing 30000 layoffs ending in 2006. did working hours go up again at volkswagen. in gemini, the average. what week looks like this an 8 hour day, 5 days a week. and one wide spread mobile for a 4 day week. people work 10 hours a day to get to reducing what times to such as 2 hours

a week brings even more benefits. as a bushy study shows how 39 percent of the employees involved with less stress that we had for trial 71 percent hard. but would use that was a bit and i so i thought i would less but not at the end of the trial. similarly, so that we're using sort of constant measures. yeah. anxiety, fatigue, sleep issues as well. vital decreased while matches of mental and physical health improved as well. the $61.00 companies that took not even sol productivity increase, so most planned to stick to reduce to working hours. but even if anybody is honda has to put in 10 nowadays. you still have to pay the site, let me know, and i don't have much time for my family during the week a few minutes, but we have lots more on fridays or i can make them breakfast. and so i can plan other things and do housework, which freeze me up to spend more time with my family on the weekend itself. i'm

pretty from you. that's really nice. this is especially on sites aspect. well, an exemption for another aspect is that society profits from afford a week because people have more time that they don't have to spend earning wages. mr. malone, i buy something, but it can also lead to, for example, many more people doing volunteer work. if i really get up and then something that benefit society to out, and just as all of us will, if you try to use their cellphone, feel free to get these painters joined. this company, not me because of the hours they can no longer imagine working a 5 day week suspect, or it's not an option because free times price let's, let's put it that way with it. so if i look back and compare it, i'll definitely stick with the systems as to the well here in germany, something we could do with working a little longer. and the little honda is the country's wind funds. the building out of green energy infrastructure is proving far from 3 is

a one thing standing in the way is the famous name be local, is who when confronted with new development, say not in my backyard, but with the right incentives can mines be changed? a staggering 37 wind turbines generate power on the outskirts of the town of dot assignments. sucks any on house local residents like like a china i've gotten used to them and his grandson doesn't even know what life was like. without them, we strolled those up so they don't bother me at all. if you, then we sit outside a lot in summer. it's no problem. i put it in his neighbors feel the same way. doesn't, don't we benefit from the turbines being that we all think that's good. sounds good as it's just normal for us that, that so we'll get the vin. it's great that the wind turbines are here to find is a 120 kilometers. know if it's the town of lute events which has $44.00 to binds, the less popular here. resident tanya shows. complaints of the ruining of view of

the country side of yvonne oliver were on this side because of beautiful landscape is gone. the great view that we have out here in the country was taken away from us . that's what i'm so i'm it, i feel like tricity prices have risen to, antonia shows, doesn't profit from the lovely produced wind energy. she has to get her electricity from elsewhere. and have provide a double the price per kilowatt hour. someone with letters. i'm serious. yeah. revenue, especially since we have wind power on our front doorstep and that's the benefit from it to them and monthly. what we've done next stuff on everything is getting more expensive and yet we're not getting anything. it's a real shame. those will because this auto, meanwhile, bucking dot assigned things a quite different residents, a nearby communities profit directly from the wind pocket. it allows locals to receive electricity for a relatively low price, $0.30 per kilowatt hour. that's one reason why page i should say decided to switch

energy providers. his previous provider raised the price by almost $0.60 per kilowatt hour. if they say that to sure, and it's definitely a relief because a lot of things have gotten more expensive, but my income hasn't gone up much wizard on the wind park also has other benefits. a percentage of the profits go to the local organizations. the matter was pleased with the income from the business taxes and also sees other benefits for residents . bill, the oldest one is the citizens in our region, have the opportunity to directly profit from the wind parks as the due dates of copy time. they receive yearly interest payments of at least 4 percent off. yeah, i know. yeah. even more when the wind blows harder when the vent, each bit of mail. businessman hines, which bottled heads of the project item, because he recognized at a time as a good location for when talking to 19 nineties. even though residents had that

doubts that almost have to use the home at all. we had to deal with this skepticism of the local government and consider how we were communicating with them. we also asked ourselves how they could benefit from it and having us, what does that cost us to re think the advantages on, which is why we decided on this capital participation model of your control for the word of the project success has gotten around the head of the gym and based weld wind energy association, paid a visit to dot assign. he knows 1st time how important the support of locals has to be for the energy transaction to succeed. the largest his stomach. people can identify with the project and are invested in it, and then they become individual advocates for wind energy themselves. one of the sites, since they're more involved on the it's easier to find solutions for a parent problem. so then if they were apathetic about, or even opposed to wind energy, to possibly have the height of dollars or the type wise is we're going to optimize the mass of kind of so to also helps with investors and residents can come together . especially since new wind parks could be

a financial boone for his constituency. and if i got your head, why this or the past investors took the earnings in the end, we were left with nothing to show for it. through this i probably put up to mentioning that must change and the future just wasn't ethical on the side. when fox have great potential in germany, now those who run them can be legally obligate to to involve presidents and communities in the process. but the tanya shows all of that is to light and our electric cars are also seen is crucial to a green, a future, but they are transporting with them. a whole range of problems to one of them is how to source the metals needed to make them lift. the essential to batteries provides just such a quandary is production is consolidated in just a handful of countries with australia. and sheila mining the vast majority. and although china is only the 3rd largest minor,

it processes the majority of what the other ones pull out the ground. oh, this is bad news for europe, which has no major home ground supply. scientists here are trying to change that this well runs more than 3 point. 5 kilometer is deep, allowing the room some of us have found that to reach the surface. once here, the heat is turned into electricity. the head to avoid con energy explains to a new employee how the g o sample talent in, in time binding plots and 8 works. yes, the sizes. here you see the big motor, which is connected with the shaft, with a mechanical part of the pump. and couple that pushes the water upwards. you can also see the insulated bibles, which run towards the back. there's hot water in them that we've been bringing into the geothermal plant to produce power. at the same time, they're working on

a pilot projects to extract alisium out of the room. brine you have one, so we secured areas in which we can obtain lithium a line or you can get me from these areas alone. we would be able with 20 or 30 projects, and i was to extract enough lithium from all the passenger cars produced in germany and c p companies. this white, alkaline metal is then founded as lithium hydroxide in neil straight in gem and companies. now, they're experimenting with special filters that we can show you due to the competition. starting in 2025 for kind of energy hopes to extract $24000.00 tons of lithium per year from semo volta enough for around $600000.00 callback choice. in size, and then of course the greatest potential we see at present is for batteries for electric cars also as well as becoming independent of other countries on this one.

that's the specific potential for us here in europe within i'd say, jim, any comments? resources around 60 percent of its lithium needs from australian mines. another 20 said comes from salt water likes in chile. many in this region support becoming less reliance on imports, but they've also had bad experiences with the g o semo plumps here. designated as it is, those are the cracks. it's why, here's the 1st level, the 2nd up here, you can see the 3rd we, i'm the see a we've pointed out that earthquakes are still occurring here. ok before and quite a large number on the, on the, on the have considerably more and in time, then in lawndale, on, even at a low production rate for the 4. $65.00 leaders per 2nd in time to non dollar check from and 50 leaders per 2nd in london. this one here, yes, by that. but that should be raised significantly with lithium extraction. something

new bore holes are to be made and then we expect considerably more quick. so it seems the enzyme plant hasn't triggered mole quakes since 2009. but what if they stopped again? it is associated with some damage is a curb. they'll be smaller ones to facades or individual homes. and they can be repaired and compensation must also be paid. that's completely clear of the homicide. on the plus side, it's a domestic source of energy or domestic raw materials. so it's a state level is the energy is renewable, and it's a raw material source close to home, but to be good for 2 main castellano to securely believes in the success of jem and lucy in mining and has invested 50000000 euros in vogue con energy and other com make us have signed purchase agreements for this vital rule material used in factories thought to vote con. energy still has a few hurdles to overcome the house for the long since product

development times are one challenging tyson can need. the authorization process is, must be shortened significantly so by the team so that we can begin production as soon as possible, producing heat for people as well as lithium for the automobile industry to complete. some fail to believe this, please. another aspect and it is gaining acceptance in the population reactive comes to the physical and it helps that this is a 0 comp unless the end project, because the white gold is extracted from some of which i used to produce heat and power. it's viewed as a renewable energy source once codes, the water is pumped back into the ground. but as we try to clean up our acts down here on the ground, scientists working out what we should do up the space junk is a problem that's only going to get worse with many thousands of stuff. the lights set to blast off into a little bit in the coming is. so can we clear out the ones that we no longer need

perhaps a media hemphill reports. how often do you think about space? probably not enough. considering how much we use it every day. we rely on the thousands of satellites up there to keep on more than lines running smoothly. but there's an explosive threats on the rise in space. don't satellites stuck in space being t v signals and phone calls around the well, they facilitate google maps gps and the internet transactions stop. bulk is disaster planning minute. teresa valence on and traffic control. they help predict weather passions across the plumbing. they provide the dates on the oceans out of space, thinks it overwhelming. and that's just a few examples. houston, we have a problem in the race to set up central lights. no one was thinking about future sustainability up in space. so how much dunk, if we put into all of it, and how are we going to clean it up? it's tempting to see space environment has this romanticize floating powered ice

filled with nothing but actually low as old. it has never been more crowded. 2020 tube or a cool reco. it's the space launches with mold in 2000 spacecraft coming into old age. but it's not just functioning useful checkup that thousands of dead and broken satellites, old rocket pots, and general bits of mine made space debris, a flying around the earth at high speed to on the switch of collisions is becoming a huge problem. with all of the things speeds of up to 28000 kilometers an hour, one tiny screw colliding with a spacecraft can have the impact of a 108 in the ocean if it possibly possible. it makes its way that it could fragments into thousands of tiny pieces, image and not, but as a scientist researching polluted environments. now the same, it seems the space debris that they can come by. they can explain and start always things a tiny piece. this can also be traced back in space. once something surface smooth

spa hard, it's trying that to me. we've been launching central lights since the 1950s with no plan or system for cleaning anything up. because shortly the great thing about spaces, that's so much space. well, funds for today with more than 90 countries operating out there on an estimated 17000 new satellite set to be launched by 2030. and we could be on cost to creating a superchunk space highway. if we don't do anything that's going to eventually meet to some areas of us, only thing on usable for future generations on the system. now the environment that we have polluted with waste. the good news is there was some big tech play is working to make us space race more sustainable. for my apple co founded, steve wozniak has a company called private tier. the company is tracking i have a 27000 laundry pieces of space debris in real time to try and stop explosive collisions from happening the arrivals. leah labs,

which provide some of that deputy trucking service status, sending out all the 400000000 collision. the nets to center lights every month, but it's not an ideal fix. there a hundreds of millions of space jump pieces whizzing around that are too small to track. also maneuvering your satellite to avoid a collision costs thousands of dollars each time. but then there's another cost which is the science cost. young's uminski is a space deputy analyst for the european space agency. so in our case, we have to switch off an instrument on board to perform the avoidance maneuver. this means a huge amount of data that this last so if your site to send, you want to terms of the specific region on us to measure the ice thickness. that's not going to happen. now, what about if we drastically reduce the number of the satellite knowing she's coming on? unfortunately, that's not a quick fix either because every condition in the over it generates a brand new cloud devry, causing even more collisions and eventually

a cascading ricochet effect. notice the capitalist enjoy, and we definitely want to have with that image and nothing. and her team at portsmouth university have been comparing space, debris to plastic trash and the ocean. but i the case thing that needs to be a or some trustee. well, nations or industries, the planning on using a little bit all using us a bit asked to sit around a table. i'm say, we need to decide how we're going to use this area sustainably. we've seen the success at the high speeds received, but that has taken in 20 years to come to an agreement. and now we need to act quickly to us a little bit before more damage is done. to physically clean up a piece of space chunk, it has to be d over to it, which means grabbing it, i'm pushing it down into the atmosphere where it mostly buttons up on re entry, like a shooting stop. as you can imagine, that's not a cheap operation. the spacecraft remove emission, especially if it's the 1st one and we still have to develop the technology. it's in

the ballpark of $500000000.00. you retain space agencies 1st, actual removal emission will be launched in 2025 by a switch. don't up quote the space. look through space solution is essentially like a tow truck if you want to pick a is the company c o. we have a big cropping system in front of our satellite. that makes it possible to pick up a large piece of debris from warm it. the 1st challenge will be launching into the right bits of space to catch the piece of to every rather than just colliding with it. we have to own living with this object, are 28000 kilometer per hour alone, our speed with the subject, and then capture rate them in an environment where there's no friction and they'll grab a diesel, everything floats. once this is down, we will, we will stabilize the object and slowing down a green, seduce it into the r assessments here where the objects will go. now if the cost of these exhorted be done,

then it's really difficult to find the funds that you need in order to implement these things. professor judy animal and yet from the survey space center is working on a lower cost space junk removal. concepts at the moment. did you to use the loud on which one the best solution is going to be his mission removed. every child clean up such a light with a spine, a light net, to entangle the piece of floating metal. i'm actually hoping another bit, but even these tests trust best thing cost about 15000000, new res depend based on to ask price guide and is hoping to talk costs by considering the clean up process right from the start. before they launch, you'd like them to put a docking plate on their satellite. chris bucket these team has developed a magnetic um that can attach to the metal plate. it'd be similar to having a hitch on the back of your car, so that a tow truck can come and grab onto it and pull that car out of the way. all satellites should have some kind of capability. us authorities recently brought to

in a new 5 year room for such a light speed, the overhead of to completing the emissions the space guideline to how to enforce. unfortunately, there is no space bodies that you can send and find them or to do something about destroying on one teeth or the funk such a lights. we found this science has also been an environmental disaster from the demonstration or test made by the us in the early stages then by china then by india in the late fee. by restaurants, the impact of those weapons on the space environment is worse than the loss of the satellite itself, with a number of central lights and all that set to increase full fold by 2030. the risk posed by space junk is increasing rapidly. the technology, it sets, especially for the remote admission, it's almost there so we can do something about it. but there's political commitment that is needed to buy these machines. so if we want to maintain a connected weld,

as we know it, governments, businesses and scientists will lead to see receive, we think how we treat us space environment that's going to be one heck of a spring clean, but it also gives a new meaning to the phrase, vacuum cleaner. back down here on the side is all that we have time for on this edition of made the, the, we use business magazine. if you want more from us, you can always find lots of extra episodes over on our website. c, w dot com slash business will be happy to see that. and until the next time we catch you here, take the,

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