what do you see? it really is possible to reverse the researchers and scientists all over the world for you know, race against time. they are peers and rivals with one daring goals to help smart nature. the boy likes watching it on youtube dw documentary, the how does a long weekend every weekend sound? the idea of a full day working week is one that appears to be gaining popularity with workers

and bosses alike. in the submission of made will ask if it could ever become the norm will say coming up wind farms kind of low of bills to enough to in my back yard into be my guest locally. so its lithium will it end germany's import dependence? i've spaced junk. is it time for an extra terrestrial clean? so they've gotta be 19 pandemic forced a revolution in flexible working with many more of is now allowed to work from home . so that the next major shift to 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 of the work 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 flexible working hours, including a forward to a week,

the boss, jessica hudson 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 know right 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 a 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 keep that and 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, but more that 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. well, then we're on the right path. in the last 200 years have shown that this is possible, like this is a movie,

he is in 1825. the work week in germany was 82 as low with industrialization that 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 sale, some ocean and 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 a so a day, 5 days a week. and one wide spread mobile for a 4 day week. people work 10 hours a day. yeah. to reducing what times to 32 hours

a week brings even more benefits. pushy. study shows. we have 59 percent of employees involved with less stress that we had for trial. 71 percent cod reduce. that was a bit and i so i felt like by less 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 days, he still has a feed. so i like to know when 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. and that's really nice. and especially on sites aspect for an exemption of one another

aspect is that society profits from afford a week because people have more time that they don't have to spend earning wages, miss mitchell, when i buy something, but it can also lead to, for example, many more people doing volunteer work if i really got up and then something that benefit society to out. and just as all of us will, if you can try to get yourself from, 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 less. let's put it that way with it. so if i look back and compare us, 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 for 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 data time in stocks, any on house, local residents like like a china i've gotten used to them. his grandson doesn't even know what life was like . without them we strolled those up so they don't bother me at all. and we sit outside a lot in summer. it's no problem. i put it in his neighbors feel the same way. they've been to the doesn't don't we benefit from the turbines being that and we all think that's good. sounds good as it's just normal for us that that was mr. vince. it's great that the wind turbines are here to find is, uh huh. 120 kilometers. know if there's a ton of ludo that switch us $44.00 to barnes the less popular here. resident tanya shows. complaints at the ruining of view of the country side of yvonne i live with

what were on the sides because of beautiful landscape. it's gone. a great view that we have out here in the country was taken away from us. that's what on somebody else. and i'm like, tricity prices have risen to, antonia shows, doesn't profit from the locally produced wind energy. she has to get her editors a team 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, from 116, and i'll be done next stuff on up. everything is getting more expensive and yet we're not getting anything. it's a real shame. does. this will cost us 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, that his previous provider raised the price by almost $0.60 per kilowatt hour efficiency 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 or 3rd on the wind tug 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 tempe time. they receive yearly interest payments of at least 4 percent off. yeah, i know. yeah. even more when the wind blows harder thing 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 and then almost have to use the almost always we had to deal with the

skepticism of the local realms and consider how we were communicating with them. we also asked ourselves how they could benefit from it and cutting us. what does that cost us to rethink the advantages on, which is why we decided on this capital participation models not gonna cut you off? what's 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 the knows 1st hand how important the support of locals has to be for the energy transaction to succeed. and the largest system that people could identify with the project and are invested in it. and then they become individual advocates for wind energy themselves. and it won't affect since they're more involved. um the, it's easier to find solutions for a parent problem. so then if they were apathetic about, or even opposed to wind energy policy, is the height of dollars or the timelines is we're going to operating on the matter of kind of who to also helps. and investors and residents can come together, especially since new win products could be a financial boon for his constituency. as well as or in the past,

investors took the earnings, but in the end, we were left with nothing to show for. it was probably put up to them and that must change and the future just wasn't that typical. i'm not sign when pox have great potential in germany. now those who run them can be legally obligated to involved 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 the 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. the scientists here are trying to change that this well runs more than 3.5 kilometer has deep allowing the room, some of which 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 bring it to the geothermal plant to produce power. at the same time, they're working on a pilot projects to extract alisium out of the woman brine. you have one so give

we secured areas in which we can obtain lithium a line or you can get me from these areas alone. we would be able width 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 5 se, jim, many coverage the sources 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 as we i'm the ca, yes, we've pointed out that earthquakes are still occurring here and asked me for and quite a large number on the, on the i know have considerably more and in time, then in lawndale, on, even at a low production rate for the $465.00 leaders per 2nd and in time to non dollar check from and 50 leaders per 2nd in london. this will here. yes, but that should be raised significantly with lithium extraction for my newborn holes are to be made. and then we expect considerably more quick for me. yeah. it

seems the in time plant hasn't triggered more quake since 2009. but what if they stopped again? it is associated consumes bit damage is a curb. they'll be smaller ones to facades or individual homes. come to, 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, this is the energies renewable, and it's a raw material source close to home. but the whole time i could stay lantus. kelly 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 role material used in batteries. 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. i do need some feel to be an industry another aspect, and it is gaining acceptance in the population to consider 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. so once colds, the water is pumped back into the ground. but as we try to clean up our act 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 the satellites 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 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 to these signals and phone calls around the world. they facilitate google maps, gps and the internet transactions this dropbox, disaster planning, ministry, surveillance and, and traffic control. they help predict weather passions across 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 a space environment has this romanticized floating powered ice filled with nothing

but actually low as old. it has never be 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 mind made space debris. a flying around the 8th at high speed to on the flight of collisions is becoming a huge problem. with all the things speeds of up to 28000 kilometers an hour, one tiny screw colliding with a spacecraft. gonna have the impact of a 108 in the ocean if it possibly possible. it makes its way back and 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 collide. they can explosions, thousands of tiny pieces can also be traced back in space once something. so smooth spa hard, it's trying. let me, we've been noticing center 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, fonts 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 close to creating a super jump space highway. if we don't do anything that's going to eventually be to some areas of us, all may be unusable, the feats generations. and this is another environment that we have pleated 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 over 27000 logic 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 stay,

they're sending out more than 400000000 collision. and let's to center lights every month. but it's not an ideal fix. there are 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 side to send, you want to to observe this specific region on us to measure the ice thickness. that's not gonna happen. now. what about if we drastically reduce the number of the sensor light? knowing she's getting on. unfortunately, that's not a quick fix either because every condition in the old it generates a brand new cloud debris causing even more collisions and eventually a cascading ricochet effect, known as the capitalist enjoy. and we definitely want to have with that image and

not that, and her team at portsmouth university have been comparing space debris to plastic trash in the ocean. but i the casing that, that needs to be a or some trustee, nations or industries. the planning on using a little bit all using us to get to sit rounds or used to be a table. i'm say we need to decide how we're going to use this area sustainably. we see in the success of the highest east receive but has taken in 20 years to come to an agreement. and now we need to as 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 button up on re entry like a shooting stop. as you can imagine, that's not a cheap operation. the spacecraft remove a mission, especially if it's the 1st one and we still have to develop the technology. isn't a ballpark of a $100000000.00. you retain space agencies 1st,

actual removal emission will be launched in 2025 by a switch. don't quote me a space, look through space solution is essentially like a tow truck if you want to pick a just the company c o. we have a big crafting 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 hunt even with this object of 28000 kilometer per hour alone, our speed with the subject, and then capture it 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 re introduce it into the or sacraments here, where the objects will turn off. if the cost of these exhorted be done, then is really difficult to find the funds that you need in order to limited to the

state. professor judy m o l e i chief on the sorry space center is working on a lower cost space. junk removal concepts at the moment, the georgia you still out on which one the best solution is going to be his mission removed every child to clean up such a light with a spider like net. to entangle the piece of floating metal. i'm actually hoping to another bit that even these tests trust best thing cost about 15000000 you raise 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 block, a b 's 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 and 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 satellite speed, the overhead of to completing the admissions. but space guideline to how to enforce . unfortunately, there is no space bodies that you can send and find them or to do something about their destroying unwanted or defunct satellites. we found that science has also been an environmental disaster from the old age. that being demonstration or tests made by the us in the early stages than by china and then by india in the late fee by rest of the impact of those weapons on the space environment is worse than the loss of the satellite itself. with a number of central lights in old, it set to increase 4 fold by 2030. the risk posed by space junk is increasing rapidly. the technology is that's especially for the remove emission. 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 main, hey, not connected, weld as we know it,

governments, businesses and scientists will need to see with the 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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