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to we are all set and we're watching closely. we all seem to bring you the story behind the news. we rolled about unbiased information for 3 months. done the can organic oil fuel a green a future? is the question that has scientists split visit method to use plants and animal products to power planes. we'll put them on people as flights. we look into the details shortly. what's that coming up on this edition of made data? we use business magazine. we're in texas, west wind and started a plan,
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so creating a storm guessing connect to what's holding back renewables in germany on con, eastern europe, the power of the continents to come revolution state changes at all if that's but 1st come pigs help you fly. the idea of using facts from the animals as jet fuel is gaining ground, but not without quoting control the sea plant and animal waste all seen as potential sources of clean power. but is it right or even realistic? a tile about flying from paris to new york with the equivalent of 9000 pigs and new tank. one environmental great. what town? lots, what it would take to fuel a plane. it was that distance picks have a lot the font which can be used in aviation field. it's something that you're clean. union wants to see more of in the future. we use animal fat because uh,
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the low quality animal fats are relatively easy to convert into sustainable aviation fuel and also the diesel. and the processing equipment that we have is, is a relatively searchable with some adapt taishan to, to type those feed stocks. so man, i like ryan is once we start using animal sciences soon as possible. to know, life still can we slow to to field instead of thoughts is to be taken from meat, industry waste and then added to own re kerosene. but why go to the trouble? there is a growing demand to use animals that india, the sector of with the new mandates for refuel to you because they will be counted as sustainable education fuels. refill you is a political agreement aimed at cutting c o. 2 emissions from aviation across the
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european union plan using unable funds is called a thought. but other industries that rely on animal side for the production, like the cosmetics and food industries, i'm worried that wouldn't be enough to go round. comfortable, take stones, i long trees. of course. the problem is that the more you direct them to batches, reduction of the bigger issues you have for these industries, the have to find the benefits. a very awesome you know, 7 inches of vegetable arms. and these are almost not to be from well, um that has the cheapest option available and having the most similar properties done and will fence have issues connected to deforestation to schumann writes foundations and many other programs, many environmental risk via palm oil, could become the number one, alternative low pond oil means more palm oil times patients, which usually come at the expense of the rain forest. it's important to note as
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well that the european commission recognizes that and that the regulation being develops, the aides and refill you aviation sets a cap of 3 percent of animal fat, the ride sustainable aviation field. however, this translates according to our preparations to more than $1000000.00 tons of additional animals that's ultimately flying. last may be the only way to bring down carbon emissions across here. it nothing is bad to say that not everyone's been persuaded of the need for a green energy revolution. resistance is that the strongest in places that have built a reputation around fossil fuels, for example, america's oil producing power house, texas. however, it may surprise you to hear that more wind and solar energy plants are being built there than anywhere else in the us. but not all of the local was a happy to see the turbines and panels popping up.
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everything's bigger in texas. they say, no doubt, when it comes to renewable clean energy. this rings true. no other place in the us as more wind and solar energy plants and projects than the so called lone star state. in the past those large areas. landscapes, those huge privately owned farms and cattle ranches for which texas is also famous for gave way for more and more equally massive wind turbine and solar panel projects all over the state. but that's known. this is michael peak if we're meeting the grandson of american business magnate pickens, they just inside the texas one and a half hour drive east of that. michael is accessing a group of land owners who will post a renewable energy project in the account. come on and is our house michael describing n g french multi national utility companies and their plan to expand to solar panel
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farm which is already in the works right next to his family's property. the job was that it's, you know, it's, it's bottom land, east texas, bottom land. and you know, there's not much you can grow out here. you can run small cap cal operations, but it's just very quiet. uh, you know, isolated um, but you know, once the solar started coming in one sol, in this case, angel came to dyke to build a solar farm and nightmare began picking said he's taking us on a little tour to show us that it's massive solar farm in his county and id simons and for the people who live around. so here's my continued house, you know, and they're just right here behind me. how much is his land worth? now you think anybody wants to come by his little one acre when he got this serious, he won't even come outside his house anymore. what bedford's michael and others the
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most? why build a solar farm here in done? this is mostly wetland and a densely forested area. drains a lot here and seems in many ways not at all well situated for solar form, clean energy on the impact on the environment. bio ecosystem here is devastating. large wooded areas must be clear, white lights has impacted run of water. pollution is a major problem. all things to solar. michael. so it's a business, it's capitalism. it's maximizing profit. but you know, for us that live over here. you know, what, 4th, 5th generation tax and use my home. and you guys gonna show up and bull those, my home and pollute my water, and lower my land value and destroy my eco system in my wildlife. i'm going to fight. michael says he and his friends and many of his neighbors will continue to push for extra, for action against what they deem is the wrong place for so in our panel form or
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take it somewhere else. you know, take it somewhere in san angelo, there's a whole bunch of flat, treeless homeless land up all over the panhandle. you can put a lot of solar if the transmission lines don't go out there. well then maybe the government needs to build willow, san angelo in west texas. it is always embrace all things. energy exploration is production harvesting and it's distribution. an o orange town. san angelo is doing well for itself these days embracing what they called renewable energy opportunity. the local chamber of commerce busy as a be assisting with the recruitment of 3 massive solar power plants. if we do have a whole lot of land here and not all that is equally airable, the highest and best use for that land is often times a different solution, in this case, solar present. some really, really important advantages,
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not only in terms of energy production, but in terms where almost the economy and his growth. just at the end of last year, south korean power company finished building the massive control solar valley project. 447000 solar panels generate up to 160 megawatts of pump. before that, another one came on line in 2020, and this 3rd big solar project was being developed and build right now. of all 3 projects together, amount to an investment of $800000000.00 into the account. one of the reasons why we also embrace renewables is because they gives the ability of the they give the county the ability to, to recruit and cure a large scale investments that are easy use on the land. clearly non colluding, reliable as long as the equipment is, maintains and the natural resources like the wind and the sun continue to do their jobs. they're, they're, they're, they're virtually timeless. in san angelo,
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the sun is almost always shining. the town has space. a lot of space and it is surrounded by flat and bare farm and ranch land. as far as one can see, large solar and wind energy projects makes sense. which brings us back east to mount vernon, texas. here we made land on a b fx fix, owns a lot swap of valuable historical prairie land in franklin county. the retired lawyer is taking us on a little tour, showing us what mentally speaking is at stake. mount vernon, a solar farm developers, are buying up surrounding land starting here, that's all lease for solver. and it will go for 9 months, including what this fellow has. so he's got a boat, isn't house, and everything, and those people will, they're being paid so much. they'll just if they're letting the solar company moving back in nick's office and joined by david to stay on the president of the franklin county environmental action council,
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the to spend countless hours every week trying to figure out how to protect texas native prairie land them as land owners and preservation is the most important issue. biggest hurdle space. there's really no regulation, so renewables don't have to fall in advance with p u say we don't have to get environmental impact studies. but there i that i use the word and assault on, on our environment. but i think that what happens in the technology is advancing so fast. and the people are making so much money in it that they're not actually looking at the damage to the environment. david truesdale effects and michael pickens, as well as countless other land owners in texas space. and i'll pill battle in their stand against regulated renewable energy developments and project. despite the bleak reality of ongoing and increasing fights and legal battles between
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preservation, as planned, owners and the renewable energy industry. many here, one sensible rules and regulations, cooperation, and solutions for the future. now you might think that with wind power, it's the more winds the marietta, but did you know that it's actually possible to have too much wind early this year? enough wind blew in northern germany to at times power the entire country. in fact, there was so much winds that some turbines had to be switched off. cheap, clean energy ended up being wasted. meanwhile, southern germany households were having to save on electricity. power was imported from neighboring countries and polluting coal plants. what kicked up again the whole episode showed it isn't enough to produce renewable energy. you have to have the means to get it where it's needed. a plan to link the grids of germany's north
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south with overhead lines met with enormous local resistance, meaning that the k was had to be laid underground. instead, i know around slower and much more expensive process in breathing. jimmy's infrastructure is proving something of a power struggle. when's the last time you plugged in your phone and it didn't charge? well, depending on where you live, this might have never happens. i mean, i didn't take it for granted that most of the time the electricity is coming out and your device where this is kelly simmons. she's an engineer who researches how energy systems of all. so what's going on behind the scenes is actually like from the electricity you use is only generated as you use. and to get to you a trip to an intricate network, wires, cables and transformers called the grid. the grid is made up of the generate tests
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that create the electricity, like gas or nuclear power plants or wind turbines. the transmission lines that carry it to so called substations, which transform it to a low voltage and the distribution lines that finally delivered to homes and businesses. so solar panels and waiting turbans, they kind of have a minus. and so we can't quite control them as well as becoming possible. generators that we've had in the past dispatch a little means electricity sources we have available pretty much on demands like coal or gas power plants and kind of turn them up and turn them down. according to how you want me to operate. solar and wind are the opposite of this non dispatcher, but we need the sun to shine and the wind to blow for them to work. and this flakiness has changed the way our grids i managed. i wouldn't say so much or it's a different color that we have to compare to that was a yes, a ready?
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so the yes back. this is tim. maya you against the c o o. off one of germany's for grid operators in germany, more than 40 percent of the tricity comes from renewable sources. it's opposed to reach 80 percent by 2013. so what challenges does a high shelves wind and sold off for a while? well that's the one they make. you depend on the weather is more to exactly what we can expect to the next phase. we unfortunately gotten a lot better at this, but even the best full cost come changed whether the german was doing cuz allowed to dock doldrums describes times when there is little some and little wins agreed upon right as nightmare. and even on the days with plenty of balls, they might not be there exactly when that needed renewable energy. if you like the company, for example, i'm always there where you have so low. germany produces most of its wind energy
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and the not most of its solar energy in the south is currently in no way to getting large amounts of wind energy down south where there's a lot of demand from industry or much solar energy up north for that matter. it's a similar story in the us. most wind energy is generated in the middle of the country, but more than 2 thirds of the population lives here within 100 miles of the boat. so that's when the demand is. consequently, wind and so not causing great operators a whole lot of headaches. but what if they are the problem about the grids? historically, we've put and tell us stations close to our cities and broad fuels like cold or gas, so later uranium to them electricity usually didn't have to travel from solar and winds, on the other hand, have to be put to where the fuel so sunshine, wind is most abundant and utility companies. i'm the only ones generating power people are putting solar panels on the roofs. for example, traditional consumers are turning into generators of electricity. things have
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changed since feel, but upgrades happened. they don't fit the energy system we're trying to build. so we have to transform the electricity from where it's put use to where it's needed. so we have the power. this means we have to get to come next out. that's why grid up our rates attendant. just building suits, link, a 700 kilometer off high voltage transmission line, connecting germany's north to itself. when the sun doesn't shine in the south, could get wind energy from the north. at least that's the idea. there's transmission lines. the very, very large transmission lines is really just so you have covering rate issues, you have issues over, you know, people that are concerned about in detroit. stacy's and environmental impacts. so building those projects take a really long time and they be really,
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really expensive. each bit to re pink, so already popping up more and more. the charge the battery when the spanish shining or the wind is blowing. and then you just charge it when those solar resources are wind resources, wind down. some grades also store energy with some title to use, so it plus electricity to come water up a hill and let it run down through a turbine. when you need it back off the solutions can only shift a few hours worth of energy, though full of days or weeks. for example, to cover flow to we need to other solutions like hydrogen. we can make it from renewable electricity and spend burnett's and power plants without any c o 2 emissions. that doesn't mean that we should have the hydrogen all the time because it's not very efficient, right? but for us to sell considerations, we will still need it. and then there's another part of the solution which up until
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recently hadn't really been discussed. we could be the opportunity. so you can increase generations to meet demands. you can also lower demand to kind of need to apply. the vision is to build a technology driven smart grid that gives operators a lot more information to flexibly balance supply and demand of all this sounds incredibly challenging and expensive. well, that's because it is this industry study. it calculates about to head down at 0 targets. grits worldwide need $1.00 trillion dollars of investments every year until 2015 and that's excluding new solar panels of wind turbines. changing the grid is a monumental task, but it's when we need to tackle if we're serious about quitting fossil fuels. because in the end of the back to the end of the transition, so we are not successful and there's a transition below is successful. and for me is that the race we might when. so
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this know i turn in the gemini heat pumps have become something called a hot topic because these are all the clever devices drawing heat from the environment such as from surrounding and from underground geo mos or from warm water sources into. and you can use that hate to keep your home well in a way that's up to 5 times more efficient than a traditional gas boiler. however, political flip flopping over, the technology has seen demand. the heat pumps full but manufacturers seem confident, it will fire up again soon. a. the german manufacturers are gearing up for increased demand and new factories are needed. steeple elkhorn has big plans for its production site in lower sectioning provides . man, i think about some of the old buildings you can see here, behind me will be torn down. i thought brothers extended others. rebuilt will also
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be moving the entire staff parking lot and constructing a new cylinder factory own it'll be a new logistics center. preparations are already underway by the own steeple elkhorn is keeping production in germany, but many of its rivals, including silent, shifting manufacturing to eastern europe. the company has plants in germany, france, and the u. k. and is now constructing a new one. it's an, it's a slovak here, spread over a 100000 square meters. it's costing the company over 200000000 euros. the industrial zone on the outskirts of the town is huge. according to local media reports, the development was subsidized by the state to the tune of 20000000 years. with the investor also granted a reduction in income tax. in the town hall, the mirror would rather not discuss the details. a boulevard me. you had another chevy by the department. i was the permits of the company needed were granted
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quickly. reaching out to football. i need a little bit i by the authorities responsible are all local to what i see the have to now. so that's why things were done so quickly. and this other guy that you always of course, all legal requirements were observed catch you already are the most that he's playing some of them is that correct? told me economist design is oscar has compiled a study on a heat pump. manufacturing hubs. park inclusion, central and eastern europe are becoming production strong holds a number of firms are also investing in poland. bosh, and don't put them yes. 6 months in length. and the japanese manufacturer died in march. they're all building new heat pump factories for more than $200000000.00 euros each. creating over a 1000 new jobs of peace. then there's 5 mountains, slovakia and so central eastern europe is very well positioned for this because it's close to the final market. and us not only from the locational perspective,
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but also it has very well developed infrastructure making is quite smooth, to shift goods to the final market. and also in itself represents a growing market. so we have seen also in countries such as poland, check republicans, slovakia, more and more consumers demanding heat pump. so while most of these products will be exported in itself, the fact that it is an attractive market also plays a role. is there a danger of germany falling behind due to manufacturers basing their production in eastern europe? not as far as violent is concerned. the management says it's investing heavily and research and development at the company's h q in room side germany. this is where a new heat pumps are designed and subjected to extensive testing. when we, i'm here and let's over the last few years, we've quadrupled. the number of development engineers see of this. our heat pumps are developed here from scratch until time that they're ready to go into series. production. pumps are still mass assembled in germany too. but the new factor in
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slovakia means file on can doubled its production to around half a 1000000 units per year. there would have been no space for a new facility and build up on i'm side. expansion here is limited to a small production hall for making all the electronic parts. so at least the brains of the heat pumps the electronic control units will continue to be made in germany among managers. so that q is still seen as a low wage market, despite wages rising rapidly there to a single loop. what motivated us to build a plant in slovakia? it wasn't labor costs advantages for there was a faster approval times their size to hop. so in 2020 we made the decision to build and then we went through a similar process to what you have in germany. also including environmental audits, except that we get approval a year later, you know,
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the column which is significantly quicker than in germany. programs for curbing emissions from heating systems have sparked enormous investments across europe, giving a boost to the mass production of heat pumps. the well, whatever it is we use to pump out the energy of the futures will surely be cleaner than what we're using now. and here at made will follow each and every development for you. that's all from this additional fee that we use business magazine. but if you want more of our additions, cost, find them on websites. maybe i'll see you over that. if not, i'll see you next to the
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