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the motor sports, all of our scoring we say they're about never giving up sports flies every weekend on dw, the can organic oil fuel a green a future is the question that has scientists split basic method to use plants and animal products to power planes will put them on people as flights will look into the details shortly. we'll say coming up on this edition of made data, we use business magazine. we're in texas, west wind and started a plan. so,
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creating a storm guessing connect to what's holding back renewables in germany, and kind of eastern europe, the power of the continents to come to revolution. statements that all of that, but 1st, come pigs help you fly. the idea of using fat from the animals as jet fuel is gaining ground, but not without quoting control the sea plants and animal waste all seen as potential sources of clean power. but is it right or even realistic? the time about flying from paris to new york with the equivalent of 9000 pigs in your tank. one environmental great. what town? lots, what it would take to fuel a plane. it was that distance, pigs problems. office font which can be used in aviation field. it's some things that we're clean union wants to see more of in the future. we use animal fat
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because the level of quality animal fats are relatively easy to convert into sustainable aviation fuel animals, diesel. and the processing equipment that we have is, is a relatively set to. ready with some adapt taishan to to take those fates dogs. so man, i asked like ryan a one to start using animal fences soon as possible. but no life still can be slow to to field. instead of thoughts is to be taken from meat, industry waste and then added to ordinary kerosene. but why go to the trouble? there is a growing demand to use animals that india visual sector of within human. this will 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 can using audible funds is called if the other industries that rely on unable thoughts for the production like the cosmetics and food industries are worried. that wouldn't be enough to go round comfortable, pig stone, long trees. of course, the problem is that the more you direct them to batches reduction, the bigger issues you have for these industries, the have to find a dentist. it's a very awesome. yes. and that is of vegetable oil. and these are all north of the 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 palm oil means mohammed 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 the, the regulation being developed for aviation refill you aviation sets a cap of 3 percent of animal fat, the ride sustainable aviation fuel. however, this translates according to our reputations, to more than $1000000.00 tons of additional animals. but ultimately, flying last may be the only way to bring down combinations across here at nothing is bad to say that not everyone's been persuaded of the need for a green energy revolution. resistance is about 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 billed that 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. there's more wind and solar energy plants and projects than the so called lone star state. in the past, those large move eric 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. mcknight, deep zooming pickens, they just seemed diag, 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 energy, french multinational utility companies and their plan to expand to solar panel farm
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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 are very quiet. uh, you know, isolated the, you know, once the solar started coming in one, so 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 michael tate 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 or not. the impact on the environment dial and people system 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, microsoft into businesses. capitalism is maximizing profit. but you know, for us that live over here. you know what, 4th, 5th generation tax and use my own. 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 wild life. i'm going to fide, michael says he and his friends, and many of his neighbors will continue to push for extra for action against what
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they deem is the wrong place for solar panel farm to 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 the san angelo in west texas. it has always embraced all things. energy exploration is production harvesting and is 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. typically, 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. not only in terms of energy production,
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but in terms where almost the economy in its 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 phone. 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 like the they give account to the ability to, to recruit and cure a large scale investments that are easy use on the land. clearly non polluting 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 make sense. which brings us back east to mount vernon, texas. here we meet land on a be fx. pix 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, solar farm developers are buying up surrounding land starting here in this old place for sober 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 as they're letting the solar company moving back in nick's office and joined by david truesdale, the president of the franklin county environmental action council. the to spend
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countless hours every week trying to figure out how to protect texas native fairyland for them as land owners and preservation is the most important addition. biggest hurdle space, there's really no regulation. so renewables don't have to fall in advance with pe, you say we don't have to get environmental impact studies. but there i, well did i use the word and assault the owner 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. face and uphill battle in their stand, against regulated renewable energy developments and projects. despite the bleak reality of ongoing and increasing fights and legal battles between preservation,
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as land owners and the renewable energy industry, many one sensible rules and regulations, cooperation, and solutions for the future. now you might think that with wind power, it's the more wind the marietta, but did you know that it's actually possible to have too much wind earlier this year? enough wind blew in northern germany to at times power the entire country. in fact, that 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, but 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
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link the grids up to him and he's north and south with overhead lines met with enormous local resistance, meaning that the k was had to be laid under ground. 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 happened. we had to take it for granted that most of the time the electricity is coming out and your device where this is kelly centers. he's an engineer who researches how energy systems involved. 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, buyers, cables, and transformers called the grids. the grid is made up of the generators that
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create the electricity, like gas or nuclear power plants, or wind turbines. the transmission lines that carry it to so called substations, which transform into a lower voltage and the distribution lines, but finally delivered to homes and businesses. so solar panels and waiting turbans, they kind of have a might there. and so we can't quite control them as well as becoming possible. generators that we've had in the past dispatch of go means electricity sources we have available pretty much on demands like coal gas power plants, kind of turn them up and turn them down. according to how you want me to operate. solar and wind of 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. sure. but it's a different color that we have to compare to that was it gets
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a really study 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 supposed to reach 80 percent by 2030. so what challenges does a high shelf wind and sold off for a while? well that's the one they make, you depend on the width 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 words don't. cuz loud to doc doldrums describes times when there is little some and little wins and read oper right, has nightmare. and even on the days with plenty of balls, they might not be there exactly when the need. it's a renewable energy, if you like. how many, for example, not always there where you have to low. do you have any produces most of its wind
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energy and the north, most of it's solar energy in the south is currently 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 where the demand is. consequently, wind and so not causing grid of rates as a whole lot of headaches. but what if they are the problem about the grids? historically, we've put the power stations close to our cities and broad fuels like cold or gas, so later uranium to them the 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 in to generate took over the tricity. things have
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changed since the old 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 produced to where it's needed. so we have the power. this means we have to get to come next out. that's why griddle provides a tenant as buildings, you'd think, a 700 kilometer high voltage transmission line connecting germany's north to itself . when the sun doesn't shine in the south, to click it, wind energy from the north. at least that's the idea. there's transmission lines. the very, very large transmission lines is really good. so you have coverage, great 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. huge, better we pick, so already popping up more and more. we charge the battery when the spanish signing or the wind is blowing. and then you discharge 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 other solutions like hydrogen. we can make it from renewable electricity and spend burnett and power plants without any c o 2 emissions. that doesn't mean that we should hydrogen all the time because it's not very efficient, right? but for some situations we will still need it. and then there's another part of the
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solution which up until recently haven't really been discussed. we could be the opportunity. so you can increase generations to meet demands. you can also lower demand, the kind of neat stuff by somewhere in the middle. the vision is to build a technology driven smart grid that gets, operate as 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 it that's to hit on that 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 one we need to tackle with, with serious about quitting fossil fuel. because in the end of the back to the end of the transition. so we are not successful. the energy transition below is successful. and for me is,
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is that the rates we model when so that's know i turned 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 g o. the most or from warm water sources into and you can use that hate to keep your home 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 side and lower sectioning device man. i took a boy, some of the old buildings you can see here, behind me will be torn down,
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others extended. others rebuilt will also be moving the entire staff parking lot and constructing a new cylinder factory on it'll be a new logistics center. preparations are already underway by the 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 today by the authorities. responsible are all local to to see the to now. so that's why things were done so quickly. and they said, oh god, you always of course, how legal requirements were observed, catch you out of the variables that he's playing. some of them is that correct? told me, economist, designers of 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 peas. then there's probably a lot of stuff out here. 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
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perspective, 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, the luckier 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, which c o r heat pumps are developed here from scratch until the time that they're ready to go into series. production pumps are still mass assembled in germany too.
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but the new factory in slovakia means file on can double it's production to around half a 1000000 units per year. that 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. 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. and also including environmental audits, hon. 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 sparks the norm as investments across europe. giving a boost to the mass production of heat pumps, the metal, 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 the 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. the,
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