the computers that most of the governments that go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work. how that can take all, we'll say, that's how they can also go terribly. now the maybe you're familiar with the saying necessity is the mother of all invention around the world right now. but the subsidy is quite high as countries by climate change and the inventions, the coming take, for example, geothermal heat. iceland has been relying on it for years think so it's volcanic

activity, but we're gonna look at how even germany is now trying to tap into geothermal. but drilling deep into the earth surface. in fact, you could say that drilling deep is the focus of this week's made. it's a search for solutions. welcome to our show. here's what else is coming. we'll look at how the ocean could work as a giant sheet pump. in theory, at least, we'll hear from a chinese researcher about his experiences here in germany. and we'll look at a flexible solar film the could change the way that we think about solar panels. if you're like me, you've never visited the earth's core. but scientists tell us it's thousands of degrees. what if we could take just a little bit of that work for our needs here on the surface? that's the idea, at least behind deep geothermal energy, which drills bar deeper than traditional projects. and like all forms of geothermal energy, it's almost emissions free. germany's 1st geothermal plant is now under construction . let's take a look to this thrill has reached the depth of 1800 meters.

the drilling water gradually starts steaming. we want to go where it's at this drilling rag in southern germany. the crew are in sterling for oil. they're aiming to penetrate hot rock. it's to be one of the 1st power plants in the world to tap thermal energy from a depth of 4000 meters. hot water will supply electricity and districts heating the so far. the most common types of renewable energy. i've been solar power and wind power. deep thermal energy become the 3rd major renewable energy and the potential game changer. 50 kilometers south of munich. the crew may have reached the depth of 1800 meters, but they still need to go more than twice that the the team is

international. most of them hail from the oil and shell gas sectors. here in germany, there drilling for hot rock. we have a huge variation of wells between a 100 meters and 8000 meters. but yeah, we're, we're activities picking up and a lot of the technology that we're using and geothermal is very similar to the technology we're using. and shell gas, the price is for shale gas drilling have dropped. that's why geothermal technology company ever can afford to drill wells for deep geothermal plans. the projects managing director, daniel meg, says it's the 1st plant of its kind in the world. right now we are on the journey to 4500 meters steps. where we go so deep because this attempt to john the rocks that we want to use i, when we reached our target steps information,

then we start splitting up the was andrew many, many different letters to get to a very large red da to and the sub surface once they reach the target steps, they will start drilling a further 4000 meters at an angle with multiple laterals. here, the rock is 160 degrees celsius. the girls are flexible and locate each other. if you have magnetic signals. the installation will essentially be a network of radiators filled with water closed loop system for districts heating approximately 0 cost saved drill into the rock with a pressure of $10.00 to $20.00 tons. the diamond drill bits have water nozzles for flushing cuttings away from the bit. we want to drill a 22 to 2 meters per hour with this to a bit of clothes in between. we will take some time to clean the whole and to complete the whole. we plan to be at 2400 meters in about 4 days

as they drove them deeper heart sandstone, sorry is out. once they reach the target that the water is flurry, it will be boiling hot plate or the underground for holes will be inflated with pipes like these it will take 3 years in all to complete the underground heat exchangers. it's a huge operation with up to $200.00 workers on the site. there are 2 towers for the 2 bar holes. neighboring farm provides accommodation for the engineers. at the same time, they're planning for construction of a power plant which is due to be ready. and just over a year's time to the we a beauty and power as it. so it'd be a combine. it is your thermal reading process. we football plan. you're also going to provide the heat into the city. a power generator is to provide

electricity or for $10000.00 households. the plant will then generate districts heating for up to 80000 more households. deep geothermal energy is a stable source of continuous power. unlike solar and wind energy that depend on the weather, it still couldn't replace them. we want to be part of it. and then we can reduce your rings every somebody days. so when the wind is blowing and increase the production when we have available, it becomes highly complimentary to the so what's the difference between deep geothermal energy and other kinds of geothermal, heat pumps only reach the depth of up to about 100 meters. hydrothermal energy draws on hot groundwater at depth of

a 1000 meters on more deep geothermal energy uses hot rock layers. at depths of over 4000 meters ever says it's already got most of the 202350 1000000 euro investment needed. germany is an important market because of the many districts heating networks. here we have 4 sol, strategic investors to see the potential for technology and for the future business or to support our goals, such as a, b, p, o, v, a or b, h, b being or large mining companies, gas districts heating from fossil fuel power plants is no longer in demand from 2026, the company will be providing green districts heating to munich. and in 2 years time, they're due to start a newborn hole in northern germany to provide geothermal energy to another major

city. was not just deep in the earth where researchers are looking for new energy solutions. also, when the seas like the coast of scotland, where generators are using wave power to make electricity. here's another possibility, or in theory, differences in water temperature mean that the world's oceans could actually work, like a massive heat exchanger producing carbon free energy. but again, that's the theory, the reality. and especially the business case for such technology that's much trickier. there is a way to turn the ocean and then on limits. it pauses all, you need to something like this plus really warm and cold water. now you can produce renewable energy of round the clock. and the basic principle has been around for more than a 100 years. can this really satisfy all to us for more and oval energy? this evening? leave me a wreck to list technology is called oceans the energy conversion or tech. and so i

don't mean it takes advantage of the temperature difference between gold and cold water. when you look at the surface of the ocean, the bolts it can be wides won't because it's keeps it up by the sun in tropical water that can be around $26.00 degrees celsius. but the deeper you go and everyone who swims and a leg or dives in an ocean experience, is that the kona, the water gets at 1000 meters deep. the temperature reaches roughly 4 degree celsius. and this difference in temperature is what ocean thermal energy conversion utilizes. so housing generate energy from that, it's quite simple. you need a heat exchange of the warm surface water heat. so fluid that has a low boiling point, that fluid evaporates create a thing, is theme, and that steam runs a turbine generating electricity similar to a regular steam engine. then the steam gets cooled by the deep sea water back into

it, liquids and the cycles repeat. well, see what i itself doesn't boy like here with this thing, my hands on now basically the sea water, which now heats up the fluids inside. and as it can see, it goes up and there was a, a time on in there, it was spent. this process can run 247. i'm like the renewable energy. the ground work for this technology was late in 1881 by french because this is chuck. i've seen das on his student george cloth, and actually build the 1st book on successful tech plant. in 1930 late the interest, the no tech peak when oil prices exploded during the oil crisis in 1980 us president jimmy casa, assigned the law, a to ensure the production of 10000 megawatts of electricity from low tech and the next 2 decades. the problem is that you need to get that cold water up to the surface on show where the

heat exchanger has ever had the name of science. well, we have all the less hold holds, getting to see what's up to the surface. it's done with pipes that i'm more than 2 kilometers long. well, and here's the best of luck to kind of it's the thing a success current lead out to on show research plans one on the island of coolant and japan, with a 100 kilowatts and the other one in hawaii with a 105 kilowatts french developers, was set to launch a 16 megawatt plans in mont scenic in 2020. but the project has reportedly been shelves due to technical difficulties. the other research projects as well, but non last very long. this also means that there is little to no continues energy production from tech until now. and just for comparison,

the $100.00 kilowatt pilot plants that we talked about earlier. one offshore wind turbine is a 100 times bigger when it comes to capacity. so even though it's not a new idea, this technology is still very much in its infancy. most of the pilot plans west sets up on shore to make a tech commercially viable. at that, a large scale, you need to go off sharp. this is her mind. coupla from a kite ocean engineering. the company has been developing opec pods in hawaii since 1979. you know, the 510 amount of pipes that you need for your, your cold water and even for your return your discharge pipeline as well. and the amount of trenching and shore line crossing for commercial scale plants would just be infeasible. stand cost for him to as well going off shore makes it possible to install multiple low tech pons next to each other.

similar to offshore wind pucks. but currently costs are still more than double the price of the renewables. the tricky construction of the deep sea water pipes are a ton of major investors. but before we get into that, let's look at where this technology can be used. the major limiting factor is that we need a big temperature difference between the sauces and the deep sea water. warm surface . what is available all year round and the tropical equitorial zone. so, oh, tech would, will bring more renewable energy to tropical islands. many of them still rely on the diesel generators. studies even suggest that if you disregard practical and financial pedals, oh tech could power the in high. yeah, well hypothetically. but before i would say i can even produce a fraction of a tow hour if need to overcome major handles that potentially suit and how to calculate price. that being number one today, estimates for

a 100 megawatt low tech plants can range from $718000000.00 to $1500000000.00 us dollars. and there is another big on known called water fight and the pipes, the cold water pipe, these days hot plastic pipes up to 3 meters in diameter on no problem before a 100 megawatt plant unique pipes almost 4 times that size and pipes that big hadn't been developed yet, it is complex because the pipe needs to be stable. i'm flexible at the same time to not break apart. when it gets hit by waves or current. it's proven to be so tricky that an indian opec plant never went online because the deep sea water pipe failed . and even if an old tech pond, what worked, it could be destroyed by a storm. that's what's happened to one of the 1st pilot plants in 1930. this uncertainty has driven away companies with more than $40000000000.00 us dollars in

revenue. lockheed martin was set to build the biggest tech plant to date in china. but drop the project due to its costs, but it's possible that costs could be costs, for example, in the heat exchange it to give you a bit of perspective. the heat exchangers on a commercial scale, a tech plant, are about a 3rd of the entire project cost. so the, the reason that these are so expensive for commercial attack is the up, you've, titanium, deep seawater is very corrosive. we've developed that we call the pin foiled heat exchanger and as the name implies, we're using bin files. and the purpose of that is basically we're trying to reduce the amount of material and also the size. another big question mark is the actual effect on the environment because you're moving insane amounts of water. we're talking about 4300000000 liters of one more time and $2200000000.00 lenses of cold water per day for small plots that are

a lot of question marks about our tech, the economics, the environmental side effects, the cold water pipe, and today's ponds i just wait a tiny to figure anything of that out and in the last 10 years, not much. this happened. so without serious investment outtake won't be taking over any time soon. he's an intellectual star in china, here in germany where he lives. and researches is rather anonymous. showing b o is director of the max planck institute for us, the logical research. his work focuses on migration and its effect on the state society work, even population demographics. we asked him about his personal experiences with migration and his thoughts on a life and career split between cultures. my name is young jones. i was born in 1972 and when joe china for been trying isn't coming as color was almost inevitable for me given the

cultural fever in 198 my china and i that time loss in the west in philosophies were introduced at the time as a high school students that i was interested in these topics i was calling to check on that date to 70 to see what thing without sure if we see okay, i can make sure i can chose to work in sociology and ask for apology because they don't approach things from the viewpoint of big ideas. they focus on concrete behaviors. and i came to the max planck institute with a very important goal. my mom, so it was don't ask what we can do for anthropology law school anthropology can do for us, for our wills today. when that mission and then go, the woman will mention condition. so she will go shop with my impression of german society,

comes mainly from my work. good. what impresses me most is designed to innovate, to there's a trying to experiment, which even if we might file the tone for 4, so you've got ship, i've seen the ship to do it for 2. she gemini, public interest in academic and social issues is greater than elsewhere. in other words, the german public likes to the banks to argue the answer to said, to call control in what i told you. and i'd like to give it one to the shop with your shake line to a motion to me, and i'm a complete stranger here. but jim and society is still interested in what i have to say. i used to be at the when i have a different opinion they're interested in what i have to say to somebody who kind of i appreciate data last week. so, and i'm grateful for that least jim and ask that you gives me the sense that our

research has public value attach it or to the don't call that the n c. i think that when you compare young people in china to young people in other countries like germany, they have a loss in common sense for you to, especially when it comes to how they perceive other people and what they perceive as stressful. tell me if i'm sure i'm a yahoo should say what good to him for commission thing, but i do feel that china has nothing easy place for them, especially for young people. publish a time and especially for new university graduates who entering society at a time when the economy is in decline on how to go. i sent you the chrysler in the field. and when showing his relationship with the world has become more complicated to him to send them to your pharmacy. i got that. so it's hung up with english and they to young people in china. so what they had relatively clear answers and goals

or put the ones they don't believe that anymore through the june, they might not feeling secure as such. but they constantly in a situation where they're full, hilton competes. how's it down? and they feel that they have to work hard for them and if they don't, they won't succeed. but even with hardwood success isn't always in reach. so they have to work even harder. and that's where the sense of precariousness comes in the lights of why one of the biggest problems facing china is the lack of social resilience in grand street society. typically, how can the basic ethics of bound daily life of human thickness, the mutual castle, one another be protected and preserved with especially in the face of all the shocks and disruptions, china res, facing today by me in a tooth san division this year? i believe it's time to move me on the perspective of traditional anthropology is the discipline of questions they ask, are still good and useful for them,

but we need to pay more attention to the situation of young people today. that will also help answer apology become more relevant off and to bring a fresh perspective into play. one glenda, except the or i from a great minds of great potential solar energy will play a bigger role in the coming decades. but only if we could expand this coverage around the world, and that's not easy. traditional solar modules are quite heavy and rigid. they don't fit on unconventional roofs or on curve surfaces. but all that could be changing. the german firm has now developed a flexible solar panel, but if things go right, could actually drapes solar cells on all kinds of new surfaces. take a look of this film generated electricity. it's less than 2 millimeters, thick, flexible, answerable. it's also 10 times lighter than conventional solar panels that can be

applied almost anywhere sides proves silos. wind turbines, even on glass panes, antenna physics professor karlia was one of the leading researchers on our cannick solar cells. he co founded the company clearly of tech 2000000 square meters of solar film comes off its production line every year. the dressed and base company is a global market leader, its customers and cleared, samsung, eon, logistics, and retail groups. and movers, we can install solar sales in places where they haven't seen any till now that everyone's talking about energy and self sufficient buildings long ago, but many results, windows and facades, on being utilized right now. and on the suited to traditional solar cell and a single convince elk on this looks popular. the solar film is made from hydrocarbons. the organic molecules are 1st synthesized and then applied to the

carrier film using vapor deposition. nearly a tech doesn't allow the process to be filmed in order to protect the patented technology. it's the reason why the company doesn't have to rely on suppliers from china or russia. yeah, but it was kind of, we don't use any scans, ray of metals, and we don't use any toxic materials. i had me in a lead volume. there is a, virtually endless supply of the resources we employ. you know, technology by the altogether. bulio tech already has some $450.00 patents on its technology. currently it's panels convert about 8 percent of the energy and sunlight into electricity. that's still quite a bit lower than conventional solar modules at about 20 percent efficiency. but healey, a tech is hoping to catch up within just a few years if this understanding funds that got you on, we want to manage that seem to 2020 again. but by the 20 thirty's we definitely

want to be competitive on efficiency and price. other than that, and given the advantages our product provides, we expect that conventional solar cell technology will gradually be replaced by what we're doing here with arrow garrick photovoltaics. our analysts expect that the market for again x solar cells will continue to grow a 2020 of the global organic solar cells market was valued at some $97000000.00 by 2031. it's expected to be $807000000.00 in good part because the film is silver. so tile, it can be applied practically anywhere. like on this bicycle garage, which can charge for e bikes a day, the be all going to of what the panics, photo voltaic can be, easily incorporated into roofing film. so in the future, we'll be able to cover roots with a film that comes ready made with integrated solar cells. and these are lots of the products into this for lighter and more flexible, and more sustainable that could help give the technology an edge over conventional

silicon base solar modules. necessarily, the can production isn't particularly eco friendly in several respects. how do i say you also get a photo? it will tell you it's have some key advantages in that respect of on demand for julia. text solar film is high higher than the company can meet at the moment. they only supply selected commercial customers. but healey, a tech is planning to build 10 new factories that private customers will also have access to the organic solar found the power from the sun from deep underneath the earth, even from the sea. clever ideas are everywhere and reality matches promise. they could actually provide us with solutions for carbon free energy. so all are part of that greater effort finding a more sustainable way to live and making money in the process. and that's it for this episode of me will see against

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