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tv   Made in Germany  Deutsche Welle  August 15, 2024 12:30am-1:00am CEST

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a show in the clouds as times and then when generation nash dw documentary the, you've probably heard of bikes made out of woods and in the past, even cause for airplanes. what is a highly versatile, durable, and of course, sustainable resource. one that's also used in a growing number of buildings. the problem is i'll force on the supply of 10, but under threats, thanks to climate change, model culture, plantations, and destructive pests. how about a natural solution? also coming up in the shows of someone found that protects the environment and it's fish recycling compadres to tricky. and then you might think on
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a young business woman who recovered from the phone out, the big thoughts of germany as far as this used to look like this. but now they look like this in just a couple of years. this decades old forest has become unrecognizable. the same thing is happening in many parts of germany, europe and north america. but this isn't your typical the planet is dying story. this could actually be good news, but to understand why, let's back track a little bit. well, maybe more than a little bit to the end of world war 2. a lot of the world is in ruins and needs to be rebuilt. the allied forces, understandably, you want reparations from germany, but it's broke. so they agree that the country will pay partly and materials for example, and bought lots of timber,
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according to some estimates equivalent to 10 percent of the countries for us. so now for us does need to replant big areas asap to rebuild germany itself. and which tree did they choose? mostly the spruce, which looking back was maybe not the best decision. but at that time, it seems like a good idea to find out why we're driving to, to ring you in the center of germany to meet funding for us though to face this navy is displayed and it's fast growing. regularly deliver century high quality where they can easily be processed at sawmills into furniture flooring . it's used quite widely. as is english, they have items and spa. that's why it's also a very lucrative treat german forest as planted vast areas with them in straight rows that make it easy to get in. and harvest spruce is of the most common tree in
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germany and make up over a quarter of all forests. but that is changing rapidly because of what made this one a culture so profitable is also what made it so vulnerable. forest around the world, the suffering from more intense and frequent drought, wild fires, and storms weakening, entire ecosystems, and germany is no exception. the longest, some is due to climate change mean the forests are too dry, and the trees 1st, especially spruce street, they comparatively need a lot of water, but the root system is quite shallow. so they comp access reservoirs deep down. so while that's not the best news for the trees all for humans, and there is one little creature that loves what's happening right now into the box . this tiny little insect has been monitoring its way through many of germany's in europe. as far as the box. people of course, loves the box. it boils whole into the tree and then release its pheromones to draw
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a mate inside there they reproduce. emily eggs, a healthy tree usually produces resin to seal up the holes and to protect itself from the beatles. but stuff, the weak trees cannot. that's why the bulk beetle is having a fused. i don't think john bodies vision like 4 years ago this area was holy forest. and dyslexia, if we're standing here now, wednesday last part of this area was infested in doors this year. that area could also be, instead of in a matter of funded by the beatles. either way is that transport nutrients and water disperses and die of fast and mel nutrition. the beetle is fairly spreading across europe and the halter it gets, the more beetles will breed. what a full scale infestation looks like can be seen in bach beetle central, which is the hobbs national park in the middle of germany, where we're headed here about 90 percent of all spruce
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is opted. the box depot has come and gone, leaving behind the region. that is quite frankly shocking to look at. we're meeting the whole on peach, the head of the hots national park. the hots region is hit so hard because it had a very big concentration of spaces. but for peach and many others, this post apocalyptic looking scenario isn't a disaster. quite the opposite. for him, the bulk beetle isn't the villain. it's actually a blessing in disguise. the 5 years you have a question is what's happening later. but what's happening is that the old spruce trees are gone and the forest that belongs here is coming. when you see what kind of frank and how much life areas and it's beautiful, it's great and truly exciting. you push button. the pol, cut down a section of the forest as a safety barrier so that the be cool will have a hot a time spreading into neighboring forest. but apart from that, the national park decided to let nature be. nature did not find the box. and nature
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is indeed doing its thing. different areas of the national park are treated differently. some pod square trees are springing up on their own. i left to their own devices like this area that died off about 6 years ago. some parts need a little bit of help, meaning formerly native species that were displaced by this person on a cultures a being planted. but that's just one part of the story. the national park is a protected area that cannot be used to produce tinder anymore, but only around 3 percent of all forest and germany is protected. the rest is governed by public or private forest, as, for example, to produce timber. and we'll probably be using more of it since would can be a very sustainable and renewable building. material managed and grown by forest as like back in so ring. yeah. they need to take a different approach to the bunk beetles. the trees are checked for interest ation . regularly, once and interest stations found latrice,
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i'm ok then that are top down and removed as soon as possible to hold the spread of the beetle. leaving behind vast areas of prematurely felled trees. to prevent something like this from happening again, the approach here is to not only bent on one tree, but on a variety of trees by auction, it's like with a stock or you're diversify your portfolio to minimize risk. that's what we're trying to do with the mix for us to buy it. how this is an equal fish to be a scientist trying to identify the forest of the future? here are some of the candidates. first of the oh jeez, beach, oak and sycamore trees are adapted to low elevations. they can survive with less water because they root systems are depo seconds of a new come out and select the douglas the native to north america. douglas fast can also handle more heat and droughts. these are currently seen as good candidates,
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but if we continue to heat up the planet, we will need to mix in some wild cods to find out which ones may be suitable with the syringe and forestry has been conducting and now of a 10 year old experiment. in the driest region of the forest was, is often it's more or less because in a mixed for us to have to deal with various species of trees or supporting each have different risks and costs its price here all the way through to the marketing of the word or other product locked in for quotes with the home phone. but from our point of view, it's more is that it's because it reduces the rent and just go over it with you. you might have more expensive, smaller yield and budget for the forest owner. it carries less risk, the go, he's a quote hosted thoughts based explained by visits on this type of forestry, as well as the national parks approach shows where a lot of international forests could be heading. if you guys are also a chance to adapting life change or speed up by 4th version. yeah. which would
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otherwise take much more time. it's best to get off of onto playing. does this, it's all good in terms of addressing the climate crisis and it's good for resiliency as well as bio diversity. ok and see if i would, even though it might look tragic a new better forest is already starting to grow. one that is more resilient than what we created before. and one that will hopefully weather and adapt to whatever is going to happen in the coming decade. some of them might not be the cheapest addition on the market, but it's a popular and relatively healthy option. and comes in a variety of bones conventional, some of the phones of come into fire and using feed containing soil and due to pa, science that costs painful diseases and the fish in no way one fish farm has taken an alternative approach. the fjords of norway,
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a popular tourist destination and now home to a new kind of salmon farm committed to doing things differently. the country supplies over half of global production to my smear hold is ceo of pack for the future, which operates the farm. whenever he can, he leaves his office to head out along the fjords to be with his team of labor, the trying to find a new way of in solving farming. and our goal is to reach the, the utopia of having the world's most sustainable sound with farming it's. and we live in the working pro actively to mitigate the problems before they become problems like c lice, for instance. so we don't have any c lie, sir, and also with passages and 1st i seem to face parasites are a major problem for conventional farms, especially c lice, tiny crustaceans that can even cause mass die off. some of them there ost and they can also be transmitted to wild atlantic salmon whose stocks have plummeted by more
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than 50 percent since the 1980s. environmental list say it's a major problem. let's see donna's is a very bad thing for the sidewalk in the times, but it's also it's a problem for the light side of them and the wind. so i'm in this area, is that the land think so i'm, i'm, and now is tracking or, and the increase in numbers or letters or amount that though another issue is that the fund fish often escaped through gaps in the net. if they then meet with the wild atlantic, salmon, they're off spring struggle, just survive. leading to a further decline in the ocean, going population and excrement from the aquaculture facility often pollutes the surrounding waters. that in turn promotes the spread of skin diseases and the fish . so what makes this 5 different? the key lies and its construction instead of being surrounded by nets,
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the fish pins are enveloped in plastic. or we have a, a protecting bowl like clothes and bag and up the faces in. and we feel that bag with water from the, from the depth. so it's a fresh water from the depth. without sea lies. the aquaculture pins are made of an impermeable plastic outer skin or bag and to prevent the fond fish from escaping and endangering the wild atlantic salmon. that double barrier also keeps license other power sites out of the pin the pins, get a fresh supply of water piped in from the cold steps of the ocean. when there are no sea lies excrement from the fishes collected by a filter under each pen. and then pumped to the surface it's dried and then
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used by bio gas plants to generate green electricity or by farmers as fertilizer. where the only 7 farm or that i know that don't time. so you lice and when the 2 steps to just drive inside of a good environment, 3 of have very good growth. so you have very low mortality, and very good quality of the fish that to harvest. in 2023, the average farm semen mortality rate across norway was 17 percent. with infectious diseases, i'm major factor q. the rate is just 4 percent. thanks to a very low level of disease transmission. the boss shows us the filter systems that are installed under the pens in the assembly hall pump units are being built, which will then be welded together. the company has a patent on the high tech filters. this is alkalis,
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so this actually regulates how everything is close in the ocean and is also where we collect the floods. and if you have any database we think collected here it take you to store and, and use it for another value for the future. so it's, it's making a profit and that it salmon is no more expensive than what sold by conventional producers. a re purposing. the filtered sludge also helps in keeping costs down the for now, at least the semen industry is skeptical of the innovative young ceo will his approach bring a lasting, sustainable change to semen. farming to him, i smell holt is optimistic and is already hatching plans for an expansion. the
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you see a lot more that 2 vehicles on the roads, roads these days, even though you can barely hear them. and while regular models create not just noise, but also app pollution tvs have no exhaust, although they don't totally green the heat. the test, the c o 2 from that production plus the environmental impact of battery minerals mining. so how about just recycling old batteries? this little part of good was once an electric. com. that's where you can, ford went through all that the know you have all the good stuff, cobalt, nickel, manganese and lift him in here. and the idea is to turn these raw materials into a new venture where you get oh, there are several ways, but this is one of them. first, the battery arrives at a recycling facility and gets discharged after it's taken upon the battery, then gets shredded. the liquid parts get expected and different methods of grinding
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and sifting leafy with these based materials, metals from the battery, housing, plastic, and the bits of aluminum and copper bunk. the stuff that everybody is after is this black mass. this contains all the valuable materials, like lithium coal, both nickel and manganese, but also graphite. that's why it's black. and today we're going to get all of them out of them. but that's not my job, but there's, this is new, come to a doctor for research. i add to close todd and his chemical lab technician might, could come in at the university as part of a larger research group that is trying to figure out how to do this on a larger scale. and by the way, this is what the end goal of this process is supposed to look like. same metal foil, ready to go into a battery again. so while we're doing now with a black box. so now we're going into the leasing operation with the blame us. so we have reading all the value of
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a metal we have on the blackness into the solution. the metal way off today is called to bring that out. mike is using sulfuric acid as a solvent, pretty nasty stuff. if it would touch i was given. it would instantly costs a v, a buttons. we're using a process called hydro metallurgical recycling. it's a low temperature process, but only use a small amounts of energy compared to other vets where your 2nd method, this entire process is perfect for getting rid of impurities that are still in the black moss. after all, the shredding and sifting mainly aluminium and copper as a 2nd step, the black boss also gets filtered. lucas, as throughout the entire recycling process, they are able to remove 95 percent of impurities. on a scale, a little bit bigger. the whole process looks like this massive parts of solving, in which black moss is processed. our black mazda is now
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edits to a nother sullivan that will help bring out the cobalt in this chemical cocktail. and it's pretty colorful from greenish to dark. blue is like so blue, it almost looks like ink. it could like bright with that. and it's this dark blue pod actually that the coal both sticks to to get a higher concentration of coal. both we need to do another round of this. this time we're going from blue to red. now that's the color change. so now the cobalt is in the dock of red as pa spot to be able to use the metal in new batteries. you, of course, need to get us out of the solvents. you can do that by using it up as you would at, in the scale or a little quick kind of small up like this, with yet another solvent. really can see the crystals a lots here they even accumulate. so that's a bottom like how much cobalt is that now from the back mass isn't here,
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will actually leave of this technique. we are able to recover more than 99 percent of the cold. what are the biggest challenges in ops getting these process is what makes it so hot? you know, of course you, it, we also run the run through the problem that and let scale we are only doing those invest, explain, and so step by step, very common studies, but in industry you want to get the money. so you have the, you are having a continuous process and handling a continuous process of, of all the impurities and all the process steps and small things you need to consider. it's kind of challenging. that's what other researches say as well recovering more than 90 percent of materials is possible. but this requires optimal conditions, which you don't always find in the real world. if the recovery rates drop, the business case becomes even more difficult. one or 2 to 2 in the market is, is a stress to everybody minds who cycles by now the prices are quite new, which is a challenge for everybody who wants to reduce investment. basically is price is
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a high recyclers make more money, but the question is, how much consulting firm mackenzie expects recyclers to make around $800.00 to $1600.00 per ton of battery. it's really about how much do you pay when you acquire the materials. this is holmes eric melons. he's been analyzing the ends of lock. that's remarket for yes. so if you get material for free and then you process it, then sell it to market price, you able to use it and make a lot of money. you will most probably make more than many mining operations, but if the site does what need to pay for the batteries? the economics can shake. this could mean recycling is more expensive than just mining new materials. and this isn't the only issue for commercial size ponds. another challenge, other materials used in the battery itself. it could be a whole bunch of combinations, lithium, ion phosphate, lithium, manganese oxide,
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lithium, the cold, cold mini um, or lithium, the cold manganese cold. and the last one even comes in different compositions. 121-216-2222 or 821 and 21. it's the wild west out there when it comes to bed 3, manufacturing, which makes it more difficult to build, tailored commercial tough. the bottom line is in the real world, recycling is much, much harder then on pay for another problem for recycling, batteries doesn't have anything to do with the recycling process itself. but with the missing feedstock, electric car batteries last longer than previously thought and off. so that they get used for all kinds of other things, like storing renewable energy, which means that does money batteries to be recycled or on a left scale reciting. batteries is no issue at all. 9 to 9 percent cobalt because
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it's insane. but on a commercial scale, not so much info that for example, well, it's only going to do with the home to buy products. so there's some questions that still needs to be answered. never found down and exhausted. you do work day after day. fun out is more common than many people think on can even affect the younger generation res. hope even if it's main starting from scratch, we met a young woman who managed to make it come back. it's been that even of my stuff with the some of the things that increased as being able to make great money from a 6 hour work day left for me, but also having another leisure time to enjoy life. in spite of them, the mom, she was 14, what you started a business degree and 16 when she found it,
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her 1st company, when i got i'm no no guy and i started my 2nd company and i was 18 and had to college degrees by the age of 20, but then i had about enough time to come. but remarkably, she founded her 3rd company at age 22. mr. white as the type of guy does this from being able to study and set up a company at that age was really liberating. funds would not have the privilege of knowing early on what i wanted to do, and i just couldn't wait to get started to keep the response. i'm from wells her 1st company flopped. she was able to sell the 2nd edit decent profit and then developed an app for lifelong learning and in company training the semester to ensure the engine or shift for names, creating something out of nothing and solving problems for people in scale and all the entities and having that huge freedoms,
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