every day, i'm very happy i the statewide, i'm very happy. the next stop, the space rockets are launching into orbit to build the infrastructure of the future. thousands of satellites, circle the earth in endless 4 bits. transmitting data m signals at speeds that are out of this world. and the super rich, their space bound to round trips included with rockets being caught in mid air. but that's costly and uses energy. we urgently need here on earth

also, and today's show batteries were supposed to power the future. but so far they've failed to deliver using gravity to store energy, an attractive idea, but doesn't really work. and the trials and triumphs of an indonesian women rising to the top as a manager in germany. lots of smoke tension and tiers all things to to college friends. a year ago their spanish startup po, the space caused quite a stir. the successful test flight of their small rocket set a new benchmark for europe's growing private space sector. why it was an incredible experience of them that we showed the world we could do with things that seemed to be a radically impossible sounds good and dirty at unimposing as the heart of private

space, exploration beads, and l. j. you're out of the country. better known for its palm trees, then it's rockets. the firms founders met in college. right. almost getting used to take the val. we're space keep almost meaning when we saw a companies like space x and blue origin, emerging in the us just thought we were in college building model rocket, a property i know by the name of the new smyrna, going from models to a real rock. it was a long and rocky road. the founders raised their 1st funds from friends, neighbors, and even local retailers. in l. j, salt, private and state investors initially turn them down, get also play out that they said it was possible that we like to set up here. we got to do is too costly, too difficult if you have any others and tried and failed the, but we chose to take the risk and keep going on their persistence eventually impressed the larger investors. the founders poured significant funds into developing their own engine. but 4 years ago it exploded during testing initial

minimum, which is you didn't really damaged our trust and credibility with shareholders in the team. so that i'm saying that we faced the bigger winter and had to cut staff, which is the worst thing that can happen to an entrepreneur. and they'll be able, going to weigh about how our own best. how do you the team didn't give up improving the engine until the next test was flawless. if at all their relief was palpable. in 2023, they prepared for the me or one launch. it kept being delayed till october when things came together with its micro launcher, that can carry 100 kilograms. p of the space is high. fine plants took off at last . that's what less than this, you know, says not just launch app, but if you look at the following the precisely program and have it proved to the world that we can achieve anything can almost come under that. that will give us

with new found confidence. they punch the mural one program, tipping bigger. now the focus is on the me or a 5, a rocket with a cargo capacity of up to $600.00 kilos. set to launch in a year. over 250 people are working on it. po, the space is co founder says they're the european leader, some of them of the others. we offer the most reliable service in the industry today as somebody in other words, we're the most reliable company in the industry. it's happening that 1st successful launch was no accident a, but we've chose the most advanced and dependable technologies available so often. but the bigger question remains, are private space companies just expensive experiments or do they serve a real purpose? i think it's somebody needing some significant changes well by a governance i don't see how long ago we're relying 100 percent all day on the guess even don't in the me on a visa of you a bit, the opening of 10, those 2 new commerce to test and loom and sometimes same with them to simple them

and bring a much more data. suffice to find the is the, you know, it's about independence. the european space agency is now working with p. o. the space, while the spanish government has advocated over 40000000 euros from you recovery funds for the me, your a 5 project bought at the noise, did well, institutional support slate, a fairly small role. it was the necessary lever asked to secure a private investor back in the industry pretty well. and their emissions don't stop their po, the space plants to send even heavier payloads into orbit. in the coming years. by 2028, their rockets will no longer land in water, but vertically on solid ground, just like space ex, making their business model more profitable. they even want to send astronaut into space. the lean se project is designed to carry up to 5 crew members. a

crazy idea is long blonde. you know, it sends me sound crazy line, but they're actually low risk because we're progressing step by step. so what is, how are you? i'm of them. i didn't get them in from your a one to me, your and next and beyond. the final chapter will be a crude launch. uh, a lot of people under what are some of them, but we're talking about a 10 to 15 year timeline. it's not tomorrow. there's a, this isn't just an internal vision, but it's also a response to marketing demand and we'll look into just that. you know, i'm going to turn these dreams into reality po, the space has to deliver 1st up to me or a 5 expect to, to lift off by late 2025. if the launch fails, they have the funds for a 2nd attempt. if they succeed, they say orders with 600000000 euros are all ready waiting. the

lists come back down to earth. cars with combustion engines are still polluting our air. electric cars are meant to be the solution. batteries, the driving force of modern mobility. at the hype is fading, and battery production is stalling. major manufacturers are pulling out of factories, they were building. could this be the end of the road for ease batteries, so to the new goals of our time, they were central for electric vehicles as europe pains to scale up the production . but this year a seen major setbacks take northern germany, for example. swedish battery maker. north bolt has delayed its german project and declared insolvency in the us. can cause us louden a. c. c halted construction and pause plans for a multi 1000000000 euro battery factory last summer.

and in eastern germany, chinese manufacturer, as volt, positive to 1000000000 euro investment in the production plant earlier this year. why is europe's battery cell production stalling and can it's still succeed? the political goal is clear. europe once electric cars, starting in 2035 combustion engine vehicles can no longer be produced or sold in the u. germany is home to 5 battery, so factories for ease. but poland leads to charging battery production in the u with a total output of 70 gigawatt hours, followed by hungry and sweet. in a total of living, european countries produced battery sales with production capacity expected to increase 10 fold by 2030. to meet political targets. everything needs to move fast . football need battery sales made in germany and made in europe your. so what's

the hold up reason number one, technical problems. in the summer of 2024 north fault began construction in northern germany. the swedish company already runs 2 factories back home. this one was planned to cost 4500000000 euro, but now the project is on hold production issues in sweden are to blame and now high strep, right. so that's, yeah, that's also an additional costs. so um they have also problems to, to finance the production lines. scrap means the batteries are faulty. as a result, the firm can fulfill its contracts on time. that like bmw, partial owner of north vault to cancel a 2000000000 euro border for a battery sales. another example, battery maker, a, c c already produces

e v batteries in france, backed by investors like mercedes in store lantus. it also planned a new factory in kaiser's allowed. now that project is on hold to key challenges for europe's battery industry, fix the lack of experience in operating the specialized equipment as well as raw material procurement has to go for industry, which is different. uh, type of industries can be damaged, street, manufacturer selling effect truck. oh yeah, i'm 6. take the battery. said the reason number to the these are a hard sell. your chinese is that cost far less than european models are flooding the you market. so european automakers are struggling to sell gars in germany. their sales dropped in 2024 compared to the previous year. across europe,

e b sales have also declined year on year but for sure. also, b minus i may or sure costs the decision proved false and responded for the bottom. meanwhile, agent is facing an over production of the batteries which are much cheaper than those made in europe. we asked the price pressure at that point because of over capacity in, in asian reason number 3, high production costs. labor costs are a major factor, and europe's battery industry also lacks skilled workers. on top of that energy costs in germany and many other e u member states are much higher than in other countries. in germany, for example, energy prices are 3 or 4 times higher than in the us or china. what are the

consequences? germany's auto industry is already questioning whether they use 2035, then on internal combustion engines is realistic. when you want to put him in something where something is not helpful and will not, many people buy electric cars. in conclusion, europe's battery production is facing massive delays. the good old combustion engine might stick around well after 2035. despite the challenges, pioneers and battery technology aren't giving up. research into electric drives is still going strong. and another exciting field has opened up gravity. batteries,

they can store excess energy for later use, but well they really delivers or is this just another ambitious plan that won't pan out? let's take a look at how these better ways, what, when we produce more electricity, then we need to like in the middle of the day, when this lots of solar energy, we can use that energy to lift a heavy weight. it just hangs around until we low it again, the motor becomes a generator and feeds electricity back into the grid. that's where an novel, new energy storage technology comes to play. they didn't find announcing that it is investing a $110000000.00. why are we not spending trillions right now to be building this stuff? this technology could be a good way to cut c o 2 emissions. we need a lot of renewable energy and places to store it. the international energy agency says more than $25000.00 gig of it. oh us by 24. that's enough to power

countries like power rock by or to new york for an entire year. and it's $2.00 times more storage than we have today. but those numbers don't fully capture the challenge with more and more renewable energy, we need even more reliable, short and long term storage. that could be 6 hours, 6 days, 6 weeks or even months. like i said earlier, pump storage hydropower is great for this. it's been around for more than a century and still makes up over 95 percent of our storage capacity. you pump water up windows and, and it is up less and let it flow down. who turbines when energy is needed. notice anything? yep, that's gravity. edward tom tied was tried and tested, but doesn't work just any. well, it requires lots of construction work and disrupts natural habitats, and you need to and a lot of water. it's not easy to scale it but,

but the gravity principle is we basically mirror that same process, but instead of water for one of our solutions, we use lots. that's real. that the coney co founder and ceo of can edgy volt, which currently is the biggest gravity energy storage. develop the arrows essentially, depending on the size of the system can be up to thousands of them. systems, 2nd 2020 and into all the this prototype in switzerland, 6 crane stick to concrete blocks up to a height of 70 meters. the prototype proves that the concept works, but it also received criticism such as that the structure didn't comply with building codes or might not really stand extreme weather. so in that you bought came up with this gravity, better rebuilding thousands of blocks are listed or lowered and then stalled horizontally as seen here. the 1st battery of that kind went into operation in rudolf and chung, so province in china, in may of this year. it's taller than the great perimeter of design stuff. more than 3 and a half 1000 blocks weighing $25.00 tons each. they were made on site from excavated,

sorry about the company says it could use waste materials such as cold as the old wind turbine plates. and it's 100 megawatt hour so that you can think that it went to powering about $35000.00 homes. but only for 2 to 3 hours. the company plans to bid fall give it o as of gravity, batteries for china or 40 times this one. now the smaller storage facility is suppose to go online in snider, texas. this year, implants on the way in southern africa to gravity. batteries couldn't see a re lift a weight and keep it up for 60 years. then what are some might not replacing, but the weights in store energy would remain in place. the biggest drawback is the cost that's having a strikes a senior research associate at bloomberg any f energy storage team. they recently published a study comparing several long duration energy storage solutions,

including gravity storage. and what we found is that gravity, batteries has a higher average cost and higher cost range from all the other long duration technologies. one of the reasons that they have a very high cost is because we have very low energy density. so you need sort of larger infrastructure in order to get to the same in order to store the same energy as you would need for lithium ion battery. for example. the gravity battery interview don't still have the same amount of energy as this lithium ion battery. but the gravity better, we need some much more space bidding materials. so the initial cost is higher. it also loses out in other ways. storage operators earn the money by discharging the energy and selling it for more than they paid chemical storage, like lithium, i intend to react and milliseconds to market needs. which last for a lot of quick profit taking the gravity better, we mechanically lift and lowest weight, which takes time and limits,

profit options. so gravity, battery capacity is more expensive. right now. it's doubled the cost of lifting mind technology. but develop as like energy box one to convince investors to think long term because they have such a long life time. so 5060 years, which is considerably higher compared to machine miles. they may claim that levelized cost of storage over the duration of the project life time is, is lower. if the high startup costs of gravity, batteries even out over time, partly due to the low cost of maintenance that might make them competitive in the long run. let's go on the ground. we looked at a $1500.00 underground coal mines and from these coal mines we, we estimate the capacity of 70 to or what our storage

$7.00 to $10.00 of the hours of energy is huge. it's what the entire world needs in a day, and it's 700000 times the capacity of this. and that's just the old coal mine chests, which are particularly deep abandoned to methyl minds, could also work. the idea is to have a small number of very heavy weights moving up and down the empty shaft installation costs for this kind of gravity. energy storage could be fairly low. on the ground mines have the road access, they have transmission lines into the mind. so you can use that energy could then be stored when it's really cheap and used when it's much more expensive, which could make it a profitable solution. whether it's 4 hours a month, we'd only know if this system works as planned. once it's been built. they are also some even bold designs for efficient gravity batteries, like sinking a giant piston into the ground and raising and lowering it with the waltz underneath. the idea has been around for years, but hasn't reached the pilot stage yet. another idea involves weights on wagons,

on res, going up and down and mountain. that idea is over 10 years old, but hasn't gone anywhere yet. and i do vote is planning an updated version which looks a bit like a ski lift with weights. they say this system could be more efficient than the stand alone cavity batteries. they're making. now. gravity batteries might be installed and skyscrapers energy wall plants do. just that in collaboration with an engineering company, gravity, and it just started to spill in its infancy that can't compete with the scale and low cost of lithium ion storage. but it doesn't have to, since gravity storage is intended for long term storage of 6 hours or more. so gravity, batteries might become one of many options to store energy long term. but you probably won't be seeing many of these popping up near you any time soon. germany needs more skilled workers and wants to attract highly trained

professionals from abroad, even more urgently. it needs more women in leadership roles. a goal that still feels far off. meet a woman who excels on both fronts and indeed issue of my her left indonesia. when she was 21. she succeeded as a marketing manager in germany. this is how she did it. i arrived in germany at the 23rd september 98 and i was very excited. i just very happy that i had the chance to go abroad and i just said to myself, i didn't make the best auto currently i work in a german company cards. britta, uh global there when it comes to drinking, what the frustration technology. i work as the marketing manager. and of course uh

we tried to sell our sustainable what the solution to our target groups 105 south if of course, to uh, put our defensive solution to the right lights and to showcase i'm a product and what's a technology we have and what the dispenser, so i made a lot of of videos and also organized video shoots with some production house, also incorporation with the brand team effort task and try to show the best side of all products. i come from maybe the family, not too rich, but in my family education is always an important aspect. so my parents always try to a fine and the best education that we can get. that was the biggest challenge at the beginning is of course the language and also to learn the tumor language was

very fixtures, but i realize that this language factor is very crucial to also be able to communicate with people. so our social life based on communication . so if you don't, my said well then it would be a bit more difficult. i think people expect you to, um yeah. first to be integrated in the companies to understand the company culture . so to, to really know what is important as the, as a company. so the mission and the vision of the companies, it's in parking because that's how you should like doing your work. and then i think it's important also to be physical. so you really need to make yourself physically. but if you do something meaningful, if you do something good,

then let people know. and what i like most in living in germany is that everything is regulated. maybe some people complain some was a lot of loss and lot of regulation, but somehow, um yeah i, i can see the sense of it. i can see why it makes sense to have flow and visualization of functioning. one is very important because it actually makes your life easier. hi, is it because on teacher gives calling every workshops to introduce indonesian food to germany. indonesian cuisine isn't widely known in germany, but her workshops are incredibly popular. i don't see like i have a home sickness because basically this is my home. now my family is in mesa, but this is my last day and my oldest family. yeah. and my, my parents and my brother and i missed them a lot,

but it doesn't make nice. it is so homesick that i'm very sad because i can talk with them anytime i want. i'm very happy with my life and i'm very grateful that i know that i'm in this situation right now, but it was also a lot of work. it was not happening over night. it was the re size of years of resilience, years of hardware years of um, also pain and learning phase that i have to, to go through. so success or happiness doesn't happen over night and i can never expect something good come instantly. yeah, i did a lot for of what i give so far the that's it from main where we've journey through the vastness of space and explored

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