you know, the world's top ex border but in a series of setbacks, the cold in pandemic, the war and ukraine can the energy crisis have left the countries industry, 100 clinic, custom pressure kind of gets back on track. also on the show, green hydrogen po, for hype, solar power via cable, a viable undertaking, plus making it big in germany. germany once the economic powerhouse of europe, known for quality and innovation. but today the made in germany images of taking a, beating the death certificate log in at which the gym and economy is in a tough position. and we're in another year for section one. so why is this happening?

exclusive of the biggest problem right now is the gloomy move to move. the economy is 80 percent psychology here. so what now we're in the trust right now and things are slowly looking at no cost. one in 4 jobs here depends on exports, which is a vulnerability when it comes to the economy. small next oh, so lagging and that's the key to the gym and economy. almost 40 or 45 percent of our economic outputs are export on at the moment, demand is logging on and i'll be, i'm after a peek. in 2022 german exports dropped in 2023 and then recovered slightly in 2024. the end compared to global economic growth, germany is floundering in the 3rd quarter of 2024, g d p in the us to buy 2.8 percent. germany's economy is stagnating.

francis recovery and springs economy grew by 0.8 percent the way. yeah. and that's a quite some time we've seen the structural conditions grow increasingly difficult to deal with. things like a shortage of skilled labor system i collected all crumbling infrastructure too much bianca. see here mix what we're seeing is that the economic outlook is the peasant mystic economic outlook host, which is being accompanied by increasing structural problems. accidents will prevent companies. germany's mid sized companies have a key role to play. mid sized companies make up about 90 percent of businesses here and employed 55 percent of the working population. germany doesn't only have large industry or mid sized companies form the backbone of our system to do it. so there's a heart beat,

the pulse that measures how healthy and robust the german economy is, and whether it can meet the challenges that lie ahead. again, seen as in the mid sized sector here is known for innovation flexibility and it's focus on customer needs. but it's also facing many challenges. mid sized companies are looking for solutions to stay competitive. for example, when it comes to finding skilled labor practice companies can do a lot in this respect, making themselves attractive. as in the highest offering company benefits which can help attract more work as the most skilled workers in the new product. you took the test on to the team. i live with the name of this as a whole. companies need to reflect on ways they can future proof that operations become more innovative about that facing increasingly tough competition, not especially from asian american companies. suffice for example with respect to the digitalization of processes, and that includes both big industry on small or mid sized service enterprises. i

mean, labor shortages are crumbling, infrastructure, and complicated bureaucracy are increasingly affecting economic competitiveness. germany's image on the international stage is also dented. so is the country at an impasse before is to georgia, the german economy is still the biggest driver and the european economy. it was, this was a typo tanker that has a hard time changing course that needs to speed up in order to recover the reputation. it had 10 years ago to one of the zoom into the company b as equal to. yeah. so with some t reforms and a fresh wave of optimism, germany should be able to get its economy coming again. another factor affecting economic performance is illness. have you ever been unfit

to work? not a big deal if you're in germany, except the frequency of people taking sick leave is increasing. a cause for concern . how big is germany? trains canceled. government offices shut? no school classes and deserted building sites. for too many people off sick and to few people to fill in in germany. sick leave is on the rise in 2023 employees average 15 days off due to illness. without all those sick leave, the german economy is good and have shrunk by 0.3 percent last year. instead of grown by point 5 percent according to an employer's association. labor organizations argue that rising, sickly is due to people's feeling over worked and under valued. others blame

misguided incentives like being able to just phone in for a sick note. overly lenient doctors and paid sickly in the us were paid sickly visit mandatory far fewer people call in and fit to work. the germany a sick note doesn't require you to stay home. you can go to work if you're not contagious. and then there or the baker's says the alon must, she wants to check up on workers who call in sick. a better idea is to improve the work environment so that everyone feels value. that's been a recipe for success in many companies. this was a good idea, winning ourselves off, fossil fuels and switching to hydrogen by daily of the green variety. could the idea of a future powered by hydrogen become reality? or is it destined to remain just a dream?

the green hydrogen made out of renewable energy. it's been touted as a pillar of the energy transition and germany plants to invest billions into green hydrogen. but how realistic are these ambitious plans? entire fleets of hydrogen powered trains are running the 1st hydrogen filling stations have already been dismantled. there weren't enough customers. the there are only a handful of hydrogen power train still in operation here. and the diesel powered bosses are slower and often one late officer for the farm, especially the best was in service, but often it was not running on schedule, especially in the morning when we're headed to school. so my sister home in dc.

yeah. this year has been very, very difficult when it comes to best and trained services. the trains basically aren't running and when they do, they're constantly out of service. and you know, mas haul, and buddha is interested in you. all's fellows. even though the hydrogen trains are brand new, the crucial fuel cells often malfunction the, the trains that are unreliable are taken out of service. the transportation companies are annoyed that old diesel locomotives and bosses have to be brought back into service. and that there aren't enough spare parts for the hydrogen trains other than just taking the initial technical problems began shortly after the 1st batch of trains were brought into service for bloom on the tongue. we had a problem with the tank systems which often end up leaking events described in the slide. the 2nd problem involved the fuel cells. so, but this is,

that's what we're dealing with right now from the startups for it. and it's also been a variety of problems with the software, the email, including with water leaks, which then affected the electrical components and then to place. and then we actually want it done like the ocean bow tie live until now of stone, the manufacturer for the additional cost. the french company makes the hydrogen trains in germany and the problem late and fuel cells come from canada despite the bumping ride. aust, i'm wants to stick with hydrogen technology. that's the one thing stop. of course we didn't expect the loans to go the way it did with facing challenges. so we have to find solutions for the very beginning. and how many of those were going to incorporate a new generation of fuel cells in the vehicle sort of thing. then we're confident that when that happens, the vehicle is well off a stable and sustainable service. that'd be on the heights each of the frequencies . this tractor also use of fuel cells to run on hydrogen. it's make are sent plants

to replace the diesel engines in its farm vehicles and machinery with hydrogen motors. the company preferred not to comment on camera, but did say that the technology still needs to be optimized as a skin that has opened, generally speaking, when policy goes all into promote a technology. so there's, there's always a chance that projects that aren't quite ready and will go into service like the, it's in place and gives us that it's too soon to say that a technology like fuel cells has no future dvd plant of 10 the that would be a mistake to how it, how strengths still work to be done stacked, but there's a lot of potential about for you to put in charge of. the apex company is one example of how a large scale hydrogen economy might work. in this pilot, plant green electricity is used to generate hydrogen. they've been optimizing the technology for years. and so far they haven't had any major breakdown to hydrogen they produce is used in a fleet of 57 local service bosses. but this hydrogen production only pays off for

the company with state subsidies and inexpensive electricity yeah, transformation process will take at least another 10 or 15 years until we have a prop on market ready hydrogen economy. yeah, we're starting to ramp up right now. so the, getting the next 2 to 3 years, we'll see you set up the necessary capacities who will supply the hydrogen that will make this transformation possible with an industry. so me and kind of it's possible that all this is little more than a pipe dream. for the plan to work, hydrogen would need to be transported through a pipeline network to the major consumers, like the steel and segment industries. existing pipelines could be incorporated into the supply network, which would extend over more than 9000 kilometers. europe still has a technological edge, but there's a risk that cheaper hydrogen technology from china could compete with europe as

happened with photo voltaic and wind energy technology. that an interview will have a window of 3 years in which year will be competitive when it comes to generating and using green hydrogen. and then we'll be overtaken by other industrial nations. for me, i'm not going to spend the whole establishing hydrogen as an alternative source. of energy will be harder than anticipated, but one thing is clear. european countries have their work cut out for them. the. once upon a time, europe had an idea for an alternative source of energy, importing solar power harvested in north africa. the aptly named project. desert tech. sadly that dream faded with over ambitious scheduling and expectations if major investors backing out. transporting solar power over long distances is a daunting challenge. in

2018, straightening entrepreneur david griffin, started a company based on a crazy idea of what if you could generate a lot of solar power in northern australia, which has some of the strongest sunshine in the world. instead of to single point which consumes pates of energy purpose and especially from fossil fuels. and it's pretty much no space to renewables that make sense. right. and it turns out he's not the 1st person to have this type of idea. there are a lot of places around the world with a few people and lots of sun and wind that we need to start using the power cities in countries far away. because even the idea is to create a kind of global, super, allowing us to shift loads of renewable energy from where it's abundant to where it's needed. and all you really need is a lot of very, very long cables. but something went wrong with girlfriends idea. so let's look into what it was, what it means for this and vicious vision of a well, the sharing it's clean electricity. so rather than only consuming that clean energy

within the borders of the country producing it, it might make a lot more sense to spread it around. to share this energy, it needs to go through something cold and into connect up, which is a high voltage cable that can transfer power one way, or in some cases back and forth between the 2 locations. if you have an interconnect, uh you can have cleaner and cheap apollo coming from a neighboring system, which the neighboring system was have benefits from this was that elizabeth kronos and energy and climate data analyst. this is a really big deal at this stage of the energy transition, advocates for the shift away from fossil fuels like the international energy agency . so you were getting pretty good at bringing renewable energy sources online fast . but if we could move that and make tricity to where it needs to be, all that new clean energy becomes less useful. there are some groups trying to figure out how we could connect the grids of every country on us. the idea would be to increase regional connections, enough to eventually create a super create a global network of interconnect is that would let us send electricity to wherever it needs to go. and there's very few better places that australia,

when it comes to sol, solved cables and straddling in company that was phones with the purpose of taking as fairly, as a bonded wind and solar resource i scale. so out of pocket to pick region that's georgia escape, i remember david griffin, the guy from the beginning until last year, she says on the executive leadership team of his company center. and the scale of his company's plan was almost beyond belief. the idea was to build a 20 gigawatt solar farm on a massive stretch of land and australia. northern territory, that's almost 6 times more capacity than the current biggest solar farm in the world, according to right. it's. and then that solar farm which state into a battery system that's walden, 13 times, big than today's biggest to send the energy from the solar farm and batteries abroad. the company would lay 3 submarine cables along the 4300 kilometer out from top and through engineers, motors to single meaning they would need more than 12000 kilometers of high voltage cables. today's long list, existing route is around 750 kilometers. and well,

making oldest solar panels and all those batteries would be hard getting all that cable turned out to be even hot. and that's because many of these cable manufacturers, which are mostly based in europe, already too busy supplying major pain market. so to get those thousands of kilometers of cable, some cable decided to just make it themselves. they announced plans to build their own manufacturing site in tasmania. but making these cables is not easy. and once they get all that cable, so i have to actually figure out where to put it the. busy submarine cable routes have to avoid any odyssey volcanoes or areas. mold prone to sub marino's quakes that go to avoid shipping. routes with anchors or fishing equipment could damage the cables and the big trenches that would leave the cable floating. all of that, not being manufacturing and signing takes a lot of money. the straight to age of housing is estimated to cost the equivalent of $23000000000.00 us dollars. and people familiar with projects like these say the final cost will likely be a lot more. but despite the scale of these problems,

some people were starting to make progress. in 2019 the company secured the backing of 2 of us traders biggest 1000000000 their investors, michael, kevin brooks, and andrew, far. but in january of 2023 old at progress started to crumble. according to media reports, one of those big investors forest decided he wasn't happy with the direction of the project and clashed with the other investor of what the company should be doing instead. and soon, this argument calls into question one of the most fundamental tots of fund cable, the cable itself importing a big chunk of your energy from one place rather than a producing that yourself makes you dependent on that source to better or what's the countries like single small islands nation surrounded by much beacon data. it's scary. well, what is this huge cables going through another countries territory was, was done as well sabotaged. how safe could single feel about switching everything over to a brand new source of energy. if it had to rely on

a potentially less reliable supply, it's not just as a result of the disruption from the supply side to the results, but actually made a motion as active as sorry. the sky was a problem with energy security. this is robin. this is robin law, according to media reports trying to get around all these concerns made 1st question, how viable the cable part of son cable would be. he decided it'd be better to use all that solar power in a completely different way by turning it into green hydrogen and ammonia. this is another way of moving renewable energy around. that's getting a lot of attention right now, that you convert that clean electricity into fuel that you can ship anywhere in the world without the hassle of building a cable to connect those places. these 2 competing visions of what to do with sun cables, plants, solar farms came to a head in january 2023. according to media reports, when the company missed 2 of its big milestones, to get the approvals from single pole and intonation needed to start laying these cables far as decided that the cable strategy wasn't going to work. if they wanted

his money that have to switch everything over to green hydrogen and ammonia something the other investor can brooks didn't agree with. the future of the project was in doubt. and without the support of both investors, the company collapsed. but that wasn't the end of the story. eventually, kevin brooks output for us to take ownership of sun cables in 2023 in eastern the age of housing project continues, but the drama did take its toll. the new plan is to start delivering power in the early 20 thirty's, but only to dollars the capital of a strategies northern territory. the connection to single port is supposed to come a few years after that. if that comes at all, because the company still has to solve the same problems. so convincing all the different players involved from governments to investors, to suppliers. but this idea which has never been done before this scale work and be safe. so what does some cable story mean for the vision of a global secret is putting down a cable between 2 countries. such a struggle connecting the entire world seems pretty far off,

but it's also not science fiction. so now a global net look does remain a distant dream. but if you think all the geopolitical tensions and power games involved to make it impossible, just consider there's another global network that connects every country, you know, excusing summer and cables. you're using it right now to watch this video. the incident, transporting electricity around the globe is a bit different than translating data. of course, internet cables are cheaper and the telecommunication systems that are routed in had been around for much longer. but it can be done the german economy needs talented young people from abroad for eager to get things done, career wise. well, also bringing customs and cultural experiences from back home with them. today we feature a young woman from indonesia who got her started and i teach before turning her passion for furniture into a business. i

arrive on march 2016. and my 1st impression was germany was really cold. the people are sold fall and they speak really like quickly as long as you 1st and understand what they say at 1st. the reason behind why i want to go look for is like i want to know the people are from the other culture. when i went to germany, i don't know the culture yet. i don't know what the land. yep. i don't even speak the language. yeah. so uh, through the deputation pro fast. i learned a lot and that's awful shape me. i am why i'm today. rebecca less contingent nisha after finishing high school. she did a bachelor's and business administration in germany. after that, she became a manager in the i t sector and founded the luxury company job about i started slide carrier as a marketing in the i. p industry seems to 1090 a story,

leon, virginia. pon pon, it's a silver house and mainly our clients are the to be clients and we are offering a software solution, a platform solution mainly for the energy industry. the gather with my theme in the sales, we are preparing online and offline campaigns. we are preparing the social media from fence and we also preparing events in indonesia, you have to fully respect your bosses. so you have the strong of humor cold. but here in germany, you tend to have more flatter here or tea. so if you want to fix on it, and if you want to ask the question, you can go directly to your boss and then discuss it with them. and i feel like here in germany, you have more room to, to experiments alongside her job in the i t industry. rebecca founded the high

end furniture company java bell. i asked hot chocolate val, it's because my grandpa started, he's with working business in 9th, in his asking fees in sort of out that it's a small city in the central java. and it was a to stream of my grandpa to sell. the furniture was fine, and my grandpa possibly on 2022, but he threw me leave on until now. this one of our clients are what says apartments and restaurants. the enter your architect school is design. the furniture based on the client needs. we produce save, and we ship it by containers. so through c frame to germany, what's really make in a nation furniture special is it's not a mass for production. so we did it best on the fly and it's,

it's not about the furniture only, but also does try to shift the freshman shape the hadn't made at all or furniture are made from our people back indonesia in terms of sustainability. i'm also really proud that lot of indonesian productions currently be really trying to minimize the ways the waste from the for his, our production. we can use it to create a complete new products such as new verse such as state corporation. and we'll find middle of to take part the declaration. the most important thing to the successful in germany is 1st with down to the officers. that's the 1st. and the 2nd is to law fuel shop. because on me, when killed last something you do, new generating innovation, new generating fresh ideas. i am now around 12000

kilometers away from home. so i do feel home sick this the year in germany. i also have like, good friends with colleges i working in a very, very good environment. so at least it also makes me happy. i mean, how would this my 2nd whole slow so if i'm in indonesia, i also feel homesickness with the file from his homework. so i am home in indonesia and in home, but that's it for this edition of me looking at germany's economic wireless and hope and vicious energy transition plans and the challenges involved in transporting solar power over seriously long distance is fine till next time the to the points, strong opinions, clear positions, international perspective,

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