Lockdown has allowed renewals to flourish they also make more business sense theyre increasingly cheaper than fossil fuels like coal which is turning out to be one of the most expensive sources of Power Green Energy for the future a topic all made the use business short. Coles biggest threat now is economics but theres still a heap of it used in the making of steel the sector is one of the most Energy Intensive around the production methods of how the change since the 1st Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries usually ion or is smelted in Blast Furnaces where the impurities are removed and carbon is added by burning coal that lets off huge amounts of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere the changes in the air and youre a of steel making is here without the high emissions. Heavy industry doesnt get much heavier than this. Steel production but come the mat will be manufactured using green alex received at this battery they say they can. Seal production is responsible for around 5 percent of global c o 2 emissions but here at deutsche it you know started back and theyve slashed their output of the Greenhouse Gas and this is how. With conventional Steel Production where coal is burnt in a Blast Furnace c o 2 emissions are 3 or 4 times higher than with steel recycling using an electric arc furnace. Conventional Steel Production involves the combination of iron ore and coking coal which takes place in the Blast Furnace when melted the or produces war pig iron. The yarn is then melted in the converter together with scrap metal to produce crude steel the finished product it seems to make such a steel girders burning hard cold limits 2000 kilos of c o 2 per ton of steel produced. That figure is far lower with green steel because it involves recycling here scrap steel is fed into an electric arc furnace the electricity comes 100 percent from when you pull sources such as wind farms you know to emissions amount to just 110. 00 kilos per tonne of steel. The scrap steel comes in all shapes and sizes from waste incineration plants and dealers primarily from the surrounding or valley region. And this is where its recycled the specific mix of different kinds of use steel is collected in huge scrapbook adds. They are then conveyed to the melting hole which measures some 40 meters tall. Everything here is super sized because one of the biggest electric arc furnace is in the world is about to get to work. Howard by alec tricity with a load of 61110000 volts generating a loss of. These graphite electrodes measuring several meters long built up a temperature of 1800 degrees celsius in the furnace will soon see and hear the resulting spectacle. Over in the control room kevin vis house has. Just added a special mixture of scrap steel and this is all we should be seeing a change in the furnace from the sound. Should be getting a bit quieter. Misfired it took 10 years of experience to muster the job. In the biggest danger is always a failure in the cooling of the electric arc works with a huge amount of energy at temperatures of up to 3 and a half 1000 degrees of molten metal as he said to 17 or 1800 degrees so if the cooling fails the furnace will melt itself and water and steel are not compatible. When the melting process is over he retracts the electrodes. His immediate boss is in charge of both the melting of the Steel Production process. The steel thats released or top from the furnace before being processed. What we have here is a special design of furnace this pretty rad so its exciting coming here every day and seeing the crew through material being tended to precede. The factory has high voltage power lines due to the scale involved they supply the entire complex with 350000000 kilowatt hours of energy a year making Energy Efficiency a priority. Using scrap we already have low Energy Consumption and c o 2 emissions. Now producing green steel is a further improvement. In the future well be making with Green Electricity. And the plants power consumption is enormous joy to egypt. Vaca needs as much alick christie as the entire time to vote seen in the background its population 100000 people. The continuous constant plans produces green steel and someone dies in different grades from bullet proof steel for limousines to a special bryson for medical implants. The sort of the Electric Company we have 90 to 100 minutes between tappings which means 13 or 14 batches per day and yet thats most of. Which in turn translates into around 1500. 00 tons of steel produced every day a product thats marketed under the green steel label due to the lower end pushed a studio to. A new smelting procedure every time kevin but its house prepares for a new batch its something of an event some must use a big motivation when i took on the job its pretty special. Then its time for the fireworks. Despite being produced with eco Friendly Energy the company says its green steel does not cost much more than steel made with coal. To grown a virus pandemic has put a damper on the mood in the industry but the pressure to lower c o 2 emissions is high and this deal could soon be used to fashion a truly green automobile. In 30 years europe wants to become the 1st climate neutral consulate but that wont save the environment if other big polluters dont join the initiative south africas hunger for electricity is only growing at the same time that the nation struggles through an economically damaging Energy Crisis its been dragging on since 2007 widespread rolling blackouts a power utility riddled with mismanagement and corruption but turning out the lights on the country has spocks lots of ideas. One year ago the Protea Heights Academy school in cape town went solar without paying for the installation the system was financed by a crowd funding platform the idea small investors buy panels and earn an income from selling the electricity to the school that is using them. So far abraham cambridges crowd funding platform has equipped over 30 schools and companies within 5 years they plan to have more than 200. 00 additional systems installed. So if you want to put money in solar panels from environmental reason put them in south africa youre offsetting 8. 00 times the Carbon Emissions with a sort of an oh heres africa than it would do in germany for example and youre getting twice as much electricity out of it so it just makes more sense to put a solar panel where you create more social environmental and economic impact. And for the school to solar energy is cheaper than power from the grid with investments as little as 4 year as some exchange is also open to people with less income in fact many of the pupils at protea heights invested in the solar cells themselves when the horn is the schools former principal she says that aside from Clean Cheap Energy the project also brings another benefit so wed always that yeah kids were so excited aliveness to actually get involved an intrapreneur old thing and actually buy still sells it sells it see how the money would increase or decrease or whatever i mean it was it created a huge interest in near real excitement and that is also what you want to teach our children for the future isnt to premier all skills. Innovative models to fund and produce green energy are urgently needed in south africa the government aims to produce a quarter of all electricity from renewables by 2030. The ocean and play a role. Simon weinbergs company developed an underwater pump powered by the oceans waves it turned salt water into Drinking Water fall at the same time producing a constant source of energy that could power up to 10 european households all year round. There. Is always energy. If we said were looking at a whole range of waves that come from different areas theres a lot of stuff thats produced locally by the local winds but theres an enormous amount of energy thats come from storms that could be causes of miles away. From the wave pump is time to a boy that lets the arm with each wave the Lever Movement pressure rises water to purify it and generate electricity at the same time for years the prototype unit was tested under water and is now back in the workshop for some maintenance. So far the unit has proven that the concept works the team says despite the challenges. The challenges with the ocean is that its an expensive system to develop when there is very little funding available so this is why its taken so long to get where it has today with sufficient funding the company could start to build larger pumps next year that would feed into the power grid the sun exchange crowd funding platform meanwhile has just received an additional 3000000. 00 euros from one major investor powering on south africas green energy transition. Heres a more clever guys who were acting early enough to be head of the game a decade ago. The founders of b. Box met university and decided to bring Solar Systems to remote parts of africa today the london startup provides Hardware Software sales and Customer Services for Green Electricity on the continent concepts was ditching National Grid for locally sourced solar energy networked via the internet. Supplying africa with solar energy via their headquarters in london might seem like an ambitious goal but its one that be banks is determined to make a reality for startups founders monsoor home a union Christopher Baker bryan want to end Global Energy poverty. And describe ourselves as a next Generation Utility Company that means were providing a lot more than just electricity to our souls but things like Internet Access and access to Water Services and cooking gas for example all of those basic modern services that we take for granted here in the western world that our households and all our customers on the ground are really striving to achieve locally. That you memetic college over 10 years ago together with their other partner the beginnings of the venture were modest as a students generally organization the budding engineers vision to bring Solar Systems to remote areas and to link them up digitally humanity get some funding from our own university from other sponsors as well and we were able to that summer provide electricity to some 60 households in a rural part of the rwanda and i think but at times in the 1st system got installed our 1st customer that was really apply and that was very transformative in my own personal life because everything is theory until that point we saw this real major Global Challenge of billions of people who lacked access to reliable electric power and we may be naive back then felt that we could do something to make an impact. And the engineering students efforts soon bore fruit they developed the b. Box a digital platform that connects off grid Solar Systems to a central server the system can for example detect technical problems ahead of time and to correct them the boxes are currently provided to 10 countries mostly in africa the company also supplies the corresponding solar panels and has so far served over a 1000000 customers. People already spend a lot of money and energy to spending money on terrorists handles batteries for radios very bad diesel generator to spending tens of dollars a month on this sort of stuff so we take that money that theyre already spending on energy and giving them Something Better and you know if you included in the c. E. O. s are in close contact with their Branch Offices in africa but they want to keep their h. Q. In london. Thats where they find the programmers and engineers they need. Its also where the money comes from. The boxes yet to make any profit but theyve just raised 50000000. 00 u. S. Dollars for international investors. One of the key things to be able to achieve and millions hundreds of millions of people with access to electricity is to bring in partnerships the likes of yes we joined within the last few years in office in togo and mitsubishi invested in b books in the middle of 2019. Partnerships help us achieve the scale that we need to to achieve over the next few years in order to make a real Significant Impact the concept could be put to work in europe as well according to the be box founders but battery prices would need to go down for that to happen still their main goal remains to serve developing countries. My dream would be. At least a spark one of many sparks traits that transformation that entire nations need to lift themselves out of poverty if even if we create. A universe of electrification in one country i would be extremely happy and theres so much more to do there are still around 900000000 people worldwide who have no access to electricity. Forests the lungs of our planet they are an effective way of hoovering up pollution and according to scientists also help slow the global average temperature rise trees Carbon Dioxide out of the atmosphere and look at a way in their trunks and soil collectively they also protect biodiversity and provide Natural Resources we continue to chop them down at an alarming rate. For centuries our species says have a close relationship with the forest forests are more than a backdrop for fairytales they provide us with food fresh air and clean water and played key roles in biodiversity and climate their essential habitats that are now under threat. Every single 2nd a wooded area the size of a football field is destroyed. And almost always we are the destroyer owners there are no monetary reasons why humans would want to protect wooded areas on the contrary when turned into Raw Materials forests can bring in big profits. Wood products are growing in popularity whether its for paper furniture or chopsticks in some regions of the world it takes up to 7 trees a year per person to meet demand. Many of these Wood Products come from illegal sources up to 17 percent of the global trade and is illegal in brazil that number jumps to 80 percent an estimated 19 percent of you timber imports come from illegal logging and thats not all humanity also destroys forests to create farmland for the production of other bomb materials like palm oil soybeans sugar cane or beef billions of dollars worth of those products are bought and sold every day and how many of the companies that depend on these Raw Materials are trying to participate in whats called the Green Economy which seeks to ease humanitys impact on nature only around 13 percent. If humanity needs more farmland or space for new cities the forest always has to give way. As our numbers grow the forests shrink. Worldwide 40 percent of them have already been cut. With no thought for how much we owe them theyve given us life saving medicines paper corks. And one of humanitys favorites chocolate. Have it you didnt know this if you flew into germany youve noticed the highly industrialized and biggest economy in europe is actually quite green a 3rd of the nation is covered in forests thats a lot of work for a forest ranger my colleague all of you get decided to put himself in the shoes or boots of a forest for the day oh hi im the new guy here. At forest. Tucker you go high kuga ready to go into the woods not like that get your boots on ok ok boss. This is now. Much more momentum. The lines im slowly but surely creak as turning into a force that some 1st like. The risks here are tripping over a root being attacked by boards and being hit by a tree theyre a threat to everyone in the far east i dont think most people according to you know that of the true could be. Come out of you shouldnt be able to see through a healthy beach tree so this goes into good even though you might think im not everything so green oh nice. This was not you doing about it all good god not at all you dont recover even if its completely dead not a single leaf left the bar has burst open and. Whats this is that you know this is dust from the beatles who drink their way inside they already inside their worth and insects that are already inside the tree if you look a little higher you can see the drill holes where they are out in the old and the indents from a woodpecker looking for larvae. What do we do with this guy name it has to be failed. This one to. This one definitely not spelling most. How long do these trees usually live a little book on the beech tree can live up to 400 years or. 400 years and these trees are over 150 years old. So i guess its getting dangerous ill go in alone. Good idea. Id rather not go and. Go. Come come come. Across as i miss being a forest theres nothing im sure but im a bit scared of these bourse they huge the main looks aggressive and they are all on high alert because of the babies the mom is really looking up to here they are now. Look at the guys tusks super shop. Yes they ought to get also. Hes driving them on. The boss was. Very good. Oh. Its all about the swing you need proper momentum this isnt a name fight its an act so swing swaying swing its very. Very. Well. I have a blister no one cares. So were cutting what. And i think i dont pretty good doing it. Jokes aside it is tiring imagine having to cut enough woods to heat your home for the winter. Because i get blisters so easily yes and i know heres one. Thats probably work. Ive wanted to be a forester since i was in 1st grade so its always been my dream and i found my dream job im living it. What about the next generation of forest. Luckily the Career Prospects are really good and its always nice to have grown up with it wouldnt be much food and im really proud that my daughter is studying forestry and maybe someday shell become a forester herself would feel like a fossil of the back to me in my outfit i think i cut quite a good figure ive proven my woodcutting credentials would you say ive got what it takes to be a force. If it is youve got the image down running around here in that outfit in the hes temperature can be quite a strain as a forester you have to roam around a lot in the forest you seem to be up to that you were a pretty quick learner i describe you as an internal with potential. Being a forest road its a. Much for ever. With this i dont. It ruins your house stuff. Off the tru t. V. Dan thanks for joining us today ill see you next time. A country where children often learn to shoot for taking. My. Country where people worship guns. 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