to keep it perfectly balanced. why has nobody made an electric hydrofoil flying ferry before? i think the main reason is that it s freaking hard. spencer laughs. over 70 countries have commitments to net zero targets. some are enshrined in law. others are goals laid out in policy. large companies have also made net zero pledges. but how do we know that they re being met? well, there s one company that might have the answer. satellites have been capturing images from space for decades. this is a radar one here. you ve also got optical images like these. any cloud cover around and you won t see what s going on beneath. and you need daylight for most of these. but satellite vu has a different plan. for them, it s all about thermal imaging. engines at full power. and liftoff of transporter a. go falcon, go transporter. its first satellite, hotsat 1, was launched injune on a spacex rocket flying out of california. it started sending back high resolution images to earth, its therma
strong superglue binding together the fibreglass. usually this is incredibly tough to break down. but not here. we change something in the backbone of the chemistry. this has actually gone through our recycling process. we just turn it around. here, you can see all the different glass layers placed through in the production of the blade and how they are separating from the blade. to do that, it needs to be soaked in a big bath of mild acetic acid. after a few hours at 80 celsius, then you get the result you see here. so it s just like vinegar in a supermarket? exactly just like you would make pickles or descale your coffee pot. i can actually smell that. there is a scent of vinegar coming from the blade. this won t tackle today s waste, but when these blades retire, the materials could go into making other things.
and while this one looks like any other, it can be recycled. it all comes down to a resin called epoxy, which acts like a strong superglue binding together the fibreglass. usually this is incredibly tough to break down. but not here. we change something in the backbone of the chemistry. this has actually gone through our recycling process. we just turn it around. here, you can see all the different glass hairs placed through in the production of the blade and how they are separating from the blade. to do that, it needs to be soaked in a big bath of mild acetic acid. after a few hours at 80 celsius, then you get the result you see here. so it s just like vinegar in a supermarket? exactly just like you would make pickles or descale your coffee pot. i can actually smell that. there is a scent of vinegar coming from the blade. this won t tackle
exactly like you would make pickles or descale your coffee pot. i can actually smell that. there is a scent of vinegar coming from the blade. this won t tackle today s waste, but when these blades retire, the materials could go into making other things. we could be furniture, suitcases, you can use it for surfboard manufacture,etc. so, in general, consumer goods. but not new turbines? not as it is right now, but i m never going to say never. so far, only a small number have been number have been installed, but they will soon be used for bigger offshore projects here in europe. at this research lab, scientists are taking a different approach. this was a part of a wind turbine that was decommissioned. basically put the chip there and you add a catalyst. they have discovered a chemical process that gently breaks
the production of the blade and how they are separating from the blade. to do that, it needs to be soaked in a big bath of mild acetic acid. after a few hours at 80 celsius, you get the result you see here. so it s just like vinegar in a supermarket? exactly. exactly like you would make pickles or descale your coffee pot. i can actually smell that. there is a scent of vinegar coming from the blade. this won t tackle today s waste, but when these blades retire, the materials could go into making other things. we could be furniture, suitcases, you can use it for surfboard manufacture, etc. so general consumer goods. but not new turbines? not as it is right now, but i m never going to say never. and that s it for our round up of some of the latest sustainability stories. hope you ve enjoyed them. from sweden and me and my electric ferry,