Transcripts For ALJAZ Earthrise Change Of Power 20220729 :

For your hero, lou, a john hall in london with the top store is on al jazeera, the u. S. Secretary of state and rushes, foreign minister of spoken for the 1st time since russia invaded ukraine in february. In the phone call, Anthony Blinkin says he told sir gay law brought the world, expects russia to honor its commitment to let grange shipments safely, leave ukrainian ports. Lab rob said sanctions on russia were partly to blame for the global food crisis. And that weapon supplies to you, cried, but prolonging the wall. Lincoln also warned rusher of consequences if it tries to annex more regions of ukraine. I also make clear to farmers lab ross that in light of recent statements coming from the kremlin about their plans to proceed with the further annexation of ukrainian territory. Indeed, Foreign Ministers onwards without replacing democratically elected ukrainian government, as well as being part of their ongoing plans. Those plans would never be sent in the world will not recognize anticipations. We will impose additional giving costs on russia if it moves forward with its plants. Ukraine says its ready to dispatch the 1st shipments of grain from its black sea port president , bloody mazar lensky says hes waiting for the go ahead from you and from the u. N. And turkey on the battlefield. Both ukraine and russia accuse each other of striking a prison in the dawn bass. At least 40 people were killed. Most of the prisoners were from the as or catalin which defended the city of merrier paul before he fell to russia. The court in the u. S. Has decided that civil lawsuits brought against libyan warlord holly for half to can be heard in federal court. After whos a us citizen is accused of war crimes and extra duty judicial killings during libyas civil war. The ruling means live in civilians have the right to bring cases against them in u. S. Courts for damages and alleged war crimes. And the world banks, as it wont give lanka Financial Assistance until it puts the can amik reforms in place. The country has been mud in a deep financial crisis since 2019 the bank says it needs to address the route structural causes that lead to the crisis. Well, those are the top stories stay with us. Earth rise explores Carbon Neutral strategies in norway and the Orkney Islands. Thats coming up next ah ah, for in the middle of the Biggest Energy transition, st. Austrian revolution, the covey. 19 panoramic is accelerating our move away from fossil fuels as price tags of renewables, particularly solar come down. It is now possible to actually imagine a Carbon Neutral world to run on clean energy. But there is still a long way to go with Climate Change as a care what the markets think. The science will, thats still the same. We must have global Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2030. If were to have any hope of reaching that 0 by 2050, and avoiding the worst effects of Global Warming for the change while it is happening, needs to happen quicker in this program will be look at 2 of the solutions that have a part to play in that transformation on the, on the islands in the u. K. Site as the working with one a clean energy is holy, grails, green, hydrogen, and in norway, a Carbon Neutral data center is using the force of nature to power our digital lives. The Global Demand for energy is increasing, but burning fossil fuels is polluting and its warming the planet with devastating impact for life on earth. While Renewable Energy from wind, sun, and sea cheaper than ever. With intermittent, its difficult to store. But a few of the future is emerging, which could prove fundamental to di, carbonized in the global economy. Ive come to the Orkney Islands of the north coast of the u. K, where a network of scientists, researchers approving that a missing link in the next Renewable Energy revolution might be found in the simplest and most abundant element. Hydrogen, the universe is about 73 percent hydrogen, mainly occurring as gas, but on earth, most hydrogen is contained in water is the h in h to go after its generated from water. It can be used as a fuel depos cause buses and even spacecraft. But in order to extract it from water, you need electricity. When thats produced using fossil fuels, it contributes to Greenhouse Gas emissions. In orkney, known as the energy islands, scientists have discovered how to produce Green Hydrogen using renewable power, generated by wind farms and tidal turbines. It could be a game changer, a meeting a del liddy deal, whos a Hydrogen Project manager and was brought up on orkney, just letting apparel and we have the fence of self sufficient fee. We need to do thanks for our fail to practice. We are in that really gives us resilience as an island mean we come to shop and say, one of orkney is 13 inhabited islands to see how they produce hydrogen. Its kind of a juxtaposition of small island for quite a High Tech Energy project. This turbine is owned by local residents and produces more energy than the local grid can handle. So the excess power is used in hydrogen production. Im no scientists, but i could see on that that the same. It says them explosive compress gas. And what is actually happening behind this, this fits whats going on in these boxes. So if a working Energy Production fight, which is why were founding our site, whats the connection between winded hydrogen . We have the wind turbine going round here to b. M. When it reaches a 1000 meters per 2nd, we switch that Energy Production over to produce hydrogen. These metal boxes contain the key piece of machinery and electrolyzer that generates hydrogen gas. And electric current flows through the electrolyzer causing water to break down into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen is then collected and compressed, so the electrolyzer just takes normal drinking or use of energy from the wind turbine. It splits the h 2 o 4 and to hydrogen and oxygen. We capture the hydrogen for use for energy and oxygen at the moment. I just read it up here so your re diverting . Yes. That wind energy into hydro dot right . Yeah. As storing and storing high its transported by trailer and used all over orkney, some in domestic heating but mostly in commercial vehicles and ferries. In the trailers, the hydrogen stored under pressure at a 184. 00 times its original density. Thats a lot of energy. I meeting with james ferguson, a specialist and hydrogen storage. The highly inflammable gas is locked away in competence on the key site. Oh wow. Oh gosh, so one of the big advantages of hydrogen is that is a kind of option for Seasonal Energy storage. And thats when we want to store a lot of energy over months. So we know that in the u. K. During the winter, its very blue. Its very windy if we go to a wind turbine based Energy System. Were going to have a lot more generated in the winter than we need. And so we can capture that and store it from the form of hydrogen, and then keep it until the summer when we dont have any wind blowing and, but we still using energy, but you make was. So how is hydrogen used as a fuel where . Well, james has a rather knotty way of demonstrating this with a toy car that looks about what thats about 20, you know what . He shows me how to produce hydrogen with many electrolytes. So we just wait a moment, were going to generate some hydrogen. Were going to get build up an electric current passing through the water forms hydrogen bubble. Now, some gas storage here that we didnt have before. So now im going to take my cable around here. And you can see now that the gases are flowing into the fuel cell and then that is going to allow us to generate electricity, which means the cargo that is absolutely better cause the principal to pose the fuel cell in james is toy car is the same when scaled up to power a fleet fight council ban on the island. Well, completely silent. Completely silent. Wow. You can sometimes hear the compressor from the hydrogen when its when it kicks in. It, you know, here we, well, thats all you here. David hannon is working with the council to expand its use of hydrogen technology. So for a long time, were talking about electric vehicles as being the future of, of green transportation. What do you get a hydrogen heard vehicle that you wouldnt get of an electric vehicle . This is also a battery runs off the battery, but then the hydrogen is yours to be extend the range on it. So if youre either traveling long distances, you can potentially double range and is another advantage. Its quick to fuel with electric battery, you might pick from top and r t, it are the charger battery, whereas this is pretty much instantaneous, you know, talking couple of minutes normally wed expect to see an exhaust pick that the back of eventually this. Yeah. And you can see theres no source here and the same as any electric vehicle. Obviously weve got hydrogen, but then the sort of emissions of our water paper is here yet. Right . Wow. Alright, really, thank you so much with with me. Its great to hear house seems to be growing all the time. And theres that awareness of the importance of this kind of network or the ecology of energy when you live in an archipelago. Another important form of transport piece is very nice fe Company Operates 74 different connections and there are more than 20000 sailings each year with the fuel used in shipping, badly polluting. I did it for david, hidden who works with the fay, company, Clean Hydrogen is part of the plan to clean up the operation and they all happens below deck. Okay. I have no idea what we get into it, but here we go. Oh wow. Oh the ship, what we looking at him these so it just contains like 20 the fuel. What are you using . The hydrogen, hydrogen. Its doing that system will run on a regular engine light steering Safety Systems and the the lights and the thing. And so when in the future, hydrogen will be used to drive all ships operations including propulsion, stepping within the stopping all be on the small scale chipping steps that already established fans and ferries powered by Green Hydrogen just part of the picture in orkney, Pioneering Research into how the fuel could play a global role in transport and beyond is happening here at the Orkney Research and innovation campus. One of the most important projects is in a b ation. In a normal year, nearly 14000000. 00 lights worldwide result and heavy c o 2 emissions search for an alternative fuel. His virgin, one company collaborating with scientists in orkney is 0 avia. I contact director searcy kids a live whose excited about the 1st 15 minute long Hydrogen Test flight. It was a combination of almost 3 years of research and that frankly, it was the it was live for delivering the baby. The 14 was the sorry of them the so excited at the same time. I know that you guys are planning to fly here with one of your hydrogen po, playing ah, the final flight down our high fire one project will be taking place from port you there or can you, hes famous for its the hydrogen. Can you give us a time scale of when you think that we will see passenger planes in the sky running on hydrogen . Of course that technology is in its infancy, but i personally believe that in about 15 to 20 years, there will be a lot of debts why im using being hydrogen. And this is truly exciting. So if we can arise to the challenges of our Energy Economy or future transportation needs, it means embracing a range of solutions. And i think what the do here in orkney is proving that Green Hydrogen can be part of the answer. Green hydrogen is beginning to take home. Its a key part of the eas plans to come to wells. First Carbon Neutral constant by 2050 a new projects have been developed in chile, saudi arabia, united states. Yes, there is still a way to go before Green Hydrogen is proven to be scalable and cost effective, but it is gaining traction. And its one of a number of Current Trends that harold, a weld free. A fossil fuels is definitely a new power system and a new Energy System emerging out of our eyes. Whether we look at Power Generation in distribution or whether we look at transport. There is no doubt that we are in the middle of the most consequential transition in the energy space that we have seen in the 100 years. It is a very exciting moment. Its also a nerve wracking moment because we know that if we dont get to half emissions by 2030, it will be too late to do anything substantial about Climate Change. This is our last window of opportunity to bend the curve of emissions and get on to a different track. And Green Society would be a society that has a 100 Percent Clean Energy. That energy would be decentralized, cheap, ubiquitous. We would be able to provide power to every single home on this planet. We currently have 800000000 people who do not have access to power, meaning theyre in abject poverty. By moving over to a 100 Percent Clean Energy decentralized, we can make energy ubiquitous, and we can bring those work under the line of poverty over that line. A Green Society would be an economy that has smart grids that has storage available to all the Renewable Energy generation. Sources would also be society in which there is efficient and clean transport. Passenger vehicles would offer transport as a service, not being a possession of any individual and heavy transport would be using clean fuels. Finally, cities would be clean wyatt because we would have put the internal Combustion Engine into them and cities would be organized into smaller communities, around food and energy at the beginning of the most decisive decade in the history of humankind. It behooves all of us. To understand that this has been challenging and will continue to be challenging, but we can do that. We can address Climate Change in a timely fashion. We can avert the worst disasters of Climate Change, and in so doing, we can bring a much better quality of life for all citizens of this planet. And certainly for the ecosystems upon which we depend, ah, people across the planet spending an increasing amount of time on line from work meetings and catching up with friends to movie streaming and shopping. We are now more reliant than ever on platforms which generates and store data. But this data doesnt just vanish into thin air. It comes at a very real environmental cost. Everything we do online passes through data centers which consume huge amounts of entity and emit nearly as much c o 2 as the airline industry. Im in no way to see how one center is harnessing the energy of these fields to stole our Digital Information without a heavy carbon footprint. This is a famous tourist attraction and photo hotspot poke is stolen in no way. It draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. Im curious to find out what people know about the data, all these photos generate. So when you take a selfie, it lands somewhere, have you ever imagine where that could be . I think the 1st time i would imagine is my, when youre asking, i havent been thinking about it. No, i have no idea. I send it to google, i guess in the cloud, in the cloud. And you know what the cloud is, a bit of a Storage Place ah, like myself, most people only have vague ideas of where all our data has kept. Ive come to university of savannah to meet an expert on data storage and find out where our self. Hes end up the photo is so ruby saw in the memory of their phone. And then if youll share the photo or you want to back up the photo into the cloud, it will end up using data center remotely could be in europe. It could be also in a remote sign across the atlantic at those they probably accumulated in those data center. And those wallkill are forced us to have a big a big data center. So burn, bear our problem for sustainability or how long or how much data we have to store them. In recent years, many of us have been moving into the digital realm and even more so under the curve at 19 pandemic her. If you hear from the city, so live our online habits, take a heavy toll on the environment. A typical search which passes through data centers processing and storing information requires as much entity as illuminating as 60 what light gold for 17 seconds. That doesnt sound like much until you realize google alone process is 3500000000 searches a day. Around one percent of electricity globally is consumed by data centers, many of which provide remote Storage Facilities or what is also known as the cloud is estimated that intent is, is our data network grows. Almost 7 percent of all electricity will be used just to power and cool, huge servers preserving everything from billions of family photos to big data on space travel. So where and how you store your data can make all the difference. And no way is ahead of the game on this, since its powered nearly a 100 percent by Renewable Energy, most of which comes from hydro power. Im on my way to lancaster and island nears devona. Ive heard they have an old military storage, but instead of storing to dose and wall hits, they now stole billions of bites of information from all over the world. The underground Anthony Blinkin<\/a> says he told sir gay law brought the world, expects russia to honor its commitment to let grange shipments safely, leave ukrainian ports. Lab rob said sanctions on russia were partly to blame for the global food crisis. And that weapon supplies to you, cried, but prolonging the wall. Lincoln also warned rusher of consequences if it tries to annex more regions of ukraine. I also make clear to farmers lab ross that in light of recent statements coming from the kremlin about their plans to proceed with the further annexation of ukrainian territory. Indeed, Foreign Ministers<\/a> onwards without replacing democratically elected ukrainian government, as well as being part of their ongoing plans. Those plans would never be sent in the world will not recognize anticipations. We will impose additional giving costs on russia if it moves forward with its plants. Ukraine says its ready to dispatch the 1st shipments of grain from its black sea port president , bloody mazar lensky says hes waiting for the go ahead from you and from the u. N. And turkey on the battlefield. Both ukraine and russia accuse each other of striking a prison in the dawn bass. At least 40 people were killed. Most of the prisoners were from the as or catalin which defended the city of merrier paul before he fell to russia. The court in the u. S. Has decided that civil lawsuits brought against libyan warlord holly for half to can be heard in federal court. After whos a us citizen is accused of war crimes and extra duty judicial killings during libyas civil war. The ruling means live in civilians have the right to bring cases against them in u. S. Courts for damages and alleged war crimes. And the world banks, as it wont give lanka Financial Assistance<\/a> until it puts the can amik reforms in place. The country has been mud in a deep financial crisis since 2019 the bank says it needs to address the route structural causes that lead to the crisis. Well, those are the top stories stay with us. Earth rise explores Carbon Neutral<\/a> strategies in norway and the Orkney Islands<\/a>. Thats coming up next ah ah, for in the middle of the Biggest Energy<\/a> transition, st. Austrian revolution, the covey. 19 panoramic is accelerating our move away from fossil fuels as price tags of renewables, particularly solar come down. It is now possible to actually imagine a Carbon Neutral<\/a> world to run on clean energy. But there is still a long way to go with Climate Change<\/a> as a care what the markets think. The science will, thats still the same. We must have global Greenhouse Gas<\/a> emissions by 2030. If were to have any hope of reaching that 0 by 2050, and avoiding the worst effects of Global Warming<\/a> for the change while it is happening, needs to happen quicker in this program will be look at 2 of the solutions that have a part to play in that transformation on the, on the islands in the u. K. Site as the working with one a clean energy is holy, grails, green, hydrogen, and in norway, a Carbon Neutral<\/a> data center is using the force of nature to power our digital lives. The Global Demand<\/a> for energy is increasing, but burning fossil fuels is polluting and its warming the planet with devastating impact for life on earth. While Renewable Energy<\/a> from wind, sun, and sea cheaper than ever. With intermittent, its difficult to store. But a few of the future is emerging, which could prove fundamental to di, carbonized in the global economy. Ive come to the Orkney Islands<\/a> of the north coast of the u. K, where a network of scientists, researchers approving that a missing link in the next Renewable Energy<\/a> revolution might be found in the simplest and most abundant element. Hydrogen, the universe is about 73 percent hydrogen, mainly occurring as gas, but on earth, most hydrogen is contained in water is the h in h to go after its generated from water. It can be used as a fuel depos cause buses and even spacecraft. But in order to extract it from water, you need electricity. When thats produced using fossil fuels, it contributes to Greenhouse Gas<\/a> emissions. In orkney, known as the energy islands, scientists have discovered how to produce Green Hydrogen<\/a> using renewable power, generated by wind farms and tidal turbines. It could be a game changer, a meeting a del liddy deal, whos a Hydrogen Project<\/a> manager and was brought up on orkney, just letting apparel and we have the fence of self sufficient fee. We need to do thanks for our fail to practice. We are in that really gives us resilience as an island mean we come to shop and say, one of orkney is 13 inhabited islands to see how they produce hydrogen. Its kind of a juxtaposition of small island for quite a High Tech Energy<\/a> project. This turbine is owned by local residents and produces more energy than the local grid can handle. So the excess power is used in hydrogen production. Im no scientists, but i could see on that that the same. It says them explosive compress gas. And what is actually happening behind this, this fits whats going on in these boxes. So if a working Energy Production<\/a> fight, which is why were founding our site, whats the connection between winded hydrogen . We have the wind turbine going round here to b. M. When it reaches a 1000 meters per 2nd, we switch that Energy Production<\/a> over to produce hydrogen. These metal boxes contain the key piece of machinery and electrolyzer that generates hydrogen gas. And electric current flows through the electrolyzer causing water to break down into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen is then collected and compressed, so the electrolyzer just takes normal drinking or use of energy from the wind turbine. It splits the h 2 o 4 and to hydrogen and oxygen. We capture the hydrogen for use for energy and oxygen at the moment. I just read it up here so your re diverting . Yes. That wind energy into hydro dot right . Yeah. As storing and storing high its transported by trailer and used all over orkney, some in domestic heating but mostly in commercial vehicles and ferries. In the trailers, the hydrogen stored under pressure at a 184. 00 times its original density. Thats a lot of energy. I meeting with james ferguson, a specialist and hydrogen storage. The highly inflammable gas is locked away in competence on the key site. Oh wow. Oh gosh, so one of the big advantages of hydrogen is that is a kind of option for Seasonal Energy<\/a> storage. And thats when we want to store a lot of energy over months. So we know that in the u. K. During the winter, its very blue. Its very windy if we go to a wind turbine based Energy System<\/a>. Were going to have a lot more generated in the winter than we need. And so we can capture that and store it from the form of hydrogen, and then keep it until the summer when we dont have any wind blowing and, but we still using energy, but you make was. So how is hydrogen used as a fuel where . Well, james has a rather knotty way of demonstrating this with a toy car that looks about what thats about 20, you know what . He shows me how to produce hydrogen with many electrolytes. So we just wait a moment, were going to generate some hydrogen. Were going to get build up an electric current passing through the water forms hydrogen bubble. Now, some gas storage here that we didnt have before. So now im going to take my cable around here. And you can see now that the gases are flowing into the fuel cell and then that is going to allow us to generate electricity, which means the cargo that is absolutely better cause the principal to pose the fuel cell in james is toy car is the same when scaled up to power a fleet fight council ban on the island. Well, completely silent. Completely silent. Wow. You can sometimes hear the compressor from the hydrogen when its when it kicks in. It, you know, here we, well, thats all you here. David hannon is working with the council to expand its use of hydrogen technology. So for a long time, were talking about electric vehicles as being the future of, of green transportation. What do you get a hydrogen heard vehicle that you wouldnt get of an electric vehicle . This is also a battery runs off the battery, but then the hydrogen is yours to be extend the range on it. So if youre either traveling long distances, you can potentially double range and is another advantage. Its quick to fuel with electric battery, you might pick from top and r t, it are the charger battery, whereas this is pretty much instantaneous, you know, talking couple of minutes normally wed expect to see an exhaust pick that the back of eventually this. Yeah. And you can see theres no source here and the same as any electric vehicle. Obviously weve got hydrogen, but then the sort of emissions of our water paper is here yet. Right . Wow. Alright, really, thank you so much with with me. Its great to hear house seems to be growing all the time. And theres that awareness of the importance of this kind of network or the ecology of energy when you live in an archipelago. Another important form of transport piece is very nice fe Company Operates<\/a> 74 different connections and there are more than 20000 sailings each year with the fuel used in shipping, badly polluting. I did it for david, hidden who works with the fay, company, Clean Hydrogen<\/a> is part of the plan to clean up the operation and they all happens below deck. Okay. I have no idea what we get into it, but here we go. Oh wow. Oh the ship, what we looking at him these so it just contains like 20 the fuel. What are you using . The hydrogen, hydrogen. Its doing that system will run on a regular engine light steering Safety Systems<\/a> and the the lights and the thing. And so when in the future, hydrogen will be used to drive all ships operations including propulsion, stepping within the stopping all be on the small scale chipping steps that already established fans and ferries powered by Green Hydrogen<\/a> just part of the picture in orkney, Pioneering Research<\/a> into how the fuel could play a global role in transport and beyond is happening here at the Orkney Research<\/a> and innovation campus. One of the most important projects is in a b ation. In a normal year, nearly 14000000. 00 lights worldwide result and heavy c o 2 emissions search for an alternative fuel. His virgin, one company collaborating with scientists in orkney is 0 avia. I contact director searcy kids a live whose excited about the 1st 15 minute long Hydrogen Test<\/a> flight. It was a combination of almost 3 years of research and that frankly, it was the it was live for delivering the baby. The 14 was the sorry of them the so excited at the same time. I know that you guys are planning to fly here with one of your hydrogen po, playing ah, the final flight down our high fire one project will be taking place from port you there or can you, hes famous for its the hydrogen. Can you give us a time scale of when you think that we will see passenger planes in the sky running on hydrogen . Of course that technology is in its infancy, but i personally believe that in about 15 to 20 years, there will be a lot of debts why im using being hydrogen. And this is truly exciting. So if we can arise to the challenges of our Energy Economy<\/a> or future transportation needs, it means embracing a range of solutions. And i think what the do here in orkney is proving that Green Hydrogen<\/a> can be part of the answer. Green hydrogen is beginning to take home. Its a key part of the eas plans to come to wells. First Carbon Neutral<\/a> constant by 2050 a new projects have been developed in chile, saudi arabia, united states. Yes, there is still a way to go before Green Hydrogen<\/a> is proven to be scalable and cost effective, but it is gaining traction. And its one of a number of Current Trends<\/a> that harold, a weld free. A fossil fuels is definitely a new power system and a new Energy System<\/a> emerging out of our eyes. Whether we look at Power Generation<\/a> in distribution or whether we look at transport. There is no doubt that we are in the middle of the most consequential transition in the energy space that we have seen in the 100 years. It is a very exciting moment. Its also a nerve wracking moment because we know that if we dont get to half emissions by 2030, it will be too late to do anything substantial about Climate Change<\/a>. This is our last window of opportunity to bend the curve of emissions and get on to a different track. And Green Society<\/a> would be a society that has a 100 Percent Clean Energy<\/a>. That energy would be decentralized, cheap, ubiquitous. We would be able to provide power to every single home on this planet. We currently have 800000000 people who do not have access to power, meaning theyre in abject poverty. By moving over to a 100 Percent Clean Energy<\/a> decentralized, we can make energy ubiquitous, and we can bring those work under the line of poverty over that line. A Green Society<\/a> would be an economy that has smart grids that has storage available to all the Renewable Energy<\/a> generation. Sources would also be society in which there is efficient and clean transport. Passenger vehicles would offer transport as a service, not being a possession of any individual and heavy transport would be using clean fuels. Finally, cities would be clean wyatt because we would have put the internal Combustion Engine<\/a> into them and cities would be organized into smaller communities, around food and energy at the beginning of the most decisive decade in the history of humankind. It behooves all of us. To understand that this has been challenging and will continue to be challenging, but we can do that. We can address Climate Change<\/a> in a timely fashion. We can avert the worst disasters of Climate Change<\/a>, and in so doing, we can bring a much better quality of life for all citizens of this planet. And certainly for the ecosystems upon which we depend, ah, people across the planet spending an increasing amount of time on line from work meetings and catching up with friends to movie streaming and shopping. We are now more reliant than ever on platforms which generates and store data. But this data doesnt just vanish into thin air. It comes at a very real environmental cost. Everything we do online passes through data centers which consume huge amounts of entity and emit nearly as much c o 2 as the airline industry. Im in no way to see how one center is harnessing the energy of these fields to stole our Digital Information<\/a> without a heavy carbon footprint. This is a famous tourist attraction and photo hotspot poke is stolen in no way. It draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. Im curious to find out what people know about the data, all these photos generate. So when you take a selfie, it lands somewhere, have you ever imagine where that could be . I think the 1st time i would imagine is my, when youre asking, i havent been thinking about it. No, i have no idea. I send it to google, i guess in the cloud, in the cloud. And you know what the cloud is, a bit of a Storage Place<\/a> ah, like myself, most people only have vague ideas of where all our data has kept. Ive come to university of savannah to meet an expert on data storage and find out where our self. Hes end up the photo is so ruby saw in the memory of their phone. And then if youll share the photo or you want to back up the photo into the cloud, it will end up using data center remotely could be in europe. It could be also in a remote sign across the atlantic at those they probably accumulated in those data center. And those wallkill are forced us to have a big a big data center. So burn, bear our problem for sustainability or how long or how much data we have to store them. In recent years, many of us have been moving into the digital realm and even more so under the curve at 19 pandemic her. If you hear from the city, so live our online habits, take a heavy toll on the environment. A typical search which passes through data centers processing and storing information requires as much entity as illuminating as 60 what light gold for 17 seconds. That doesnt sound like much until you realize google alone process is 3500000000 searches a day. Around one percent of electricity globally is consumed by data centers, many of which provide remote Storage Facilities<\/a> or what is also known as the cloud is estimated that intent is, is our data network grows. Almost 7 percent of all electricity will be used just to power and cool, huge servers preserving everything from billions of family photos to big data on space travel. So where and how you store your data can make all the difference. And no way is ahead of the game on this, since its powered nearly a 100 percent by Renewable Energy<\/a>, most of which comes from hydro power. Im on my way to lancaster and island nears devona. Ive heard they have an old military storage, but instead of storing to dose and wall hits, they now stole billions of bites of information from all over the world. The underground Green Mountain<\/a> data center which opened in 2013 is cop and neutral, is run on hydro power from water rest of us on the mountains. So question nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. Ah. Oh, wow. This is like being in a james bond film, but i can see that this is very secure. This is very secure. Oh wow. Thank you. So this is how it looks when we took over the to sites here is empty space, but it will not be empty forever. As soon as we grow, this will be a data center as well. So know were en freight. What people refer to as the cloud. This is where our customers are running their server storage equipment. So what kind of information if dont hear it could be anything from storage or picture to National Critical<\/a> infrastructure. It could be kids at home doing their lecture online. So many people when they think about the cloud, they think out in the open as i think white and fluffy. But actually the cloud in mid panic and in black. And its noisy, its black and its noisy, and it consumes a lot of power and generates a lot of heat to see how the Center Manager<\/a> says its a quick write down the corridor. Oh, were the in diffuse group. This is for all the gr, an energy flows through into the data. So this is basically the giant engine of this data center, the consumption in this data center with all the different data holes and consumes the power equal to about 20000 households. While this may seem a lot, some of the biggest data centers, consumers, much power at the city of a 1000000 people. Every click you do on your device, generates activity inside a data central summer. If its in norway is green and renewable as well. So using green energy, this data center is reducing its impact on the environment by cooling it service, choosing cold water from the nearby deep salt water inlet of yours. So whilst most data centers use around 40 percent of their energy to cool service, which would otherwise reach a 100 degrees celsius in minutes, this data center get its cooling free from nature. So this is where were producing the cold water used to cool the claudius. I am on cold see water from the fuel into the basin next to the data center. This water, which is constantly 8 degrees celsius, is then pumped up through the heat exchanger cooling down, separate water pipes that circulate through the data center. The wont up cbl to then exits back into the fjord at around 20 degrees celsius, where it quickly cools down again. The Green Mountain<\/a> data center in no way is unique because of the fuel cooling the service. And the way in which theyve repurposed an old site, but all over scandinavia tech giants like facebook, google, and microsoft. I building huge data centers running on hydro and wind power. In fact, investment in nordic data centers is set to double by 2025. I do our yes, the vote fully electric, im meeting siri. Kelvin, a local meteorologist and green investor whos confident this trend will continue to this is where the hydro power is. Yes, the old, the flu lay a hydro station. Its actually the worlds longest 4444. 00 steps over a 100 years old. So be careful, though i can see that its old from this old train here. Here you see the old pipe coming down from the mountain. So all the waters just flowing high speed in the pi, creating electricity when they hit the turbine. So you have to use for nature gives us. So in norway we have incredible rain or the concrete have sun. Yeah, we also have wind, but here its rain that gives us the electricity. Scandinavia will be important to the worlds data storage. I think scandinavia will be very important for future data storage. Its a cold climate if you can use to cold your to, to cool down the data center. We have the hydro pole word to run data centers. However, i think we also need to be even more responsible and take action that each one of us. And for instance, if we are talking on both data storage, we need to be concerned about how many celsius we need to take home many emails, some snaps and text message. We need to send me though we cant see it. Our use of digital devices has an impact on the world around us. This is only set to grow. Nearly 60 percent of the wealth population is already online and around 1000000. 00 new uses sign up each day. As our reliance and data expands, we need to find green ways to manage it here in no way, ive seen how this can be done. And i think we really need to learn from examples like this and make sure that we balance our modern lives with what the planet can sustain in which so many of us stuck time during the pans that make it perhaps hard to see that the world really has been given a golden opportunity for Green Recovery<\/a> commitments are happening all over the place as nations businesses, cities, investors pledge 0 call been targets by 2015. But right now 2013 the q year. Thats just under a decade to determine the feature of the planets around the world. Were already seeing glimpses the Green Society<\/a>, the could be hours last year, renewables overtook fossil fuels as the main source of electricity in europe, a new case in australia to the solar boom panels on rooftops, one in 4 highway the nor was that solar complex in morocco sub units, 1st phase, and its already producing enough energy to power the city of merit cash twice over a 60 percent of monthly car sells in norway or electric diesel cars will be banned there in 2025. The solutions are already there. It does need to go global to make a real difference. And for us to have that chance at a clean, green and prosperous future. Mm. Ah ah. And from the worlds most populated region in den and Untold Stories<\/a> across asia and the pacific. To discover the Current Events<\/a> with diverse coaches and conflicting politics. One 0, one east. On al jazeera. 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