A change in the kremlin behavior. But the russian economy is far from unscathed. We look at how the sanctions have caused their to backslide, as it remains cut off from exports important to its progress. And speaking of progress, well be looking at what might help economies catapult themselves into the future. Such as an unlimited supply of Clean Energy Technology via Nuclear Fusion. Or monitoring the environment with the help of satellite data from spaceship and a simplified creation process for the avatars. Representing us in virtual environment. Thats all coming up on this edition of made in germany. We start in russia. Statistics from the Russian Federation are simply not pointing to an economy on the brink of collapse, although its in worse shape than it was after the annexation of crimea in 2014. And the sanctions that followed minus 4 percent growth in the 2nd quarter, is still less dramatic than the drop in Economic Activity triggered by the corona virus pandemic. However, the world banks forecast for russias Economic Performance is much more severe. Its predicting an 11 per cent contraction for the countries gross domestic product. Russia apparently still has enough money to fund its war against ukraine, even if its longer and more intense than putting had hoped for have sanctions failed. Videos like this from russia are circulating on the internet. The supply situation seems to be good. There is no empty cell, fly in the eightys, or like in denying these moscow resident, nikita east. The mean confirms the impression. If i talking about you must they both food ah, a program oh, chemistry for household even the new i phone 13 is available. The latest models arent being exported to russia, but a lot still gets into the country in other ways. Like bmw ws, assembled in india, bought from a dealer in dubai. We sold to armenia and from their duty free to moscow, not illegally. It just flows through countries that havent imposed sanctions. Its become more and more important, especially in it asked, i cant you, molly . Broadnix maxime, you turn off is an economist from russia. What his mom are people to consumer. Some companies far, far away around the functions because some markets very flexible. Yes. Much much benefit from 34 percent bought in. You still can find a way the chinese products are currently displacing those from the west. And the flow of the import is unlike you just stop in the coming months. We thought that these things are going to be more accepted also by other parties. Francesco g o, many is an expert on sanctions. The elephant in the room is china, or we also know of other actors, india, south africa, brazil. Turkey has been used a lot in these days, so and the grey market a can replace part of the nest than the needs of russia. If all these actors are not cooperating, certain products such as Aircraft Parts are not so easy to import because they have to be registered with the manufacturer. High Tech Products and components are also difficult. So russia will most likely fall behind technologically. Mentioned to you just more from our bronze h to stone age. You just go one step back and tell me what you have so far like after was mozilla, you knock on a picture. Masha is already producing carson. The previous ga is out, automatic transmission is out a bit. Yes is are on a model in the end, rushes economy probably wont collapse as much as the west at hoped for. And protein will still have enough money to finance his war and ukraine. Now, dependence on russian fossil fuels and how it helps moscow finance. Its aggression into ukraine has brought new vigor to discussions around how to ensure a clean energy for all all across the world. Billions of euros are being poured into developing Nuclear Fusion technology. And recent breakthroughs and plasma physics experiments have given the Scientific Community reason to hope. Are we about to see an era of limitless, clean energy supply. Billions of being poured into Nuclear Fusion development right now from both public and private institutions. The aim is limitless, clean energy. It is very important to develop Nuclear Fusion now, so that we have it when we need it. Were going to make it here on her. But how does Nuclear Fusion work and cannot really help to combat the Climate Crisis . The core of the sun is a perfect environment for fusion. The suns huge Gravitational Forces and temperatures reaching 15000000 degrees celsius cause the atoms in its core to collide at very high speeds. Because of the density and high temperature, the Hydrogen Atom nuclei fuse and become helium. But some of the atomic mass is converted into energy. This is the fusion everybodys talking about. To replicate the process on earth, you need to create the conditions of the sun. You need very strong maintenance to keep the plasma floating in the right position. The next thing you need to do is heat up the inside of the chamber. We need temperatures of 802200 1000000 degrees for the fusion reactions to go to do that, we use Magnetic Fields and we couldnt heat. Thats tim loose. He works for it or the biggest fusion experiment in the world, 100000000 degrees celsius. Let that sink in. Research is create those temperatures with Magnetic Fields and microwaves, like heating you left of a soup, but on steroids. The benefit fusion produces no High Level Nuclear waste. Scientists say we will have to deal with contaminated power plant material from fusion reactors. Meaning parts of the wools must be replaced periodically. Perfusion. What we expect is the only residual radioactivity will be the structural materials by design and improving line. We believe we can reduce a long term waste both the time, which is radioactive and the amount, but even now with existing technologies, were looking at lifetime on the order of a 100 years for the radioactive waste, not tens of thousands of years. The physicists aim to use the plasma with its millions of reactions per 2nd to create a huge constant supply of energy with very small amounts of fuel and eventually power the grid with it. Once fusion reactors are built and as long as you would need to heat them up with renewables and later on without external help, they could be low carbon or eventually carbon free. So sounds too good not to pursue it, right. The e u funded u. K based jet took an x, a fusion device, says it can handle plasma hotter than anywhere in the solar system. About 350. 00 scientists take part in experiments and the Test Facility each year. In the colossal Multi National project, supported by 35 nations aims to construct a massive fusion test reactor in southern france. And dozens of so called fusion stops are also pushing towards commercialization. Many plan to use magnetic confinement, light eater. Some are also raising money for different kinds of technical approaches, such as using lasers instead of magnets to replicate the conditions of the sun. The Fusion Industry Association and Industry Trade group says that the start ups have disclosed a total of more than 4000000000. 00 of private funding up to 2021. But all types of reactors faced the same problem. It takes enormous amounts of energy to heat them up for fusion power to be worthwhile. The fusion reaction itself must release more energy than was put in. No experiment has managed that yet. So how far away from achieving that . Heating the gases is one thing, but keeping the plasma stable enough to keep reacting is a different story. Mm. We need to make our plasma such that it doesnt destroy the wall and the wall itself then affecting the plasma athena kappa 2 is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for plasma physics, who works at the european joint project jet, but also the materials appropriate. So that they can both withstand this, this heat loans and neutrons and everything. And keep in mind, were still talking about test fusion reactors. Theyre not meant to power the grid. Theyre only mini versions of potential full fledged reactors of the future. So there will no electricity, when ether is, is completely working and, and has all the results. So then we would start to have another fusion machine. Its called demon. And its very unclear if this will ever be put used. Hes a Nuclear Physicist and works for greenpeace. So when will Fusion Energy actually hit the grid . I would say sometime between 20602070 is when well be able to see substantial power plants on the line. If there is an investment at this started now to prepare for. But theres a lot of uncertainty around the fusion stops, of course, their predictions of energy breakeven analytical power production. In the next decade there is nothing but fantasies. This is daniel jaspy retired Research Businesses to worked at the princeton plasma physics laboratory. I see it positively. I say that the more people work in this and with more different aspects, the better it is. Its impressive that the Scientific Community takes such a long view and plans to stay on track for decades. If only we didnt face the pressing problem of global warming. So should we be investing in something as uncertain as fusion, or would it be better to spend the money on shore bits now like renewables . It depends on who you ask. Well, i think its necessary to invest Long Term Solutions because its, its hard to see that renewals are renewables will be 100 percent of the solutions olla. Theres lots of Research Going on in solo with multi lea young solar panels. So it will not be in a comically it will, it runs for a future extra. The 2050 question is, is unlikely to, to be answered by i fusion. But the 2100 question 2200 question beyond i think fusion is the only answer i know that will address those for a. Busy growing society that needs. Ready more Energy Production even than we make now. So what do you think . Will you recharge your phone battery with solar panels on your roof in the future . Or will you have a mini fusion reactor in your back yard instead . Some times we must look to the stars to make sense of whats happening here on earth. In this next report we meet abby last a poor of our. She found a blue sky analytics attacks. 3rd up that combine satellite data, an Artificial Intelligence to monitor air, water in soil quality in almost real time. My name is alisha, im founder and ceo of blue sky analytics. And im trying to create a bid to those when of young men are, in fact were trying to create a bit of both where our planet with their more than 700 satellites, up in the orbit, actively taking pictures of our planet, all the date of every aspect of air quality, water quality. However much of that data is archived and not really mine and convert into Accessible Information that can be utilized by different stakeholders. Thats what use their analytics is doing. Really high, big dba and Technology Team of young jin, visa and millennials. In fact, were the generation which will be most affected by climate change. Im personally a very persistent, hard working and going focus person. And i think that really percolates to the entire organization. They really believe in leading by example. She doesnt seem like a traditional boss. She provides all the freedom to explore impediment. In fact, she has pro, i do all of us a platform to be a boss. So far we want whenever claim being, honestly, i feel happy if the more achievement declaim apart. And, you know, being able to do that think we need, give an example of what all can i do and leave that motivation is a really big driving force for me to really engage with nato. As you can see here with all the who, maybe like 67 floors story landfill comprises of all the fluids that we had, the card it. We had blue sky and monitor all these landfills across the world and the pollution from them when theyre burning to be able to understand any of the Climate Action and the environment blue paint thats happening around them and verify them and see if theyre really happening or not my parents and grandparents have already be very supportive off my education. However, this lately conservative protective and with schoolers and were not such a big fan of me traveling all over the world by myself or diving into an entrepreneurial venture. But i became financially independent as early as 18. Those really able to convince them. Also i started to succeed like step by step. They really came to my side. And today theyre the biggest supporters of tuesday. A after being thing over 4 years, i recently met one of my Oldest College friends and hes also, you know, doing different startups and hes building an amazing product. I think we really jailed on the fact because we could understand each other. And i think that partnership at home has also been very supportive for both of us. I think doing some things skillfully, which felt impossible just a few months ago. That feels like success to me. Voice Recognition Technology has featured prominently in Digital Systems in recent years. But especially a non English Speaking markets are massively underserved. 2 thirds of people in africa for example, find themselves at the wrong side of the digital language barrier. But one open source project is hoping to change that and get as many languages represented in voice activated tech as possible. Or pre qualified viola new wa ha, would much prefer to give commands to her smart phone in her native language. But her only option is english. We, we are using that gutted and technologies, right . So if theyre Building Technologies that they know where each decide of the world, they could make them more inclusive. On top of that, only a few websites are available in African Languages. No matter how commonly theyre spoken, people who dont speak a global language are effectively at a digital disadvantage. That includes about 2 thirds of all africans, listen africa a we, when we, we are not the main ticket market for these big companies. Joshua bison. Gay is a tech entrepreneur from uganda. He says, there are clear reasons for the linguistic hierarchy. The Companies Like google, amazon, apple, have really concentrated in maintaining to solve the key business sectors. O. B, o is sit at biggest glance where many europe or the you with us is because that puts the new can afford to pay for their products. Help could be at hand in the shape of the common toys project, initiated by browser provider mozilla. The Initiative Aims to create an open Source Database of recording samples that can be used to build speech recognition tools. To him if a ha with dilemma chicago tongue. Michelle kita about whom rudy sequel so far more than 75000 people have volunteered to record individual sentences for the project. The database is constantly expanding over the next decade. Speech will become the primary way people interact with devices from their laptops, your phones, traditional assistance. And retail key is janai chair is mozillas chief advisor on this mammoth project, which has received several 1000000 euros of funding from private companies and non profit organizations. So its quite important that as the african continent to which already faces is around the digital divide, in terms of the difference of people who have access to technology and who dont. There are more than 1000. 00 African Languages that do not feature online. Changing that would grant millions of africans who cannot read or write access to Digital Information and opportunities. My personal signing style goal is to have old languages represented on these space straight languages represented, preserved, and respected. This chop bought was created using data from common voice. It answers questions about the corona virus. There are numerous potential applications that could help improve peoples lives in africa. Take farmers, identifying passed quickly could help them take swift action that would help secure harvests and reduce malnutrition. While there are already free apps that can help farmers identify crop damage so far, theyre only in english. Having just talked about the use of our voices in technology. Why not take a look at the whole human body while were at it . Many of us are familiar with avatars, but creating realistic and movable 3 d models of the human body has previously required complex motion capture techniques and costly machine systems. One tech start up a based here in germany has figured out ways to simplify that whole process. Take a look. The mesh copied a take a startup from cyber rarely in tubing and southwest in germany. Aims to simplify the complex motion capture techniques of parties gaining not a metal, a buck historical polar of mesh copied, sees Digital Vision makes it easy to create digital rep because of humans. With true to life, body shapes, and sizes. What we are developing makes it possible for everybody to create an avatar super, super easy ways. With that you can just use your phone and take a photo and that is enough to create your avatar. If you take more photos of yourself, you can. The avatar has more information about how you look from different angles and that sort of makes your avatar even more like yourself. And thats essentially the huge power of what we are developing at michigan paid. Ah, in th