On russian oil and gas. From an environmental perspective though, one hopeful scenario is that we may see an accelerated switch to renewables as a response to the crisis. The potential of course is huge, but as well see on todays show, so are at the challenges coming up by offshore wind, farms and grease are drawing protests to harness the heating power of computers and a brief history of electric mobility. Im k. Ferguson. Welcome to mate. Rising fuel costs are an especially big issue for Energy IntensiveIndustries Like ally, many and production. Just take a look at this trajectory in the past 2 years, the price of natural gas has risen nearly 40 folds in europe. Though sky rocketing costs are putting a huge strain on production facilities and our next report will hear from industry insiders in the western german city of noice. The production of liquid aluminum has a long history in germany. The process used to make it is comb, fused song electrolysis, and it uses a lot of energy, a whole lot. One ton of aluminum needs. 15000 kilowatt hours. Energy costs and germany this summer meant that costs 6000 euros, bought on the world market. A ton of aluminum sells for just a fraction of this price. So what happens now . If it gets ripped, i think production will decrease and were seeing that already. I really hope we can avoid a large scale industry shut down. Unclean is gone and works for the Economic Development department in noice. The city has a history that goes back over 2000 years, making it one of the oldest cities in germany. Today noyce is a wealthy industrial town. Still andreas gone on st. John has gone tougher. B for bravo. Consumers are watching their wallets because they dont know whats coming this winter you fall. Theyre saving and trade and gastronomy are noticing a mom yet. So were in crisis mode for the 3rd straight year. Well, we will, after corona, were trying to make sure things dont get even worse for Business Owners more lift the good bond. The local Economic Development office cant solve the Energy Crisis on its own. Noise has been especially hard hit. 3 major aluminum factories are located nearby. Their energy costs are almost 10 times higher than they were last here. Line back has already cut its production by half, which has raised concerns. Yes, it was on the that, oh were facing a unique challenge and an especially difficult situation. We certainly made the cushion the blow from the hardships in these industries for their employees, that e, but in this time of energy scarcity, it doesnt make sense to artificially keep Energy Intensive industries producing this winter in log in. So should businesses just shut down for the winter . The aluminum industry says thats absurd. Then often which i ovens like these cant just be turned off like your oven at home. Its an incredibly laborious and cost intensive process f 1. 00 and firing them up again, only makes sense if there are major changes in the energy market. Id like to say not up. There is an Energy Distribution problem to households. Automobiles and businesses need energy. And there are big differences between industries. These branches use 75 percent of industrial and gee, and are now in big trouble. Political action is needed. Energy intensive businesses are demanding a europe wind cap on Energy Prices, as well as state bank aid to Keep Companies from having to stop production. This is one point businesses and labor unions agree on Works Councils plan to turn up the political pressure in the, in ag, he intends, in just over 800000 people, work in Energy Intensive industries in germany, which gives us a lot of weight politically with india. Hon gotta buy, pull, its 800000 workers means 800000 vote in our system. So we can definitely make a difference the much present possibly being. Now the government must decide will Energy Intensive industries be granted emergency aid . Or should the state provide relief to employees and will have to find new jobs in the long run . Because few believe that Energy Prices and germany will drop significantly any time soon. On foot, i believe in all, i presume the worlds aluminum production will shift to places where Energy Production is cheaper, all d, e for. If we want to produce in a way that sustainable, that will tend to be in places where Photovoltaic Energy is available in the daytime. All year round. Oh, oh, no peace, gusty of the solar energy is dirt cheap. Days when we find it. Heavy industries leaving germany would be a horror scenario for economic developer. Unclear scotland. 5000 jobs in his region depend on the aluminum industry alone. Im sure its rid of. Yeah, itd be great if folks would cut back a bit so we can keep work ingram. Otherwise, id gladly lower the heat a few degrees at home. If that Means Industries and noise can keep going. How much energy and emergency a while the allotted germany faces a tough decision. As in expect, the Energy Crisis has led to urgent calls to speed up the green transition. But that is easier said than done. Take grief. As an example. The government there wants to shut an all coal plants by the year 2028th. The plan is that by 203070 percent of the countrys energy needs will be covered by renewables. In recent years, the island of eva, east of athens, has become an example of how the switch to renewables could knock. Its home to several 100 Wind Turbines, but not every one is a fan of the venture. And though it might surprise you, some of the loudest voices of discontent are actually coming from Environmental Groups. In the south of a via you can see Wind Turbines everywhere. There are 400 in this region alone and more are plant. Katerina and yanis belong to an Environmental Group fighting against more industrial wind farms. Sylvester le 5 because of salisa, may think its a shame from the mountain at the back all the way to here that 14 more Wind Turbines are being planned. So each at a height of 185 meters, them there are the foundations. And of course the accompanying wide roads that are fair enough in the ocean. Fiancees roman nature is already under attack here after several devastating wildfires. Ready contrary to what was promised, the area hasnt been re forested. So heavy rains pose a threat to the coastal town. Without plants and trees, the water gushes down unchecked. Rods cracking walls, falling houses, flooding fil we. We experienced all that amount of water coming down with a great force and having nothing to hold it. And now if the turban do get installed, the entire mountain will be balled, so there will be no for nothing to hold the water. And that could spell the end for these roman ruins. The famous chip elina marble of ancient greece was once quarried. Here no wind turbine says the banner. The inhabitants of Southern India are fed up. They dont even benefit from the electricity because it goes to the attic, a region on the mainland via an underwater cable. Instead, residents here are left with the remains of 32 disused Wind Turbines. Its potentially hazardous water for which no one is apparently taking responsibility. This hikers paradise in the north of the island is also threatened. The Energy Company motor oil wants to cut down 50000 trees for a wind farm. Residents here are outraged and dont understand the reasoning. The companies have fair given their environmental studies about this area. I, they opinion is that the distraction of their 50000. 00 threes and theyre, theyre part of the, of the mountains in this particular area. Its not gonna affect their, the actual environments or the economy or anything. So where we had to the biggest number of people going against it. Now, a Broad Coalition of activists, scientists and politicians, is fighting to preserve this by a t hope. The regions governor is critical of the actions taken by the government in athens. The wish thus good for some more Energy Democracy 1000000 a fortune with the 2 more and smaller investors to create their own renewables. And also for, for the big was it to have a deeper social control instead of so for when, how in which level they are the developer of the area mission also containing, if you, fortunately for us and it was really for us to license the renewables which are nowadays licensed the by the federal government. Many residents believe their objections dont count, even though theyre the ones who will have to live with the consequences of more Wind Turbines. These ugly projects will have a negative impact on the beauty of the place. I think this many Wind Turbines makes no sense. There are other ways to generate energy like from floating offshore Wind Turbines in the c, let this and im a little bit lyn latham. The race for offshore permit has already begun Hellenic Petroleum has just signed a deal with German Energy giant r w e. Starting with a 2 megawatt wind farm at see exactly where isnt yet clear but voting, wind parks out on the high seas and out of sight arent likely to happen any time soon as they see in greece and still be deep. So if you have to be pretty close to the shore, to be able to develop fixed bottom projects. It, my understanding is that the 1st around were consist mainly or 6 bought on eligible projects studies. And i like the really shallow waters close to the shore. Wind turbines on the island and in the surrounding sea. The Tourism Branch isnt pleased him there. So in stanley and veteran law, installing them in the sea would be even worse than mere. Its always tourists come here to enjoy the beautiful thing. We trade on that in the clear water, the natural beauty, the peace and tranquillity. They are then wed lose everything were unfair live and the on the grief aims to become climate neutral to reach that goal. Its clearly even willing to sacrifice nature on the beautiful gee and islands. Here in germany, its getting noticeably cooler in ordinary times. This might be the moment it turn on the hes this year though many people are choosing to forego their usual comforts and just pop on an extra sweater or some woolly socks instant. But perhaps there are other options available. It might find outlandish, but could your computer heat your hope . And he asked my house investigates, can computers be used for heating . It can get pretty warm when you work with your laptop on your lap. And the more data your desktop computer processes the hotter it get, couldnt you harnessed this energy to heat your home . Unfortunately, not the so called thermal dissipation loss of a p. C is far too low for that. But it could be enough for a single room measuring 15 square meters, a p c produces 120. 00 watts of waste heat up to 350. 00 watts with a graphics card. A modern Apartment Building needs at least 30 watts per square meter for heating. So its enough for the home office when the p. C is running at full capacity. Big data centers are another story. They generate lots of heat and usually must be cooled with air conditioning. That eats up more than half of the Energy Requirements of a server farm and the heat just dissipates unused. Not so in frankfurt. Here 3000 new apartment are already heated with waste heat, from a nearby data center via a district heating at work. Oh. Even better, why not install the heat stores right into the building, like a company from dredged in does instead of a centralized data center, the servers are spread over several buildings. A server cabinet with 10 or 16 computers and the seller can heat a 150 square meter house year round the computers are networked. No more need for cooling or a server font. The data should be secure because if the cabinet is opened, the system shuts down. And heating with computers is far from reaching its potential. Digital association bit come figures some 350000 upon once in germany, could be supplied just way. Its a small part of the countrys heating needs, but an important step away from fossil fuels. When you think of the history of automobiles, hed be forgiven for assuming that electric mobility is a rather new phenomenon embodied by signing you. Tesla running off the production line. In reality though, electric vehicles have been around for well over a century, they just didnt catch on commercially time to go on a voyage of discovery to find out by this is an electric car. And this and this long before long mask unveiled tesla model 3 whole 119 years before. In fact, a guy called to albert pope presented the columbia most of carriage, one of the 1st commercial electric cars. Americans loved it and electric cars in general. So much so thats around the turn of the century. They out sold gasoline powered cars. So what the hell happened . Almost all vehicles in our streets today, gasoline college. And even though electric cars have come back, they certainly havent quite broken into the mainstream. But thats about to change. Why did electric cars disappear . And why are they going to make it big this time . Lets take the 1st question 1st. There were a couple of reasons why the electric car failed and the early 19 hundreds. But ultimately, the problem is the battery. This is tom standards, the Deputy Editor of the economist magazine. Hes written hold book on the history of the car, the lead acid battery, which is what the early calls using was very cheap, but it doesnt pack a lot of energy into a small space and its very heavy. This meant you couldnt go very far and usually under 70 kilometers, even 2 of the brightest minds of the time, henry ford and thomas edison, who wanted to develop the fordable electric cars, were not able to solve this. And so the internal Combustion Engine took the lead, gradually got more reliable, and the fact that you could just, you know, head out into the roads and youd probably be able to find fuel for this vehicle in a Hardware Store or in a cabinet that gave them an edge because people who were buying these early cars, whichever rich people he wanted to go on adventures, electric, how many cars had one last idea to save that product. They started marketing, its physically to women because that clean and quiet. And you dont have to be strong to turn the handle to get them started. So these were all seen is sort of feminine attributes. But then most drivers were men. And so the electric car gradually turned into a nice products and then disappeared completely. Throughout the 20th century, there have been some attempts to revive them. For example, in the seventys, when the all crisis had people looking for alternative sources of energy. But the Spectrum Technology hadnt progressed much. The comic was short lived in the ninetys General Motors came out with the evie, one that attracted somewhat of a cult following which ironically might have been a problem for the manufacturer. It all turned out to be a bit of a p r nightmare because the more General Motors went told about just how wonderful in green, good for the environment. These electric cars were the more the company reminded everybody how bad for the environment all of its all the calls were ultimately General Motors decided to pull the plug. G m denied this. But one reason why electric cars have never made it big, is that the kind oil industry probably didnt really want them to welcome to the electric cars, the future sponsored by the gasoline producers of america. Oh, hi. I cant go very fast, very high. The Combustion Engine has been a money printing machine for car makers and oil companies, but it now has an expired dates because 2 things have changed. One Battery Technology has improved. Lithium ion battery store, more energy in a smaller space, and theyre lighter than lead based batteries. And to the big thing that changes that we are now concerned about Climate Change in a way that people werent a 100 years ago, most people hadnt, hadnt thought about a tool. And now we recognize that pumping all of this helped outside of the app say, which weve been doing for the last the day, 200 years, also is affecting the climate. And therefore we cant go on empowering all cause by burning fossil fuels. And so the list of countries planning to ban sales of cars with internal Combustion Engines is growing and many that are not yet on it. Like the usa, making it very favorable to buy in the v Car Companies are shifting as well. We are waiting for the future. Were electrifying our entire fleet of cars some faster than others. But many of the major traditional carmakers have said goals for electrifying their fleet at us. Were changing to sales of these on the rise, especially in europe and china. More than half of car owners say then next car will be electric. But despite all this, the big picture still looks pretty bleak. Around 1300000000. 00 Passenger Vehicles on the roads and only 1. 5 percent of them are electric. Change just happens slowly, doesnt it . Well, not really change actually happens in waves from the flush toilet to the telephone. The microwave, to tv and computers. Every innovation that snuck into everyday lives that so in the same way. So if you adopt new technologies very slowly and then very quickly, this is paul drummond, whos been figuring out wh