Themselves short of cash here in germany that led to a resurgence in the age old practice of pawning more on that coming up. But 1st taster of whats on the show here, how the gas prices are rising and affecting ordinary families. And the u. S. State of north dakota is embracing renewables and how a gym and Jeans Factory is going by tech and green at the same time. On robots. Ok. Now if you want to gauge just how bad an economic crisis is being felt on the ground, you need to look no further than porn shops for those struggling selling cherished belongings is a quicker and easier way of getting cash than looking for a loan. The practice has been around for a long time to believe it or not, the worlds 1st pawn shops date back to the 5th century when they were established by Buddhist Monks in china. The romans later introduced the practice in europe, and over the centuries or shops were established in amsterdam, kent and brussels with merchants and the Italian Region of lombardy, bringing them to england to one of the most prominent early practitioners was king edward the 3rd. He poured some of his royal possessions to finance is war with france. Now, centuries late as the cost of living crisis leaves people struggling to pay their bills on shops are once again experiencing a renaissance as chris jam. Priscillas report for though im out of unkind officers, if there is a fitter when businesses good here is a sure sign that people are struggling financially done. Theres your pawn ticket, m. 0506070809800. The customer gets a loan of a 100 euros for 3 months, subject to 4 percent interest per month. Mika, admiring takes items of value as collateral for moans. Inflation means businesses booming countermeasures on for him. He cut, for example, before the water pack of butter cost one year a 39. 00 at budget supermarket wood, and now it costs 199. 00 and more noise and coffee has also jumped in. Price is full amount from 3 year a 60 to 4 year old. Shell. Its the same with everything. Once the pawnbroker as issued the loan. The pond item is taken to the store room. The shelves are stocked with everything from place stations to rare model, railway set, and computers, all kinds of valuables. If a customer fails to pay back the loan, the pawnbroker is entitled to sell the item in question. His store is seen growing demand of neck money as oh, i notice it myself when im out shopping or at the gas station. So thanks. Everythings much more expensive. Oh, well thats the gnomon. Even those with a normal income are struggling with them. God only mccloud, many people are coming to the pawnbroker people who wouldnt have done so before i got a notice of his stores in an Old Industrial town in the rural valley and is far from the only one in town. The jewelry on display, the former belongings of customers, unable or unwilling to repay the loan. By lunchtime the key was formed, most people have come for loans, sometimes in the thousands. One customer, however, is here to buy back a ring. She pond for 170. 00 euros. Lazy little. Yeah. On that, im delighted to have got it back to feed on me. So last time ive mazing he thing and electricity bills and low a real wages. And im a single mom t, so its tough. Most customers do actually manage to settled, their loan pawnbroker. Michelle mailing only sells on items. If their owner is in solvent above, i took my mostly i, we prefer not to sell a pond item. We only do it as a last resort. Its better to see customers getting their possessions back if its better for us, because we can keep on lending. Plus, customers get to keep their things, such rosanna, rosanna, gigs, and, and off. Here hes issuing a loan for a luxury watch, almost 18000 euros. Those kinds of sums require the right expertise to ensure that the item is authentic, and in proper working order either before the recent rise and turnover is partly due to customers. Now coming from all walks of life, one such watch belongs to the boss of a large trades business who needed to pay his employees by phone, by and back on as, as harveys or ill fuck you about how in the trade business clients often dont pay on time, but theyve got to cover their operating costs, rent taxes, and staff wages will not fussy at the end of the month, or we get people coming in and pawning their price. He watches before picking them up again a few weeks later wrote up or when unfreeze hung up at the moment, thats really common or found not really autonomic rummage, global upscale jewelry, likewise requires a savvy eye, a diamond or thing with an array of gems. But there is an impostor among them. Yes, i was ordered. One of them has been replaced with guitar toward nevada, when it had a modern, brilliant cut vacant, and looked like this one that rosy views Austin Vanstone is, is scaled up glass replica though i would about the emotional side of the job when people are handing in treasured personal or family possessions or to the most money couldnt. I mean, of course you want customers to feel okay, that is the way its not like people say in the morning parade. Today, im off to the pon, brokers i la invoice. Instead, theyre all going through difficulties or theyre often struggling or are in hardship. So you do your best to make sure they leave with a good feeling of that and no, im good with through the whole skin. Yeah, recently there have been more than a 100 customers some days. This man, once upon a tv set, gas prices are just too high for who we used to pay a 150. 00 euros or now its 250. 00. Thats a big difference. So he gets 100. 00 euros or maybe this will be enough to get by at the end of the week, hell be getting the government gas bill rebate for next month. So he might be back for his t v sooner rather than later. Now on sector more than any others driving up the cost of living. And that is energy. Russian president Vladimir Putins decision to choke off gas supplies to the u is led to a steep increase in prices. Or several governments have moved to entities, energy price caps, that hasnt been enough to reassure citizens, and the situation is under control. But a mil yardage schmidt gives us an insight into how his family is coping with the energy crisis. Im facing 3. Ready problems. Ready Natal Schmidt relies on gas for 3 things, heating their home for hot water and for cooking in last year ive spent about 1500 euros on natural gas this year, 3000 euros, and its getting even worse with his wife. He has a combined income of around 4000 years nice, but with prices for everything, including food giving up. Hes wondering how much longer theyll be able to make ends meet. He lives in berlin and often has lunch at a local snack bomb. Nice people, nice food, but his favorite sandwich has shot up one euro to 790 and thats over his budget. I used to have landfill 3 or 4 times the week. I really enjoy it. But now it feels like a guilty pleasure. I know its not a give the pleasant, but its so much cheaper to eat at home. Perhaps an expense can provide some reassurance about the energy crisis. Turns out Thomas Odonnell has bad news to report from the energy market. Even if storage is full, that will last only about 2 and a half months in the heating season. So end of december sometime if theres depends on how cold it is, we could use it up very fast. Then youre going to have a situation where theres simply not enough. You can import as much energy as used to come through the pipelines for russia. So. Ready its going to be rationing and things could get even worse. Thats despite the German Government announcing new large scale deals for liquid natural gas impulse. This year it was a struggle to fill the storage. But if you remember, russia was still sending. Guess they were grudgingly sending and cutting it back, but they did send gas and that allowed the storage to be filled. Undoubtedly next winter theyll sending, it wont be sent. So itll be rundown. And i how do you philip . Next year, germany now has Something Like 7 o n g offshore floating in regards to vacation units. That will bring in natural gas. But you know, even if these go very well over the next year or 2, its only a percentage, maybe 2540 percent of what we used to get from russia. Like everyone else Natal Schmidt needs to cut back on gas for financial reasons to the big question is, whats the low temperature we can spend in the winter time . His wife has found another way to save some money, 20 years a month. In fact, we have to switch to natalie again, who i that again is one thing my mother at least they dont need to make any compromises. When cooking at home as usual, its passed upon the nase. Well, theyre not a very appreciative eater. I dont feel poor, but its frustrating because nobody knows when the crisis would come to an in well, as we saw that many households in germany still rely heavily on gas, but would be great if Renewable Energy could take its place with heat ways becoming more common solar power offers huge potential, but one challenge is how to store the energy for when the sun is not shining. One german startup believes its found. The answer. O this factory is known as the giga factory. Its founders are banking on big success with gigantic batteries. The world needs them to otherwise Sustainable Energy production will be difficult to achieve. But the road to success is paved with many challenges. What can be done when the sun doesnt provide enough power . Easy store the energy and advance test folk delivers the giant batteries that can do that. One Small Community in eastern germany is now energy independent. As a result, when even transmitter, the weathers nice, there are a lot of solar power plants in operation in germany. This energy can be stored and used in the evenings or in weather like this is especially the host name. This approach isnt used much in germany yet, but demand for these huge batteries is rapidly rising. One module can store 10 kilowatt hours of energy about what a 4 person household uses daily. The Company Makes larger units for industry. Were doesnt buy any of the war and ukraine has increased demand for energy that sustainable, reliable, and affordable their thing. Customers call us and say they need our Storage Units to stabilize their energy costs. Im fin with it the only way to decouple from rising electricity prices. I look for them all. If one were to use solar power and Energy Storage for 20 years, it would cost 0. 60 per kilowatt hour of solar energy plus 10 euro cents for the storage. Thats half of what people pay currently. But theres a catch. Most batteries dont last that long, and their performance decreases substantially over time. In conventional storage systems, the weakest battery cell determines the performance of the entire unit. Its a basic law of physics and a major shortcoming. In chess vote, storage system. On the other hand, the strong battery support, the weaker ones, which in turn improves the performance of the entire unit. A u. S. P. That means they can change more than the competition. Yeah, in with you, our approach almost doubles battery life. Thats not, thats a big advantage. It was a full time customers who buy solar or wind power plants to see what the investment to be worth it is going on if they should last 20 years. And the batteries should, to what to lead us to life. But this technology requires a lot of computer chips thats difficult. Now, due to the global chip shortage test focus, responded by developing a new storage module. As adam with an ac, we had to react very quickly, neu, in our new module, we were able to reduce the amount of computer chips we use for manufacturing. And in our products, by 80 percent thats. Thats another reason we were able to keep expanding. Ive actually, weve grown a 100 percent on last year and foil, im not whats in the demand for green energy will continue to increase dramatically. But Storage Capacity will struggle to keep up not least because of the lack of the necessary Raw Materials. Athena was abolished. I and is, and Raw Materials really are the missing puzzle piece in and out in the old building. Batteries often requires the use of rare earth and not sooner. See that with battery sales of the future, we must be able to use more affordable and accessible Raw Materials, not ex, placing technology for that would make large scale expansion possible key shopping fee and funds in europe or parts of it could be energy self sufficient and use affordable, green energy all the time video for fossil sodium would be a cheaper and more available raw material. It could be used to in a few years. Test volt already has over 100000000 euros of orders and fresh capital. The start up plans to build another giga factory soon. Now, germany is by no means the only country embracing the switch to renewables in the united states. President joe biden has pledged to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. One state that is showing signs of change is north dakota and a region built on fossil fuels indigenous communities up and working to protect the environment path in as polls centers this report on how the su tribes are leading the effort. The su tribe is lived in north dakota for centuries before european settlers stole their land and way of life. Cody 2 bears is a descendant of a tribal chief and grew up in the cannonball community in the Standing Rock reservation. For him, the transition from fossil fuels to Renewable Energy is not about politics or making money, but about respecting his ancestors and his culture. When arlene, would you say nothing, my spirit. Anything with earth, with plan in this universe that has a spirit that grows, moves water, that flows grass that grows the animal, the 4 legged, the winged ones. So when we try to protect the land, we try to protect the earth and water and all these elements, those in our culture are relative with the increasing environmental destruction caused by oil and gas extraction. And pipelines like these as motivated him to collect money from foundations for the construction of a solar farm in Standing Rock in 2019 within the 1st 2 years, cannonball said 30000. 00 in energy costs. How significant return for one of the poorest communities in the u. S. When here, a part of a fossil fuel driven lead. A lot of times the policies within those state are all pro oil pro coal. And it makes it that much more difficult to do these types of projects within a state thats created that way. Where every time we do things like this, it takes that much away from having to rely on fossil fuels dying substances. What i say if its something that you get from the ground, we can use the natural elements that we have, like the sun, the wind, different, other elements around us thats more natural to our environment that doesnt destruct the lands and contaminate our water. Then were making the world a better place to live. North dakota is known for its oil and gas production, but over the last several years, when does become another source of energy and our outside fargo. We meet Energy Consultant paul jensen, with one of the largest wind farms in the state. She can probably feel to bay, we have a very high wind capacity factor here in the state. The wind blows her continuously, we call it the saudi arabia of wind. That biggest challenge is to get the population to educated in understanding the benefits of having Renewable Energy and the freedom that it gives you. Because its actually patriotic to be focusing on Renewable Energy because it means independence from so power. But educating north conans is not the only challenge green Energy Advocates face in this oil rich state. Here, where donald trump 165 percent of the vote in 2020 and where republicans dominate democrats in the state senate, 40 to 70. There was a lot of political influence that is pushing for more oil drilling. Meryl pipe corn is one of those democrats who supports Renewable Energy in this state. In various states, homeowner is encouraged to, to install certain panels. And here in north dakota we, theres nothing really to coach adams thought it was good for people putting in their own net metering systems are just not friendly. Were not open to it. And again, i think it might be a little bit of lack of knowledge is lack of education like in the elected Generating Companies like Distribution Companies because of pretty much lobby against the to so its very the cody ju bears believes that there is not much time left and its critical for the west to finally shift to cleaner renewable resources. What we say in our language, mca mother, her full and warning, because every single day were affecting our, our mother, were harming our mother mart cold. So ways and why sciences than and realizes that being their original care caretakers of this land. We know how to give back a lot of people had so many years, but nobodys ever learn how to get a native american. And he brought to the table in this country to start with worldwide. So important today to start giving back with the Current Energy crisis. The Renewable Energy industry hopes to become a bigger part of the conversation. Another industry thats come on, discrete ne, for its Environmental Impact is fashion. With ever more, claire is being sold at ever lower price as it can seem like a race to the bottom. In our next report will take you to a high tech garment factory in the german city of mentioned, glad back. Run by clothing giant cna. Its taking a new approach to a clothing classic a pair of jeans being lent a distressed look without harmful chemicals. The laser device as part of a new high tech factory opened by clothing giant c in a in the german city of mentioned platform tasks previously seen to buy teams of people are now largely done by machines. The site has a human workforce of just 100, but its set to turn out 800000 pairs of jeans a year with all the power coming fr