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[00:00:09] Today, the storm affected only a part of the coast, tomorrow
[00:00:12] dangerous conditions are expected in Dalmatia, details revealed by
[00:00:16] meteorologist Tea Blažević.
[00:00:19] Warm greetings, dear viewers, a high-level weather alert is in
[00:00:22] effect, as we can see tomorrow even for the area of Dalmatia. Today,
[00:00:26] it rained most heavily in Gorski Kotar and Lika in the northern part of the central.
[00:00:30] but tomorrow and further south, so very rainy conditions are expected elsewhere in Dalmatia,
[00:00:34] especially concerning because of
[00:00:37] the burned area where there is less possibility of water absorption, so there is a danger
[00:00:40] of torrents. A frontal system is moving across our regions, so the
[00:00:44] atmosphere remains extremely unstable, so in the continuation of the evening
[00:00:47] and during the night there will be rain and showers predominantly in the west,
[00:00:52] and also helps improve a central interior, but it will also move further south,
[00:00:54] we see along the coast. Therefore, tomorrow also in the area of Dalmatia, even
[00:00:58] southern, central... locally possible
[00:01:02] storms. The wind will be light to moderate, northerly, northeasterly, only in the east,
[00:01:05] northwesterly, on the Adriatic moderate northwesterly in
[00:01:09] Dalmatia and southerly, but in the northern part it will be
[00:01:12] bora. These are the temperatures that await us tonight and tomorrow morning, it will be from
[00:01:15] 13 to 17 in the interior, on the Adriatic from 19 to 24, possibly in
[00:01:19] the far south maybe a little higher. As for
[00:01:23] tomorrow's values, it will be mainly from 24 to
[00:01:26] 29 at sea, so we expect refreshment there as well, in the interior
[00:01:30] from 18, mostly we see up to a maximum of 22,
[00:01:33] 23 in the far east. The weekend will
[00:01:37] bring a calming of the weather, a slight rise in
[00:01:39] temperatures again, but without any intense heat.
[00:01:43] We continue in this way into the new coming week,
[00:01:47] similar applies to the Adriatic coast, and here too the
[00:01:50] atmosphere will slowly calm down from
[00:01:52] Saturday, but here too without
[00:01:54] heat.
[00:01:57] Dear viewers, with this we have come to the end of today's
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[00:02:39] From building with wood to recycling
[00:02:42] concrete, the construction industry is looking for ways
[00:02:46] to reduce its massive carbon
[00:02:48] footprint,
[00:02:51] but it's still early days for change in the
[00:02:53] sector.
[00:02:57] One new sustainable approach and much more... coming up tomorrow
[00:03:01] today,
[00:03:06] could this soil be the answer to the construction sector's dirty little
[00:03:10] secret? We have to really speed up things
[00:03:14] and we have to drastically transform the way that we handle
[00:03:18] and consume resources on all
[00:03:19] levels.
[00:03:22] Every week a truck load of soil lands in an old aircraft hanger in
[00:03:25] Berlin. It looks just like regular dirt because it
[00:03:28] is, but squashed into blocks, it becomes something
[00:03:32] potentially revolutionary. Compared to traditional clay bricks,
[00:03:35] making the soil blocks emits 97% less carbon
[00:03:38] dioxide. A revolution is needed because in environmental
[00:03:42] terms the construction industry is filthy. The building
[00:03:46] sector is the world's biggest polluter. According to the
[00:03:49] UN, between 2024 and 2025, it accounted for
[00:03:52] 34% of total global CO2 emissions. Over the same
[00:03:56] time period, that's more than the automotive and aviation sectors.
[00:04:01] One reason is the way traditional building materials are made. To make
[00:04:05] them strong enough to use, clay bricks are baked in furnaces that hit temperatures
[00:04:09] exceeding 1,000° Celsius and they have to spend several days
[00:04:13] in the oven. Those kilns are typically powered by fossil
[00:04:16] fuels and release massive amounts of soot and carbon dioxide into the
[00:04:20] atmosphere.
[00:04:22] It's very cheaply and very fastly built with no intention of
[00:04:26] lasting longer than 40 to 50 years, which is insane.
[00:04:32] As soon as they're no longer wanted, buildings are often razed to the
[00:04:36] ground, and a lot of that debris just ends up in
[00:04:38] landfill.
[00:04:43] Christian Gayter Earthbound hopes his blocks could change
[00:04:46] this. The soil for them is taken from excavation waste, a
[00:04:50] construction site on the outskirts
[00:04:53] Supporters in Gustenhof hope for a of Berlin. Germany's federal environment agency reports demolition and construction waste like
[00:04:57] this comprises the country's biggest waste stream. But this earth has a
[00:05:00] different destiny. We were very interested in this
[00:05:04] sort of d-value chain of excavation material being moved from the
[00:05:08] construction site and then just deposited in landfill as a waste.
[00:05:12] So we thought there was great potential in actually using this
[00:05:15] resource. After reaching Christian's site, the soil
[00:05:18] is first dried and broken up, then mixed with a tiny bit of water
[00:05:22] and
[00:05:23] compressed.
[00:05:27] There's two things that really come together here. One is that the production
[00:05:31] process uh doesn't use any other chemical binders, which on
[00:05:35] the one hand means that it's very, very low in terms of CO2 emissions,
[00:05:39] and on the other hand, it also means that there are no toxic gases or
[00:05:42] any toxic substances released in the process. When a building is constructed from
[00:05:46] the material, the eco bricks compete with our traditional
[00:05:50] counterparts in terms of their ability to bear loads and can support
[00:05:54] building of up to 17 meters tall, four or five stories
[00:05:57] high. Each brick can withstand roughly 29 metric tons of
[00:06:01] pressure before breaking. That's roughly the weight of 15
[00:06:04] cars. The blocks can be laid with mortar and plaster also
[00:06:08] made from earth. Rooms in houses made from them are cooler and more.
[00:06:13] I really hope that we can sort of take on the conventional
[00:06:16] masonry um construction sector and substitute a significant
[00:06:20] share of what's nowadays built with carbon
[00:06:23] intensive and also materials that are not recyclable at the end of the
[00:06:27] life cycle with the earth blocks that we are producing which are
[00:06:30] 100% made from waste materials, uh very low in terms
[00:06:34] of CO2 emissions during the production, and at the end of the life
[00:06:37] cycle, most importantly, we can recycle them to new earth building
[00:06:41] products without any loss of value or without having to add any new
[00:06:45] materials.
[00:06:48] This is Siny Jensen, a researcher at the Natural Building Lab at Berlin's
[00:06:52] Technical University. She helped design Germany's first building
[00:06:56] to use recycled wood in load bearing capacity, but
[00:07:00] using reclaimed materials is only part of the picture. Every part of
[00:07:04] construction is always needing and you always extract
[00:07:07] new materials, you always invest more energy, you
[00:07:10] invest courses and and you also cause
[00:07:14] emissions and that's something I think we have to we have to keep in back our
[00:07:17] heads that even the most sustainable
[00:07:20] construction
[00:07:22] um is still causing all these things and um the
[00:07:26] the actual most sustainable kind of construction it's not constructing at
[00:07:29] all. Sena's project will be a minerals museum for her
[00:07:32] university. She hopes the use of secondhand wood will spur property
[00:07:36] developers to follow
[00:07:37] suit.
[00:07:40] I think what's also good about circular economy is that it's
[00:07:44] it's it's supporting also maybe the development of business
[00:07:47] models that are focusing more on refurbishment and more on
[00:07:51] transformation instead of new construction and
[00:07:54] demolition, so this may be also then an opportunity to
[00:07:57] drive um industries and and
[00:08:00] economic economies into a more sustainable
[00:08:04] direction.
[00:08:06] Preventing demolition, repurposing buildings and using eco-friendly
[00:08:09] materials are hallmarks of circular construction.
[00:08:14] At scale, the practices could help sustainably house the
[00:08:17] 2.5 billion more people, the UN says, who will live in
[00:08:21] urban areas by
[00:08:22] 2050,
[00:08:26] but what about air quality in those cities? There are
[00:08:30] different ways to improve it, one of them surprisingly
[00:08:33] simple.
[00:08:38] J Chen from the Technical University of Munich and her
[00:08:41] colleague are in
[00:08:44] one of the city's parks. Over the course of
[00:08:48] several months, they've been taking measurements here and elsewhere in
[00:08:51] Munich to verify their calculations.
[00:08:55] They showed that urban green
[00:08:56] spaces can absorb
[00:09:02] We found that urban vegetation in Munich offsets about
[00:09:06] 2% of the annual human-induced
[00:09:10] carbon emissions produced by the city.
[00:09:42] Gas is released back into the atmosphere through soil
[00:09:46] respiration. Their findings show that over the course
[00:09:50] of a year, lawns are actually a net source of
[00:09:53] CO2, contributing more emissions than they
[00:09:56] remove. Trees are more effective carbon
[00:10:00] stores, while shrubs and bushes can also offset at
[00:10:03] least part of a city's
[00:10:05] emissions.
[00:10:08] We also developed a model to determine the flow of
[00:10:12] of it as a map showing exactly where in the city CO2 is being taken up and where it's being. CO2. In other words, where carbon dioxide is absorbed and where
[00:10:17] think it's emitted. You can
[00:10:55] and they have positive psychological effects. My
[00:10:59] children are always happier when they're outside and green
[00:11:02] spaces.
[00:11:03] Yeah,
[00:11:06] her recommendation, city planners should pay more
[00:11:10] attention to urban greenery. It improves
[00:11:13] the quality of life for residents
[00:11:17] city's carbon
[00:11:18] balance.
[00:11:22] Barcelona showed it can work.
[00:11:26] Paris, Vienna,
[00:11:28] London and Gent in Belgium followed
[00:11:31] suit. Now it's the German city of Nurenburg's turn to
[00:11:34] experiment with super blocks, where standard city
[00:11:38] blocks are grouped into zones that emphasize car-free public
[00:11:41] spaces.
[00:11:44] A jungle gym going up a playground in
[00:11:47] Nurenburg. Gohanfedda is a member of an
[00:11:50] initiative to reshape the Gustenhoff neighborhood.
[00:11:54] The city supports.
[00:12:25] A community picnic in the middle of the street would have been
[00:12:28] impossible. Now people meet up here to
[00:12:32] chat.
[00:12:35] has been living here for over 20
[00:12:36] years.
[00:12:42] It creates new space for people who don't have a garden or a
[00:12:46] balcony.
[00:12:48] You especially notice it on streets where many families with immigrant
[00:12:52] background conditions.
[00:13:32] Improving the quality of public spaces, making it more
[00:13:36] comfortable for people to spend time on their streets.
[00:13:40] That's why additional seating is being installed, with
[00:13:43] 59 parking spaces having been removed for the
[00:13:47] project.
[00:14:55] Car ownership declined over several years from
[00:14:58] 1.2 cars per household to roughly one car per
[00:15:02] household. These are effects that emerge when people
[00:15:05] rethink their habits in the medium to long term and then decide
[00:15:09] they may not actually need a car anymore because they use other means of
[00:15:13] transport.
[00:15:18] similar success story. They
[00:15:21] organized an association and raised over 7,000.
[00:16:07] Spend time outdoors, but how often are people actually out on
[00:16:11] their balconies? Maybe six months a year. After that,
[00:16:15] it grows too cold, so for half the year, the super block
[00:16:19] will probably just empty
[00:16:20] out.
[00:16:23] He wants representation for every interest group in the
[00:16:27] neighborhood.
[00:16:31] We need to look at what different social groups make up
[00:16:34] society here and perhaps set up a round table.
[00:18:39] And how are landscapes changing outside cities?
[00:18:42] Germany's countryside is no longer devoted just to
[00:18:45] farms. Renewable energy is now
[00:18:48] harvested there as well, and that can be
[00:18:51] controversial.
[00:18:53] Around 60 km east of Berlin, you'll find the Merka
[00:18:57] Schweiz, an idyllic nature park that's a popular
[00:19:00] recreational destination for the city's residents. The
[00:19:03] question is, for how much longer? Renewable energy
[00:19:07] developers are moving aggressively into the region. If
[00:19:11] investor plans move forward, large solar farms
[00:19:14] will be built along the park's edges.
[00:19:17] Opposition has been growing in the nearby town of
[00:19:21] where an initiative has stepped up its campaign against the
[00:19:25] project.
[00:19:27] We need the energy transition and we need to protect the climate, but we
[00:19:30] shouldn't be doing it everywhere and regardless of the cost.
[00:19:34] Some gems like nature parks need to be protected.
[00:20:08] day, together with his partner, Zama grows produce for the Berlin
[00:20:12] market. The farm was their dream, and
[00:20:16] one they had long pursued. The couple
[00:20:19] moved to Müncheberg 17 years ago to be as close as
[00:20:22] possible to nature. They use horses instead of
[00:20:26] tractors, that keeps the soil from compacting,
[00:20:29] allowing it to retain more water.
[00:20:33] Organic farming on 70 hectares,
[00:20:36] sustainable.
[00:21:28] We tried to speak with the investors about his accusations, but
[00:21:32] received no response. The
[00:21:34] utility company initially agreed to an interview, but
[00:21:38] later told us it had withdrawn from the
[00:21:40] project. For Yanzama, the playing field
[00:21:44] is anything but level. According to
[00:21:47] him, the investors offered his landlord,
[00:22:50] farmers, but to energy investors.
[00:22:52] Economist
[00:22:57] says the issue goes beyond just changes to the landscape,
[00:23:01] it's also about the energy transition creating winners and
[00:23:04] losers.
[00:23:07] For example, if someone leases land for a wind
[00:23:10] turbine, they can earn around 50,000 to 70,000 euros
[00:23:14] per turbine each year, simply by
[00:23:17] allowing the turbine to stand there. That's
[00:23:20] an excellent source of income. These
[00:23:24] landowners are beneficiaries of the energy transition, but
[00:23:28] someone also loses out, the farmer who doesn't own land and
[00:23:31] has to lease it.
[00:23:34] Yan Zoma hopes his landlord will reject the
[00:23:37] investor's offer and allow him to stay on the farm,
[00:23:41] and he'll continue fighting to leave the nature park as it
[00:23:44] is. Why, he asks, should solar arrays be
[00:23:48] built in a protected area?
[00:23:51] The beauty of solar power is that the panels don't care where
[00:23:54] they are, they just need to face the sun. That means
[00:23:58] renewable electricity can be generated on sealed
[00:24:01] surfaces, rooftops and parking lots. There
[00:24:04] they don't cause problems, on the
[00:24:06] contrary.
[00:24:09] Officials in Müncheberg say they're carefully reviewing all the
[00:24:13] arguments and that a decision has yet to be taken.
[00:24:16] Conservationists.
[00:25:20] Also means agricultural businesses need to
[00:25:23] consider how they can use the land they own, I'm
[00:25:26] specifically talking about land owned by farmers to strengthen their
[00:25:30] economic stability, and that
[00:25:33] can include investing in renewable energy.
[00:25:36] Investition in erneuerbare
[00:25:38] Energien.
[00:25:44] Land ownership plays a crucial role in the issue, both for
[00:25:48] him and energy
[00:25:51] transition.
[00:25:56] Speaking of renewable energy, here's a great
[00:25:59] question from our viewer in
[00:26:02] Ghana.
[00:26:06] How do solar panels
[00:26:07] work?
[00:26:10] Solar panels, also called solar modules, are made up of a
[00:26:14] number of solar cells linked together. About
[00:26:17] 95% of all solar cells are currently made from
[00:26:21] silicon obtained from quartz sand. It's
[00:26:24] melted and cleaned in a complex process. The
[00:26:27] resulting silicon is cut into thin slices called
[00:26:30] wafers. To make the cell electrically conductive, the
[00:26:34] silicon is intentionally contaminated or
[00:26:37] doped, some wafers with
[00:26:39] boron, others with
[00:26:41] phosphorus.
[00:26:44] When the wafers doped with boron and phosphorus are placed
[00:26:47] together, excess electrons migrate from the
[00:26:50] phosphorus silicone layer into the boron silicone
[00:26:53] layer. This leads to a surplus of electrons at the
[00:26:56] bottom and a shortage of them at the top. Similar to a
[00:27:00] battery, solar cells have positive and negative
[00:27:03] poles. When sunlight strikes the cell,
[00:27:06] electrons are released in the silicon boron layer.
[00:27:10] Since they're negatively charged, they're drawn to the
[00:27:13] positive pole. Solar cells also have metallic
[00:27:16] conductors at their top and bottom. The free
[00:27:19] electrons travel along these tracks, generating an electrical
[00:27:22] current as long as the sun is
[00:27:24] shining.
[00:27:30] When more light strikes the surface, power is
[00:27:33] generated. To increase yield, solar modules are
[00:27:36] usually connected in series and linked up to form larger
[00:27:40] systems. But even small modules can generate
[00:27:44] enough electricity for everyday needs. More than
[00:27:47] 11% of all renewable energy already comes from solar
[00:27:51] energy, increasing trend. It's a form of
[00:27:55] energy with almost infinite
[00:27:57] potential.
[00:28:01] What are stars made of? How many colors
[00:28:04] can butterflies see?
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[00:28:26] That's all we have time for, but we hope to see you again soon tomorrow
[00:28:30] today. Bye for now.
[00:30:19] For five weeks, one film remains at the top of the
[00:30:22] most-watched list. New films arriving still don't have
[00:30:26] a chance to dethrone it, and the earnings are
[00:30:29] dizzying, almost 2.5 billion dollars.
[00:30:32] Welcome to the Movie Top 10 channel
[00:30:35] N1. This is what the current
[00:30:39] American box office
[00:30:40] list looks like.