Islands of the Future
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201660 minEncerrada

Islands of the Future

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S01E05 - "Iceland - Green Paradise at the Crossroads"

Foi ao ar em Apr 29, 2016, 11:30 PM

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Amid rising oil and gas prices and dwindling resources, tiny islands off the coast of Europe are rethinking the future of energy.

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Status
Encerrada
Idioma
English
Duração
60 min
Estreia
April 1, 2016
Encerrada
April 29, 2016
Programação
Friday às 19:30

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Episódios (1 Temporada · 5 Episódios)

El Hierro - Visionaries at the End of the World

The sun-drenched Canary island of El Hierro produces most of its electricity from wind. In order to have electricity on calm days, the island came up with an ingenious solution: an inactive volcano crater is now a pumped-storage power plant.

Apr 1, 2016

60 min

Orkney - The Blue Revolution

A look at how the Orkney Islands north of Scotland have taken a different route to energy production, focusing on the town of Stromness, where for over a decade, the potential of wave and tidal power has been investigated.

Apr 8, 2016

60 min

Madeira - The Struggle for Water and Power

A look at an ingenious energy solution on the Portuguese island of Madeira in the Atlantic, where the inhabitants are converting an irrigation system from the 15th century into a future-age energy storage facility.

Apr 15, 2016

60 min

Samso - The Community of Power

How Samso in the Baltic became the energy paragon among Europe's islands. The 4,000 inhabitants decided to take the matter of energy supply into their own hands, using wind turbines and straw-fuelled thermal power stations.

Apr 22, 2016

60 min

Iceland - Green Paradise at the Crossroads

Volcanic hydropower and geothermal energy meet nearly 100 percent of Iceland's electricity and heating demands, but the inhabitants aren't stopping there. Iceland intends to run all cars and its enormous fishing fleet on hydrogen.

Apr 29, 2016

60 min

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