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Added on the 10/01/2023 15:59:22 - Copyright : Euronews EN
In the midst of the energy crisis gripping France, this farmer is using his land in innovative ways to produce electricity.
''Changing the world starts in the toilet'': That is the motto of French start-up Toopi Organics, which specialises in the collection and recycling of human urine. Since 2019, it has been collecting urine at festivals, motorway service stations and theme parks and transforming it into biofertiliser, providing farmers with an ecological alternative to chemical fertilisers. FRANCE 24 visited a collection site as well as a production site where the raw human urine is processed and turned into a product its creators hope could revolutionise agriculture.
Tens of thousands of solar panels ended up in landfill every year in Australia...until now.
The small town has built three turbines on its river, insulated its municipal buildings and installed photovoltaic solar panels on the roofs of several buildings.
Seventeen years ago, Spain’s socialist government decided to inject subsidies into renewable energy. As a result, thousands of Spanish families massively invested in photovoltaic energy. But, as you'll see in our report, the dream rapidly turned into a nightmare.
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