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Wild Australia - part 5: 13.11.2009
Anyone planning to visit Australia should reconsider – it’s just way too dangerous. Right? A series on the Australian fauna, based on the book ‘Gefährliches Australian’, by Barbara Barkhausen (Mana-Verlag).
What’s the deadliest animal in Australia, even the world? It’s the Box Jellyfish. Patrick Wauthier speaks to Jamie Seymour, one of Australia’s foremost experts on jellyfish, and learns to see through this venomous creature.
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Wild Australia - part 4: 6.11.2009
Anyone planning to visit Australia should reconsider – it’s just way too dangerous. Right? A series on the Australian fauna, based on the book ‘Gefährliches Australian’, by Barbara Barkhausen (Mana-Verlag).
How to get bitten by a snake, and live to tell the tale? In the fourth part Peter Mirtschin explains how, in an interview with Christian Froelicher.
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Wild Australia - part 3: 6.11.2009
Anyone planning to visit Australia should reconsider – it’s just way too dangerous. Right? A series on the Australian fauna, based on the book ‘Gefährliches Australian’, by Barbara Barkhausen (Mana-Verlag).
In the third part, Christian Froelicher finds his way through snake territory, with the help of snake expert Peter Mirtschin.
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Wild Australia - part 2: 6.11.2009
Anyone planning to visit Australia should reconsider – it’s just way too dangerous. Right? A series on the Australian fauna, based on the book ‘Gefährliches Australian’, by Barbara Barkhausen (Mana-Verlag).
Can you milk a spider? Expert Joel Shakespeare explains how, in the second part of the series with Kathleen Wächter.
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Wild Australia - part 1: 6.11.2009
Anyone planning to visit Australia should reconsider – it’s just way too dangerous. Right? A series on the Australian fauna, based on the book ‘Gefährliches Australian’, by Barbara Barkhausen (Mana-Verlag).
In the first part, Kathleen Wächter finds out about one of the most dangerous spiders on earth.
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Focus on: Renewable Energies: 14.10.2009
Renewable energies are the most prominent way out of the climate conundrum. But they require significant financial and political investment. What is the power-source of the future? How future-proof is Australia with its reliance on its massive brown coal reserves? We spoke to two experts, with two opinions: Energy expert Sven Teske, and Thomas Lautsch, spokesman for “Clean Coal” technology with European energy giant Vattenfall. Interviews: Oliver Heuthe. Host: Christian Froelicher.
Photo: Thomas Lautsch
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Energy efficiency - chic or affordable?: 14.10.2009
Energy efficiency is a buzz word – experts love it, politicians use it, some industries fear it, while others build their future on the concept. (Some) German industries are among the leading developers of energy efficient technologies. But are these technologies finding customers? Oliver Heuthe spoke to industry expert Jan Benjamin Spitzley about efficiency, the economic crisis and the future. Spitzley works for the German company Eclareon GmbH, and is responsible for the promotion of German technology exports.
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Energy efficient building: 7.10.2009
The idea has long been turned into a number of legal standards in Europe – but in Australia, energy efficient building is only just getting onto the agenda. A recent conference in Melbourne aimed to continue that process. One of the guests was the German government’s commissioner for energy and energy efficiency in the building industry, Dr. Olaf Boettcher. Surveying the state of Australian building and insulation standards, Boettcher finds what experts describe as “shed climate” in a majority of living quarters. Oliver Heuthe spoke to Boettcher about materials of the future, micro climate, and whether the German legislative is acting as decisively as it should on the issue, itself.
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Passive houses: 7.10.2009
One of the most promising concepts in energy efficient building is the so called “passive house” – a house that cools and warms itself sufficiently without requiring any significant energy input. Oliver Heuthe spoke to one of the pioneers of the concept, German architect Ludwig Rongen from the University of Erfurt.
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Metropolis Australia - Sydney: 4.9.2009
What will the growing Australian cities of the future look like, and how will we live in them? How can the big challenges they face be met? - In part ten of our series “Metropolis Australia”, Wolfgang Müller surveys Australia’s most populous city - Sydney.
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