00:00Some of the largest moving machines on earth are found in eastern Germany,
00:04but one of those has already been blown apart. This steel giant is slowly becoming extinct.
00:10The F-60 didn't just work in the coal pits, it ruled them. Only five of these giants were ever
00:15built. At 502 meters long and almost 80 meters tall, it was simply enormous. For decades,
00:22the overburden conveyor bridge tore open entire landscapes in Germany to reach coal seams almost
00:2890 meters deep below the surface. Bernhard Köchel has worked side by side with the F-60 for many
00:33years. Back then, east Germany was powered mostly through coal. He still remembers what went into
00:39bringing the F-60 to life. There are a lot of steel and other technical
00:44facilities. And there are a lot of generations of people who have earned their bread there and their
00:50families. This one was the first of the five. It has been running for
00:58more than 50 years. When its 43 buckets dig in, soil rises from the pit and drops into the next
01:04belt.
01:05Each second, the machine moves enough earth to fill a truck. 24,000 tons of steel crawls forward on
01:11rails. But the era of coal is ending. Germany is turning to renewable energy. One of these machines
01:16is now a museum. The challenge was, of course, to build a solar system in this size, in this
01:23capacity. As I mentioned, the physical limits of the steel mills have reached more, faster,
01:29higher, faster, faster. Even if it was going to continue with coal, it would not have a bigger
01:34device. The F-60 Köchel once worked with may soon have to be demolished too, as Germany races to phase
01:40out coal
01:40more, they would not be ro Shiny to figure the árbitrage communities in the day.
01:42So we will look at the next heat.
01:42decade.
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