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What is energy?

Scenic tours

The circumference of the largest working open-cast mine in Europe is some 40 kilometres long. Electricity is produced for the east of Germany with the coal mined here and the countryside is thus "consumed" on a grand scale. If you stand at the edge of the pit, you can experience first-hand what impact it has on the town and the people of Welzow when a light is switched on a living room in Berlin, for example, and what even your life has to do with Welzow and Lusatia. The obvious thing to do at this moving place is to broaden the issue of energy generation beyond the conversion of coal, crude oil, uranium and biomass into electricity. Take a tour and meet people who are forging new paths to produce life energy for their future.

Some stops on the tours:
The open-cast mine
A village turned ghost town
A biographical odyssey
A transitional landscape in the forest clearance zone
A disused machine room and an idea