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Engineering the Future

6 episodes 97%4KCC

Extraordinary machines race from concept to reality in a cleaner world.

See how determined engineers push technology to its limits as they build machines designed to change everyday life. From giant offshore wind farms to breakthroughs in aviation, shipping, tidal, and solar power, this season reveals the ideas, testing, and high-stakes problem solving behind a new industrial revolution. Sign up to watch innovation take shape at full scale.

Episode guide

6 episodes
1
1Wind
This film follows the race to generate vast power from thin air - the wind. One of the world’s biggest windfarms is being built off the English coast where the harsh conditions pose great challenges for the team. Meanwhile, a Norwegian team is striving to build the first-ever floating windfarm.
54 min
2
2Aviation
The way we fly is about to change, driven by a new breed of aviators not afraid to think differently. From clean, green electric aircraft to autonomous sky taxis, could the days of the jet age be numbered?
59 min
3
3Fusion
It's the greatest technological challenge ever undertaken by humankind. The quest to produce the ultimate energy solution: Fusion. It's been called 'bottling a star,' but the challenges are immense and the goal of a power-producing fusion reactor has remained elusive and out of reach—until now.
57 min
4
4Tidal
The power of the ocean’s tides is the last great untapped energy source on Earth. From sub-sea kites to floating platforms, teams of engineers are racing to perfect the technology to harness the vast flows of water.
57 min
5
5Maritime
If global shipping were a country it would be the sixth largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions. But shipping companies and engineers are creating remarkable new machines to make their industry greener, using a resource that has moved man across the world’s oceans for thousands of years…Wind.
52 min
6
6Solar
The sun is the biggest source of energy in the solar system. Innovators are searching for new ways to capture more of the sun’s power, and make it available through the night, everywhere.
53 min
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