Dr. Terry McGrail:

In the second half of last year, it invested €1.5 billion in composites research in different research centres. I was in Berlin on Monday of this week, talking to people there. They are very advanced in making what we call hybrid materials, which are a combination of a composite material with metal, so one uses much less metal than composite to stiffen the material and finish up with a material that is much lighter but which can also be conventionally processed by welding, for example, so people are very interested in that. I mentioned biogas from agricultural waste. A substantial amount of biogas can be generated by so-called anaerobic digestion. Biogas is essentially carbon neutral because one creates the gas this year, burns it in a car or power station and the carbon dioxide is absorbed by the crops next year. It is a cyclical process. Germany is installing biodigesters in farms, small communities and so on. It is a long way ahead of us.