Can returning ash to the forest make up for what we take out? Benjamin explains why chipping whole young trees for energy removes more nutrients than most people expect, how ash from wood-fired power plants can put much of the mineral content back, and why on poor, sandy soils the point may be less about growing more wood and more about not running the soil down.
Anton then brings a German Army Enigma message from 1941 that had resisted every attempt to read it since it was published online in 2005, until an AI model picked it out, did its own research and recovered the key in about two days. That takes us to Alan Turing and to what these demonstrations are really for.
Rasmus follows Starship into orbit for the first time, carrying a new generation of Starlink satellites, and we talk about what better connectivity could mean in places like the forest.
Finally, Jens brings a study of how forestry companies use GIS, where the bottleneck turns out to be leadership and culture rather than technology. From there, we ask whether chat-style AI interfaces could make complex software easier to adopt, and what will still take a forest manager.
Pull up a chair and listen in.
