Month: May 2025

Volkswagen has put $ 6,000 million in Rivian to grow in the United States. Tariffs are truncating their plans

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At the end of 2024, Volkswagen confirmed that Inject almost 6,000 million dollars In Rivian. During the previous summerThe Germans announced that they invested 5,000 million dollars in the US car and electric vans company. Then they defended this measure within a generalized adjustment Within the company as the way to gain presence in the United States and, at the same time, learn in software matter of what is worked on the other side of the puddle. An especially important facet for Germans who have been looking for alternatives in other companies, including China Xpeng. Almost a year ago, in Volkswagen they claimed that this decision would allow them increase your sales in the United Statesa country where the company has more problems to satisfy a market that demands huge vehicles whose production is available for a hand for the Germans. That promise, to continue growing in sales, was especially important in the Context of cuts mentioned above. In fact, the workers’ representatives came to wonder what guarantees were that the last and new party committed was not A new way of burning another 1 billion dollars. To this difficult situation, Donald Trump’s tariffs have been added. The commercial barriers of the new president of the United States have led Volkswagen to look for solutions to alleviate economic damage to their finances. From having hundreds of audi units stops on the border until a conversion of one of their plants In the country. Now, Rivian already adjusts his sales goals. Down. The excuse is the tariffs Rivian should deliver 51,000 units of their cars, pick-up and electric vans at the end of the year. But he already announces that he will not fulfill the plans. The figure has been adjusted downwards, reducing forecasts between 10 and 20%. According to their new accounts, they will put in the market Between 40,000 and 46,000 vehicles. They ensure that the reason is the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump’s government in the United States. Collect in Bloomberg that the company manufactures all its cars in the country and that the vast majority of the pieces are also local but that they warn that the company “is not immune to the impacts of world trade and the economic environment.” Of course, the company ensures that it can meet the objective of offering a gross benefit at the end of the year. Once taxes and other items are discounted, Most likely, Rivian continues to give losses. Tariffs are assuming a real headache for the industry and even is a problem for who manufacture in the United States. Tesla, for example, is the company that Less impact will suffer With these commercial barriers but Elon Musk himself wanted to make it clear that They were also affected by them. Giants like Ford or General Motors have been Looking for formulas To alleviate the economic blow to its accounts but the situation is especially complicated for two types of companies: those that export to the country most of its production or pieces (such as Japanese and Europeans) or those of smaller. The largest companies have giving way to a stock they had already accumulated. Applying great discountsit is certain that they have not achieved the benefits per unit that they would expect but at least it has allowed them to move forward until knowing the possible new conditions. However, for small companies such as Rivian the situation is much more complicated. We have already counted to start a car company forces to lose money for years and that it is only sustainable if other companies and Investors They are willing to Leave your money until you see benefits. In this case, a commercial sway is much more pronounced than in any other situation. Now, Volkswagen has no choice but to maintain the road map and continue supporting Rivian although the economic context that makes it even more complicated. The Germans aspired to learn their company from this company Secrets around softwarea division that is Bringing the entire Volkswagen Group and? He already expelled some of his CEO. Photo | In Xataka | The sensitive data of 800,000 electric cars from Volkswagen have leaked: from homes to the routines of its owners

We have been asking if the eggs are good or bad for our health. The tests are very forceful

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It is a debate that we have surely heard countless times, that of how good or bad that eggs result for our health. It is a setback, the evidence that eggs are “bad” is limited and has been refuted by various studies, but still the issue remains the subject of new studies. Studies that continue to insist on the usual consumption of eggs does not represent a risk additional. Another study on the list. A recent study of mortality associated with egg consumption has not observed indications of an increase in mortality associated with egg consumption. Moreover, the study found an inverse relationship between the regular consumption of this food and the risk of deaths linked to cardiovascular diseases. The study He followed up of 8,756 over 70 years of age, which gave information about their diets. Based on this information, the team separated the participants in three groups: who did not consume eggs or did it shortly, those who consumed eggs between one and six times a day, and those who consumed eggs daily. Verdict. The study results indicated that people in the moderate consumption group had a risk of mortality by 15% lower than those of the low consumption group, controlling other factors. They also observed a 29% reduction associated with specific mortality due to heart disease. Of egg aspirin. The study was framed in the ASPREE project (Aspirin in rear Events in the Elderly), curiously, a project dedicated to the study of the effects of aspirin in preventive medicine. The details of the study have been published In an article In the magazine Nutrients. But they didn’t have cholesterol? “Eggs are a dense food in nutrients, they are a rich source of protein and a good source of nutrients, such as B vitamins, folate, non -saturated fatty acids, fat -solub vitamins (E, D, a, and k), hill, and numerous minerals and trace elements,” explained in a press release Holly Wild, co -author of the study. However, the eggs won a bad reputation due to their cholesterol content. Each egg has about 275 milligrams of cholesterol, which would represent almost the entire recommended amount of cholesterol, they explain In an article for The conversation Lauren Ball and Karly Bartrim, experts from the University of Queensland, in Australia. The trick is in absorption, Ball and Bartrim point out. And it is that the fact that we consummate a food with high cholesterol content does not mean that our body will absorb that cholesterol and make it end in the bloodstream, where it can imply a risk. This is the advance. The debate on the hypothetical damage that eggs may be a health risk has been perpetuated for years has often been used to discredit advances made in the field of nutrition. And it is true that the science that studies nutrients and their effects on our body is complex: the varied of the human diet and the immense complexity of our body are two factors that make extremely difficult to measure the effects of some foods on our health. It is not surprising Therefore we can occasionally run into this type of debates. The contradictory results are not alien to any field of science: there are many reasons why a study can yield erroneous results, such as methodological failures, calculation errors or even by mere statistical chance. That is why relationships must be studied several occasions, by different teams and following a variety of methods, this is how failures and erroneous relationships have been detected on several occasions. It is how the method itself should work. In Xataka | White eggs have disappeared from our supermarkets: the story of how brown was commercially imposed Image | Morgane Perraud

Spanish bank has made a “confiscatory” tax in Confetti for its party: 8.4 billion benefits

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8,487 million euros. That is the joint benefit of the six great banks quoted in Spain during the first quarter of 2025. 27% more than a year ago, according to The economist. The most striking thing is that they have achieved it in full application of the extraordinary government of the Government, to which They called “Confiscator”, “disproportionate” and “harmful to the stability of the financial system.” That tax has ended up being a mere accounting score. A cost that can be moved, adjust, deduce. In summary: overcome. Why is it important. Because it shows a historical constant: when trying extraordinary to financial power, it reacts extraordinarily effectively. And because he talks about systemic inequality: a citizen cannot choose when and how to pay their taxes, but a bank does. And you can even earn more money along the way. In detail. Of the 1.4 billion euros that the bank tax was supposedly costing this year, only 351 million have impacted the first quarter accounts. Not because it has been repealed. But because this year is prorated. The regulations allow deductions of up to 25% of the tax base, a circumstance that financial entities have taken advantage of to optimize their results. Bankinterdirectly, will not pay anything this year or the one that comes. Thanks to the deductions of the Corporation Tax, its fiscal invoice has been zero. CaixaBankthat does pay, it is almost the one that wins the most: +46.2% benefit. He Santander It reduces its tax burden of 74%, and earns 3,402 million. And the BBVAin a context of downward types, its results improves 22.7%. Between bambalins. The strategy is double: accountant and narrative. Accounting, the tax is fractional and make up with deductions. Narratively, the sector projected a resistance image. But the reality is that the tax has not altered the fundamental: Has not stopped profitability (Rote up to 20%). It has not reduced dividends. The business trend has not changed: in Spain, banks grow 48%. The banks expressed concern about the impact, but the adaptation of their fiscal strategies has considerably damping the effect they had planned. The backdrop. In 2024, The tax was loadedand the bank raised his voice. But since then they have learned to manage it. The new design gives them air. A “fiscal air” that allows them to continue flying although in theory they carry ballast in the form of extra tax load. In addition, this fiscal relief more than compensates for the setback in the margin of interest, which falls 3.95% due to the decrease of types. But The gross margin rises 8.31%thanks especially to commissions … already the aforementioned tax adjustments. In perspective. While the general economy looks at the Iribor of side and keeps inflation, the banking sector demonstrates adaptation to the fiscal environment. They have not only avoided the coup, but continue to meet objectives before shareholders and investors. And incidentally, they leave a message to the markets: not even before a sudden tax its benefits are stopped. Outstanding image | BBVA In Xataka | The sweet moment of Revolut: Duplicates his profits in 2024 and aspires to become a whole rule

We already have a rigorous study of the impact of US tariffs on the technology we buy. It is shocking

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The tariffs you are currently preparing The US government led by Donald Trump have American technology companies in suspense. In the middle of last April the US Customs and Border Protection Office He published a statement in which he officialized that some electronic devices and strategic components were tariff exempt. Of all of them. However, it is a strictly temporary measure, so presumably in the future tariffs will reach the consumer electronics industries and semiconductors. The US Technology Consumers Association (known as CTA for its English denomination) has published a very detailed report which has been prepared by Trade Partnership Worldwide (TPW), a consultant specializing in economic and commerce analysis. This study evaluates The foreseeable impact that tariffs They will have electronic consumer devices, and their conclusions are shocking. Two notes to get into flour: according to TPW, the Gross Domestic Product of the US will be reduced by 69,000 million dollars annually as a result of tariffs and consumers will spend 123,000 million less a year. The price of technology will increase between 11 and 70%, according to TPW Before moving forward it is important that we keep in mind that the study of this consultant describes a scenario in which the 90 -day suspension of the tariffs executed by the US administration ends in July and the highest taxes announced by the government led by Donald Trump are activated. This scenario is perfectly possible, hence the interest of this report, but at the situation of current instability it is also feasible that finally The announced measures are not implanted as the US government has foreshadowed. Video game consoles would be the most affected because most of them are manufactured in China Anyway, as I have anticipated a few lines above, the conclusions that TPW collects and those that CTA has given visibility are very worrying. According to this report, the average retail price of mobile phones will increase by 31%; that of the monitors, 32%; that of laptops and tablets, 34%; and that of video game consoles nothing less than 69%. The desktop PCs would not be released from an increase in their price close to 24%. Video game consoles would be the most harmed because most of them are manufactured in China, so they will presumably be subject to 145%tariffs. If so, according to TPW, imports in the US would fall by 71%. This almost apocalyptic scenario from a commercial point of view describes the impact that tariffs will have on the pocket of US consumers, but it is reasonable that we ask ourselves what will happen to US products that we will buy in Spain or other European countries. The most reasonable conclusion we can reach is that its price will also be increased by two reasons that run in parallel. On the one hand if US companies must assume higher costs due to the need to import components or manufacture abroad, prices of their products They will rise throughout the planet. And also If Europe decides to apply reciprocal tariffs To the imported products from the US, which currently seems most likely, again European consumers will pay more. We will see what happens finally, but the panorama is certainly not flattering. More information | TPW/CTA In Xataka | Tariffs force Apple to manufacture US iPhone in India. It is not a problem: it is a tactic with many advantages and few fissures

why technology has not yet solved this

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Today tickets for Bad Bunny concerts went on sale. What should have been a happy day for fans It has become a nightmare. Many complained in networks of the error messages In the browser, the endless virtual linesthe Forced interruptions of the process or the worst, the messages of “exhausted entries” –or error– when They caressed success In that mission impossible. We are in 2025 and one would expect technology to have fixed this. And yet, he has not done so. What is happening? SALE BY ARRIVAL ORDER = Frustration. Traditional ticket sales systems work under an old and theoretically simple principle: the first one that arrives is the first to buy it. In computer science this is known as the FIFO (First In, First out) system for the implementation and management of queues, and has no major mystery. Or at least, not until you try to apply it to the sale of macroeventos tickets. Then, disaster. Too much demand. We have experienced it today when tickets for the concerts of the Bad Bunny world tour have come to sale. The demand has been colossal and has exceeded the offer, which has caused the service that managed the direct online sale has collapsed. Error messages were constant, and many users saw how they had to wait endless virtual lines And the process was interrupted at totally random times without them being able to do anything. When virtual tails reach figures of 15,000 users – for example, there are much more crazy– The system ceases to make sense. It is not useful or operational. He “Scalping“At the agenda. This stock market It is applied too In these scenarios and refers to the technique of buying tickets with bots and other systems that allow the limits imposed on entries for inputs for human users. Ticketmaster even created the Fan-To-Fan system As a controversial official controversy blessed by the system that Tickemaster, of course, takes its commission. It is estimated that Ticketmaster and Live Nation They control 70% of the business of the sale of tickets. And more problems with resale. There is an entire economy Around pages like Viago or Stubhub, which They buy mass tickets and then try to resell at greater price. The German Heavy Metal Rammstein Group went to court When demanding Viagogo, a company with which they have been fighting since 2018 for this issue. It happened with Renfe tickets. In April 2022 Renfe offered bird tickets to 15 euros. The promotion was striking, so I threw myself to the browser of my PC to try to take advantage of some of the options they gave me. After achieving access to virtual tail to buy one of those tickets, I met 166,321 people in front of me and an estimate of waiting time for an hour and a half. Half an hour later there were 144,115 people in front. The alternative was to use Renfe’s mobile app, but the process made it clear that these types of problems are constantly presented. The raffles work. In popular events such as Cycotourist march QH (Quebrantahuesos) The fans who want to sign up must first register as QH users, something that gives access to a raffle granted by the dorsals. It is a very reasonable solution to events with a demand greater than the supply. It is the method that also FIFA has used for years To sell tickets for football World Cup matches. The solution exists, only that it does not apply (much). It is a good example of a relatively simple system to solve the problems that have arisen with Ticketmaster on numerous occasions. The process would be as follows: Open a pre -registration to enter the raffle of entries. Leave it open for a prudential time of, for example, two weeks. There would be no careers for entering the pre -registration or being the first, because that would give exactly the same. Therefore, server overload risks are minimized. During that pre -registration the user must overcome Captcha challenges, double verification against email and storage of some credit card data. With this, the participation of bots in the process is greatly prevented. Payment of a symbolic commission for the pre -registration. Another very powerful measure to avoid the participation of bots. There should also be a limit for the number of records that can be made per person/mail/payment card. From there the draw is celebrated, which is granted X inputs from the number Y Registry. If there are 1000 tickets available and there are 10,000 pointed users, an example would be for the draw to come out number 6,713. The records from 6,713 to 7,712 would get their entrance. The winners could register in their account and buy the entry into a certain period. If not, that entry would be offered to the next one who could not obtain it after the draw, and so on. There would be no frustration, just bad luck. The draw or lottery process is much less frustrating. Of course there is the possibility that you do not get the entrance, but a system like this would avoid the great problems of the current direct sales mechanism that has proven not to be effective. But they do not decide the sustained. There is another big additional problem, and although there are solutions such as the proposal, who decide how entries are sold and buy are artists and promoters, who can go to alternative solutions. Concerts on demand. For example, Announce additional dates of concerts by surprise. It is a peculiar idea: it is thus possible to announce a limited number of concerts to measure demand, and from there adjust the offer keeping the number of events (if they can be replicated) programmed or changing it according to said demand. In Xataka | Taylor Swift has canceled the sale of tickets with Ticketmaster. It is the confirmation that the current system is broken

The DGT has been pressing a five years against Waze or Google Maps. Your solution goes through copying the French model

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“You don’t know who you warn.” With these words, the DGT warned of the danger of giving the alarm of a traffic control through our mobile phone. It is no accident that The article It will be published in November 2024. The article clarifies the entire phenomenon seen with the one known as “Galician Method”. Last year, a person was denounced for alert 15,000 drivers through messages in a WhatsApp group of Civil Guard controls on the road. The problem is that There is no rule in the circulation code that prevents it. In the last decade, drivers have been perfecting the notices. The DGT points out that in 2012 some applications were already alerted to radars or controls but that the first boom came in 2014 with SocialDrive and Waze. Users had, in real time, information about fixed radars (That the public DGT itself) but also of mobile phones and controls. The second boom came with the Coronavirus pandemic. With the increase in road controls, users multiplied and since then many have climbed into a car from which they no longer get off. Who aspires to skip a Civil Guard control has the tools for it in Google Maps, Waze and even WhatsApp. And that is a real problem if we talk about alcohol and drug controls but also if, for a reason for general security, a device has been mounted to stop the suspect of a crime. Trying to put containment barriers, the Citizen Security Law to try to stop those WhatsApp groups with thousands of users. It is something that the DGT itself recognizes that states that in article 36.23 it is expressly prohibited “the unauthorized use of personal or professional data or professionals of authorities or members of the security forces and bodies that may endanger personal security.” However, they recognize that it is not enough and has been pressed to carry out a modification in the Traffic Law. At the moment, all that there is a proposal for the proposition of the Law born in the Commission on Road Safety of the Congress of Deputies at the proposal of the PSOE. It requested that the text reflect the obligation to “sanction those who provide information that hinders or prevents the control work of breaches of circulation standards”. In France it already applies This new wording would serve to end current doubts. The closest thing to receive a sanction for notifying the Civil Guard control is found in article 100 of the Civil Guard GENERAL CIRCULATION REGULATIONwhere the following is exposed: The use of long -range or road light is prohibited as long as the vehicle is stopped or parked, as well as alternative employment, in the form of flashes of long -range or road light and light or crossing light, with purposes other than those provided in these regulations The problem, obviously, is that this analog acting has been disused. This has led to the DGT has press and emphasize in the last five years that their intention is to chase those who use these applications to notify the controls. In 2020, Pere Navarro, director of the DGT, already put the focus on applications during mobility week in A Coruña where he pointed out his will to “Prevent, hinder or limit” Applications like Waze. The referent can have it in France. There, the famous traffic application cannot show mobile radars to users. It is an anomaly in Europe, as they collect in the Gauling country media. They point out that there the decree No. 2012-3 of January 3, 2012, which modified its circulation code more than a decade prohibits “Possession, transport and use of radar detectors”. However, this application extends to mobile applications, something that does not happen in Spain. Here, The law was modified in 2022 To punish the single presence of a radar detector. Until then the use of radar inhibitors and detectors was punished. For three years, the single presence of these devices is also punished with Fines of 200 euros and three points of the driving card for detectors and six points and up to 6,000 euros in the case of inhibitors. What the DGT wants to get is that the notices in mobile applications are also punished and the first step would be the modification in the traffic law that would allow copying the French model. What applications like Waze do is alert “danger zones”. To skip the restriction, the application allows you to add this notice on road sections, never in a specific position. With this notice, the driver already knows that a mobile radar or traffic control will be found later but is not specified in any case to stick or where it is installed. Photo | Waze on Instagram and Pricob ioan In Xataka | The DGT denounces the breakage of seven radars: there are up to half a million euros at stake and three -year jail sentences

The April Fair has served for years for people to record drunken people. There is a problem: fines

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The April Fair from Seville it is usually synonymous with party, music, dance, rebujito, costumes and fun, but also of another trend that It has been worrying time to the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia (Fall): The #Papagorda. That said hashtag may not tell you much (or yes), but if you usually move by X, Instagram, YouTube or especially Tiktok it is likely that its content is familiar to you. Basically it consists of the publication of photos and videos of people in more or less pregnant situations after having passed with the glasses. What has been a good #Papagorda. The trend arose in 2019, during the Seville Fair, and since then it has generated a huge amount of material that circulates through the networks. The problem, like It has just recoded the caais that that can have legal consequences. Who is not going to like a good #Papagorda? The trend is not new. Your hashtag neither. Before even pandemic, during The 2019 Seville Fairbegan to circulate on Twitter (now x) a label that accompanied photos and videos that show people with one (or several) more glasses. Which? #Papagorda. The concept and the trend triumphed and since then they have been replicating year after years. During the April 2022 fair the hashtag #Papagorda22 was popular, the following year was #Papagorda23 and so on until reaching the current #Papagorda25. And what is the problem? That as the CAA remembered A report Published in 2024 the intention of these videos and images is to “mock” its protagonists, which is often recorded without their consent. And that is a problem. So much that the CAA already launched in July 2024 A warning On the legal implications of sharing that kind of material in networks and has done it again Now taking advantage The beginning of the Seville Fair. In A statement Rotundo The organism warns that moving funny and sharing certain content can leave expensive to its authors, carrying legal responsibilities and fines. Why’s that? Because one thing is that the involved is recorded and then upload the video to Tiktok (or allow others to do) and another very different is to act behind them. “The use of networks for the distribution of videos of anonymous people recorded in a drunkenness or similar without their consent, on the occasion of different celebrations, can constitute an illegitimate interference in their rights to honor, intimacy and the image itself with the legal consequences that it can entail,” argues. Is it just a warning? No. The Audiovisual Council goes further and remembers a pair of key data. First, that these rights are recognized and covered by the Article 18.1 of the Constitution and regulate in the Organic Law 1/1982which details when you can speak of “illegitimate interference” in the honor and intimacy of a person. Second, that in Spain there is already at least one precedent, a sentence that gave the reason to the affected and derived a considerable fine. “There is already the precedent of a sanction of 10,000 eurosimposed by the Spain data protection agency (AEPD), for the mass dissemination on social networks of a recorded video without consent where a person who was on public roads appears in a state of drunkenness ” remember. On that occasion the video was recorded by a stranger who was in his car and he can identify the protagonist, who was supported by a paper to maintain balance. But is it so serious? Yes. Or at least so suggest The report Published last year by the CAA, dedicated precisely to “the dissemination of videos of drunk people at the Seville Fair or other mass holidays.” Perhaps who records (and shares) the images seems an innocent joke, but The Council warns than the Hashatg #Papagorda has ended up gaining amazing public relevance. After sweeping by Google and several social networks focus especially on terms related to drunkenness and fairs, CAA has achieved figures that reveal its scope. How relevant? “Searches have been made on Google and in the internal search engines of Tiktok, X, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Tiktok has been one of the most used platforms for the dissemination of content with #Papagorda24 during the Seville 2024 In total. This hashtag was the 16th with more traffic in Spain as of April 2024 “, Add the CAAwhich notes that its impact on X or Tiktok has come accompanied by a “growing disapproval” by users. That’s all? No. The CAA slides also an important reflection. The problem is not just that images of drunk people are recorded and disseminated without their consent to make fun of it. The fact of sharing that material in networks also makes the final impact and the route of the videos uncontrollable. In fact, the Council recalls that the hashtag have become “viral” and have ended up attracting even media attention. “It is evident that, with the distribution of these short videos without consent, the fundamental rights of the people who appear can be violated. In addition, this risk is increased since they are distributed by platforms, with the multiplier effect of these,” ditch. Images | Channel South Media (Flickr) 1 and 2 In Xataka | In Tiktok there are men shaving the eyelashes to look more masculine. Science has bad news for them

How micro -redes fit into the energy puzzle

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In recent years, Spain has turned the sun In his best ally for photovoltaic generation. However, the April 28 blackout has evidenced the lack of effective integration in the electricity network. Short. Until now, the first image that always accompanies renewables are batteries, but there is another network coupling system: micro -redes or micrographs. According to He explained Borja Santos, CEO of Full & Fast, for Europa Press, micro -redes are autonomous energy systems composed of a power converter and a battery system. These systems receive all energy inputs and outputs from different sources, such as structure, solar panels or even conventional electricity. Deeper. The micro -redes They operate through storage systems that allow accumulating the energy generated at times of low demand or high production. This stored energy can then be released at critical moments, guaranteeing system stability. This model not only provides supply security, but also offers economic opportunities by managing stored energy and releasing it when the market price is more favorable. When the energy zero arrived. In case of a main supply drop, the MICRORRED can continue to function independently, maintaining the continuity of the energy service for its users. In other words, micro -redes act as a “network within the network”, allowing communities, industries or rural areas to continue operating without interruptions, even if the national electrical system collapses, such as has detailed Borja Santos. In addition, he added that the blackout revealed the lack of systems capable of generating its own voltage and frequency reference. The micro-redes, on the contrary, can do so, thus preventing the systems from entering in a state of “stand-by” as happened in Spain. In other words, what gives you the micorred is self -sufficiency and the ability to continue operating and working uninterruptedly, there is light or not. A country with solar overcapacity. Spain has invested massively in solar parks, but, like has pointed out The former Minister of Public Administration, Jordi Sevilla, the electrical system has not adapted to this new reality. Seville has warned that “the generation points connected to the transport network have been multiplied, as well as its geographical distribution,” which has increased the complexity of managing the electrical system. In addition, he explained that the normative proposals presented by Red Electrica to regulate photovoltaic investors have been in the Ministry’s drawers for years, while the network still does not adapt to the new realities of the energy mix. However, the problem does not lies in generation capacity, but in the inability to manage it effectively. In this sense, Borja Santos has pointed out That “in Spain there is overcapacity of solar generation, but those solar parks confront a problem: they generate maximum energy when you least pay the market”, which reduces profitability for investors. The implementation. Despite the potential of the micrordes, their mass implementation in Spain faces several challenges. On the one hand, the current regulation does not sufficiently encourage the development of these systems, and the normative proposals that would allow renewables to help control the tension and reactive current of the network still sleep “the dream of the righteous”, According to the former minister. On the other hand, the Spanish electrical system It has been designed To manage synchronous energies, such as gas or nuclear, which generate their own frequency reference. Renewables, on the other hand, depend on electronic systems that do not offer this reference naturally, which increases the complexity of integrating large volumes of solar or wind energy without compromising its stability. For that reason, UNEF has pointed out the implementation of the procedure Operation 7.4 would allow renewables to control the tension and reactive current of the network, contributing to mitigate future blackouts. Forecasts. The April 28 blackout evidenced a problem in the management and storage capacity of the national electrical system. The micro -redes are presented as a solution thanks to their ability to operate independently and maintain the supply at critical moments. Image | Pexels and Victor Romero v Xataka | There is a suspect number 1 to explain the total blackout of Spain: a poor stabilization of the electricity grid

Advertise five more dates suddenly

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At the end of May, Bad Bunny will play in Madrid and Barcelona inside his tour ‘I had to throw more World Tour’ photos. Since it was announced a few days ago, it instantly became one of the most important live musical events of 2026 in Spain. Some expectation could be guess, taking into account that the launch of the album of the same name in January became a Viral phenomenon. But the answer has been overwhelming. And points to certain problems in the current management of macroconciertes. The hunger games. At 12.45, a quarter of an hour before the presale of the (initially) three concerts that the Puerto Rican singer was going to give in Spain in 2026, The Ticketmaster website He fell due to the very high demand. Error messages on the server (“Error 503” and “500 Internal Server Error” were the most frequent) have ended up deriving in a tail of several hundred thousand people waiting for their turn. Soon chaos began to refer to social networks, which They started to fill of protests. Accessing inputs, limited to a maximum of eight per person, was impossible. Like mushrooms. The demand has been of such caliber that Bad Bunny has announced, in the following hours, five more concerts that are added to the three planned, four in Madrid and one in Barcelona. The dates are like this: Friday May 22 – Barcelona – Estadi Olìmpic Saturday, May 23 – Barcelona – Estadi Olìmpic Saturday, May 30 – Madrid – Riyadh Air Metropolitano Sunday May 31 Madrid – Riyadh Air Metropolitano Tuesday, June 2 – Madrid – Riyadh Air Metropolitano Wednesday, June 3 – Madrid – Riyadh Air Metropolitano Saturday, June 6 – Madrid – Riyadh Air Metropolitano Sunday June 7 – Madrid – Riyadh Air Metropolitano The one -week space that originally mediated among the concerts of Madrid and Barcelona suggests that these extra concerts were already planned. Likely, These new ads They are not so much an answer to the brutal demand as a strategic maneuver to generate more expectation for the shortage of dates. At the moment, the tickets are depleted, but they are still to be sold: when the general tickets will be opened on May 9, new sectors of the Metropolitan and the Olìmpic Stadi will be opened. The culture of the event. The two and a half million people who came In Rio de Janeiro to see Lady Gaga They made it clear. We are becoming addicted to a “culture of the event” that neglects small concerts or cultural consumption in private, to give way to an enjoyment of music or cinema that only has meaning when it is a great show that can be shown to the rest of the world saying “I was there.” This way of accessing culture brings a feeling of Fomo (Fear of Missing Outor “fear of lost it”), since the feeling that these mastodontic concerts transmit is that it will spend a long time before they are repeated, if they are repeated (as has happened, no doubt, with Lady Gaga). Bad Bunny, for example, did not act in Spain since 2019. This expectation is the one that generates problems to get entries in the Taylor Swift concerts or oasis. When will Taylor give another tour of this size? When will the Gallagher speak again? It is not known. Technical problems. The problem is that although Live Nation is a multinational in live events, the problems are repeated with each of these events. Falling servers, excess demand and finally thousands of people running out of tickets after days with very high expectations. The trips to other countries To see artists become common, and an additional problem is generated: the sale of second hand, a problem that It is still to be solved in these times in which, thanks to the Internet and platforms dedicating themselves exclusively in this, they make overpricing something practically immediate. Ticketmaster has been trying to combat the proliferation of bots that Systems saturate from purchase requests And that led to 2022, for example, Taylor Swift concert tickets at the start of their world tour They will quote $ 22,000. A problem that only adds firewood to the fire, because the bots are not completely falsifying the real demand: with resale or without it, hundreds of thousands of authentic followers of Bad Bunny fight to get an entry by 2026. The problem of macroconcientes. With physical formats at the dead man, macroconcientes have become the most effective form of the industry to make money. In Spain in 2024, live music entered 25.32% more than the previous year, 725.6 million eurosand this is not only because there are more concerts, but for prices are shot. According to Pollstar dataonly the 100 most successful tours in the world (it can be said that all of them are macroconciertes) reached a joint collection of 9,500 million dollars. While the circuit of small and medium groups He is touched from death because the public already wants shows in enclosures that allow the entry of dozens of thousands of people every night, for a whole weekthe industry feeds on these giants. But those responsible do not even put the means for this implosion of the music business: even buying an entrance of three hundred euros for the fashion singer is very complicated. In Xataka | Taylor Swift has already released 34 editions from his latest album. OBJECTIVE: Never abandon success lists

Thus we are going to turn the Aove boom into a problem

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Today’s is good news; That is, today is a bad news: in the first quarter of the year 81.32 million liters of olive oil were sold. That represents an increase of 47.15% compared to last year. And I know, they seem huge figures, but the story doesn’t end there. If we look at virgin olive oil, growth is 64% (81.32 million liters). These data are not just the radiography that has just presented The National Association of Packaging Industrialists and Oil Refiners, are a prophecy for the future. Because, as I always say, this is good news. After years of crisis in the sector, olive oil needed a good year. And it seemed that it was this. A good harvest, an avida demand for low prices, a favorable international situation (or at least not harmful) … This was the year of recovery. But, as we have been counting, the market has been deeply unbalanced. Something that has already caused ‘losses’ of a one billion euros and an air of stupor in the sector. Above all, now that we know that demand is so great that the campaign will not be enough. But what does all this affect us? In a link problem. What in the jargon of the sector is called “oil link” is the amount of olive oil that is available at the end of a campaign and that is transferred to the next campaign. As oil is an annual product, the “link” is not only the mattress that ensures that there is oil available the months before the new harvest; It is the mechanism which allows to contain the price of oil and avoid large fluctuations. Not having a link is a headache. One internationally. Because The data handled by the European Commission say that Portugal has dropped its offer by 10% and that Greece are also down. That is, because, at this rhythm, the final stocks of the entire Union (about 371,586 tons) will be almost 30% lower than the average of the last five campaigns. In Spain in particular, the link (the stocks that remain between campaigns and that help ‘control’ the price) will be 18%. That is what is going to mark the whole summer: until we finally know the capacity of next year, Prices are going to be a carousel. Image | David Clode | Frank Albrecht In Xataka | Before the escalation of olive oil, thousands of Spaniards are making a radical decision: to go to Portugal

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