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In 2028 they will build a nuclear power plant on the moon

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Yuri Ivanovich Borísov, former Vice Minister of Defense of Russia and currently at the head of Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, confirmed in March 2024 that China and the country led by Vladimir Putin planned to install a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon. Russia’s long experience in the development of nuclear infrastructure is beyond doubt. And China, although it has later reached this industry, has scientific capacity and resources necessary to get airy. Its plan is to have the International Lunar Research Station (known as Ilrs for its acronym in English). Russia and China will operate it jointly, but for this installation to come to fruition it is essential to develop an energy source that guarantees a stable and sustained supply over time. This is the need that precisely aims to solve these two nations building A small nuclear power plant On the lunar surface. The starting gun will arrive in 2028 Pei Zhaoyu, the chief engineer of the Chang’e-8 mission, has confirmed This week how relevant Russia’s participation is in this project: “An important issue for the Ilrs is the energy supply. In this field Russia has a natural advantage because in regard to nuclear facilities, and especially sending them to space, leads the world even ahead of the US.” The Chang’e-8 mission will give the authentic departure gun to this very ambitious program. The International Lunar Research Station will be permanently inhabited from 2030 And it is that China plans to launch it in 2028 with a double purpose: initiate the preparation of the lunar base that will be permanently inhabited from 2030 and explore the construction of the nuclear reactor that will be responsible for the main delivery of energy to the station. As we have seen some lines up, both facilities They should be finished in 2035. Interestingly, the Chinese government has not yet officialized its approval of this plan, but the statements of Pei Zhaoyu corroborate that The collaboration of Russia and China is already underway. In any case, the country’s nuclear scientists led by Xi Jinping already have a preliminary design of their nuclear reactor ready. And it has some novel features. To elaborate it have been inspired by both NASA’s design and the old Soviet nuclear reactor Topaz-II. Your proposal will use Fuel bars Ring -shaped uranium dioxide; A double cooling system that will use liquid metal (NAK-78), and that, on paper, will be able to maintain the reactor core below 600 ºC; And finally, a moderator of Ititrio hydride neutrons that according to Chinese technicians is more efficient than conventional zirconium hydride moderators. Meanwhile the US is preparing His return to the moon through the NASA Artemis program. Its purpose is to place two astronauts on the lunar surface in 2027 and start from this milestone the construction of a sustainable lunar base. This installation will have large solar panels, but photovoltaic energy It is not enough to ensure supply Because on the moon the night endures for between fourteen and fifteen terrestrial days. For this reason The US is also developing a nuclear reactor known as FISION SURFACE POWER (FSP) that will be able to deliver 40 kW of power. Image | China National Space Administration More information | Interesting Engineering In Xataka | We are building nuclear spacecraft again. NASA believes we will need them

Barcelona began to excavate to build a parking. Ended up discovering a medieval ship of 10 my and uncertain origin

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His intention was to build a new parking, but the team in charge of the works of the Ciutadella del Coneixementin Barcelona, ​​has ended up doing something very different: finding an archaeological finding that has already captured the interest of the historians of the Catalan capital. And it’s normal. What technicians have located under the ground of the city, to five meters Under the sea level, it is neither more nor less than a medieval long -won over 10 meters long and three wide. The first studies estimate that the boat dates from the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries, but questions are left to answer. What happened? That the Barcelona subsoil has just given a surprise (and a joy) to historians. Another one. A few weeks ago, during the construction works of the future Parking of the BSM in the Ciutadella del Coneixement, archaeologists located the remains of a ship that, according to the first estimates, would date from the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries. It is not the first once the work on the site of the old Mercat del Peix brought to light remains of historical interest, but as Recognize The Archeology Service of the Barcelona City Council is “exceptional”. Good proof is that the town hall has launched A statement (and a wide image gallery) to value the wreck and team of archaeologists in charge of documenting the remains has spoken with the means to clear some doubts. What have you discovered? The “partial remains Of a sunk ship “, a boat that ended up wafraling or abandoned and priori (already waiting for her to advance her study), experts have dated between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. To be more precise, during their investigation, archaeologists have found a structure formed by thirty notebooks and part of the wooden pieces that covered the exterior of the fuselage. In total the pec ten meters long for just over three wide. “The tables are nailed in the notebooks with circular section timber, a kind of wooden nails that served to join the parts. Two longitudinal pieces set with iron nails are also preserved,” details The City Council Archeology Service. In the world’s surroundings, very fertile sand and alms have also been located that include “organic remains” of interest, such as hazelnut seeds or even pineapple remains. Do we know anything else? In addition to date it around the fifteenth and sixteenth, experts They point that the construction style of the ship was common in the Mediterranean medieval and extended throughout Europe from the mid -XV. They are however Some questions for responding, as its exact origin or what function I played. To clear some of those unknowns archaeologists are also investigating the remains of seeds and alms that surround the wreck. What will happen to him? The City Council He has stressed The importance of the finding because it is “a unique source of knowledge” on navigation and naval construction techniques that were used in the Barcelona of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. However, not everything is in his favor. The remains are found in a “very fragile state of conservation”, which forces experts to be cautious. To prevent the soaked from drying and degraded by being exposed to the weather, the technicians have partially kept it with the sand that has been used for centuries. The objective of the Archeology Service of Barcelona and the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia is now to document the remains and “guarantee the conservation” of the wreck, which has already been baptized as ‘Citadel I’. “The first actions have included three -dimensional documentation works, the marking of the pieces, the sampling and the preparation of the transfer in containers full of water that ensure the temporary conservation of the remains,” The Consistory requires. The materials will be transferred to “specialized facilities” so that they can treat them with water and hydrosoluble wax, a substance with which the structure is to be reinforced. What tells us about Barcelona? The wreck is not interesting only for the boat itself and what can be told about medieval navigation or naval. Another key is what can tell us about the development of Barcelona. After all, the remains appeared in the old Mercat del Peix, at a depth of more than five meters under sea level. Archaeologists have already They slid that its location can be related to the transformation of the maritime front. “The finding, which from a technical point of view is known as melter, is part of a historical context of transformation of the maritime front. From 1439, with the construction of the first artificial tenazes, the dynamics of the coastline was altered and the sand bar known as the task, which had protected the city for centuries” Clarify The City Council. In 2008 it was already located A similar ship near the station of France. Images | Barcelona’s Decrease In Xataka | We finally know what sailors ate at the high seas in the 16th century. Thanks to the CSIC and a sunk galeon

The US wants to build an unprecedented antimisile shield called “Golden Dome”. And Spacex has suitable technology

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The idea of ​​an antimile shield that protects the United States from enemy attacks is not even original. Already in the era reagan, The country fantasized with an initiative nicknamed “Star Wars” That never saw the light. Now, the Trump administration wants to dust off the project with technology of the 21st century and a more intimidating name: “Golden Dome” (the golden dome). With Spacex technology. A technological consortium headed by Spacex, the Aerospace Company of Elon Musk, leads the race to develop part of the Golden Dome, Publish Reuters. Its proposal consists of a constellation of between 400 and more than a thousand satellites dedicated to detecting enemy missiles, following its trajectory and determining if they suppose a threat to the territory of the United States. Other separate fleet of about 200 satellites (armed with missiles or lasers) would be responsible for intercepting missiles; Although the group led by Spacex would not be, according to Reuters, involved in the offensive part of the system. Old acquaintances. In addition to Spacex, two other technology companies are part of the initiative: Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industries. Palantir is a government software co -founded by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel, old acquaintances of Musk. Anduril specializes in military drones and Autonomous Defense Technologies; Its most famous founder is Palmer Lukey, the creator of the Virtual Virtual Rift helmets. All of them, very aligned entrepreneurs and Donald Trump’s millionaire donors. If you liked, subscribe. The approach proposed by Spacex, Palantir and Anduril has an unorthodox turn for a defense contract for this magnitude: a subscription model. Instead buy and own satellite infrastructure, the Pentagon would pay a fee to access its services. This model, always according to reuters, could expedite the implementation by dodging the conventional procurement protocols of the Pentagon, but would also tie the government to a supplier and limit its control over the development and future prices of technology. After the publication of Reuters, which generated comments on possible conflicts of interest and worse things, Elon Musk responded in his X profile: “This is not true”, without giving more details. From Iron Dome to Golden Dome. The inspiration in the name seems clear: the Israeli iron dome. But the differences also appear in sight: Israel is a small country, with short -range threats. The United States is a continental country exposed to attacks from multiple vectors and with new threats, as the hypersonic missiles developed by Russia and Chinawhose erratic trajectories and extreme speed challenge current systems. Replicating the iron dome on an American scale is technical and economically unfeasible. Hence, the alternative that right now has more ballots is a solution based on the Starlink satellite constellation, which would cost between 6,000 and 10,000 million dollars. More politics than defense, for now. Although Spacex and its technological partners seem to be in the lead, traditional defense giants such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX or Boeing are not far behind and also bid on the part of the cake. The Pentagon has received proposals from more than 180 companies. The big question is whether Golden Dome will really be a defensive revolution against real threats (such as hypersonic weapons or orbital bombing systems) or If it’s just an electoral promise closer to the science fiction of Star Wars than to a pragmatic military strategy. If something has taught us the current administration is that nothing they are going to do tomorrow is predictable. Images | Peter Thiel and Elon Musk (PayPal), Starlink Stelas (Lowell) In Xataka | Space energy never worked. A military escalation in orbit is making it come true

There he learned everything he needed to build Microsoft’s empire

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Microsoft is, without a doubt, the greater professional success of Bill Gates. However, not many people know that the secret of their success was based on some failures that the millionaire committed Before founding the technological. In his autobiographical book, ‘Code Source: My beginnings’Gates reveals how this first business experience, when he was barely a teenager, was decisive to mold his vision about What Microsoft should be. This episode of Gates’s life shows that even the brightest and most successful businessmen have had to stumble learn from your mistakes. Traf-o-Data: Gates and Allen’s first attempt In the summer of 1972, Bill Gates was attended by his last year of high school, while Paul Allen was already in college. Both had met at the school computing club. They were inexperienced and have barely done a few programming projects for the school or to collaborate in projects with their teachers. However, they were presented with the opportunity to code and process telemetry data of the Alburquerque traffic using perforated paper ribbons, so both friends joined for efforts and founded Traf-O-Data. Gates himself is described in the book as a “spoiled know -allotodo” that often responded with sarcasm and disdain with a: “That is the most stupid thing I have heard.” A phrase that, who have worked with the tycoon At some point in his career at the head of Microsoft, he has surely heard on more than one occasion. Having that in mind, the experience provided by Traf-O-Data, although failed, served as learning For someone who has defined himself as self -taught. Both schoolmates created a machine equipped with a Intel 8008 microprocessor of 360 dollars that allowed to automate the reading of the paper tapes that contained the traffic data to digitize that information. Although the idea seemed promising, the company failed to be profitable. As Paul Allen remembered In an article De Newsweek, “Traf-O-Data was a good idea with a poor business model. We had not occurred to market studies and we did not know how difficult it would be to get financing from the municipalities.” In 1975, they managed to bill almost $ 17,000. Which was not bad in the case of an inexperienced young people. According to Paul Allen, he remained operational until 1980, when he already registered annual losses of $ 3,494. This first business failure, far from discouraging them, served as a test laboratory where They learned important lessons on the marketproject management and the importance of constant innovation. “Traf-o-Data is still my favorite mistake because it confirmed that each failure contains the seed of the next success,” Allen recalled. Gates assured in his book that he learned that it is not enough to have a good idea, but it is crucial to have a solid business model and a well -defined business objective. The experience with Traf-O-Data taught them to identify the real market needs (the digitalization of the data of the paper tapes) and to develop solutions that really made the difference (the machine that processed the information), skills that would forge the foundations on which Microsoft would be built. Learning to be the boss The adventure of Traf-O-Data, was also a personal level learning for Gates, somewhat awkward in terms of social skills. Before developing the machine with the processor, Gates and Allen They hired a group of students of lakeside younger than them to transcribe by hand the data of the tapes. They paid fifty cents for each tape. Then, Gates and Allen went to the Library of the University of Washington and used The university computer to process this data and generate the traffic patterns graphics that the tapes had been recorded. That He taught them to work as a teamto make quick decisions and adapt to the changes in the environment to stay in your target. Later, they created their own processing system, which allowed them to collect two dollars daily for the digitalization of the data, as well as expand their business area to other government agencies of the neighboring states to Seattle. Gates himself explained to young peoplethat they were going to graduate at the University of Arizona del Norte that errors are a fundamental part of the learning process and that you should not be afraid to commit them. Traf-o-data was the seed of What is Microsoft today. In Xataka | Bill Gates is clear about the habit of his childhood that has helped him succeed in his career: get bored In Xataka | Steve Ballmer has become a Milmillonario without founding a single company: some of his advice to achieve it Image | Flickr (World Economic Forum)

If you do not build its Arizona chips factories, you will face tariffs up to 100%

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Donald Trump Does not take care of your effort with TSMC. During the electoral campaign the current US president said on several occasions that he was determined to make the decisions that were appropriate so that the country that now governs Recover the leadership of the semiconductor industry. Untilly entered the 80s of the last century, it had some of the most robust companies in this sector, such as Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM or Motorola, but little by little it was giving control of a market that Now it is in Asia’s hands. TSMC currently has a global fee of approximately 60% and manufactures avant -garde chips for many US companies, such as Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom or Qualcomm, among others. This Taiwanese company has factories in the US, such as the Phoenix (Arizona) plant that is about to start the large -scale production of Integrated 5 nm circuits In the N4 lithographic node, but a good part of the semiconductors that he gives to their American clients leave their Taiwan plants. Donald Trump wants to end this strategy. This statement He did it on January 27, a few days after returning to the White House and starting his second presidency: “In the very close future we will impose tariffs on foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceutical products to return the manufacture of these essential goods to the US (…) went to Taiwan; now we want you to return. We do not want to give them billions of dollars Biden. Tariff up to 100% to TSMC are still on the table The stir that has triggered The tariff strategy of the US government throughout the planet during the last week is not precedents. But in terms of integrated circuits in general, already TSMC in particular, Donald Trump has not modified his least. The statement you have made Just a few hours ago during an event of the National Republican Committee of Congress, it places TSMC again in the Center for Care despite the planning to build several more plants in Arizona in the medium term. “If they do not build their plant here they will pay a great tax. Maybe 25%. Or 50%. Or 75%. Or even 100%” “I did not give TSMC money. It is a great company. The most powerful in the world. The largest chips company on the planet (…) is spending 200,000 million dollars in Arizona by building one of the largest plants in the world. All that without money (USA). All I did was: ‘If they do not build their plant here they will pay a large tax. Maybe 25%. Or 50%. Or 75%. Or even 100%“, Donald Trump has argued. It is evident that the goal of having forced TSMC is being pointed out to settle in Phoenix with the purpose of producing avant -garde chips in the US in the US in the US already manufactured to those already manufactured in Taiwan. Trump does not strive in the least to take care of forms. His statements, that of January and yesterday, threatenly threaten TSMC. As I mentioned a few lines above, the first plant of this company in Phoenix is ​​about to manufacture large -scale chips, but its plan does not end here. The second factory will be operational in 2028 and will produce integrated circuits in N3 (3 Nm) and N2 (2 Nm) nodes. And finally, the third factory will not be listed at all until the end of this decade and will produce chips in the N2 (2 nm) node. In addition, the TSMC production infrastructure in Arizona will have two advanced chip encapsulated facilities and an R&D center. At the current situation it is unlikely that this company renounces this project. Image | TSMC More information | Reuters In Xataka | Intel’s plan in front of an unattainable TSMC: beat Samsung and consolidate as the second largest chips manufacturer

The difficult thing has not been to build a yacht of 80 meters and 200 million dollars. It has been to take it to the sea without destroying it

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Imagine living in a quiet town near Rotterdam, and when you look at your window you see a colossus for you, 14 meters wide and with the height of a three -storey building. It is what has happened (once again) to the inhabitants of the quiet town of Alphan (Netherlands). According to published the local media AD Those who have approached one of the channels that are going through the population have seen how A 200 million superyate of dollars Lawrence Strollowner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1 and head of Fernando Alonso, juggled to reach the sea sailing through narrow channels and raffling bridges and all kinds of obstacles in his odyssey. The megayate odyssey Feadship is one of the world’s main manufacturers in the world. From their shipyards in Aalsmeer they have left colossi like the Launchpad by Mark Zuckerbergwith 118 meters of length. All of them have had to go through that intricate journey of narrow channels, curves that test the expertise of the engineers involved in the transfer and several traffic cuts in the populations through which they pass. This type of operations are not simple. They require millimeter planning and the perfect execution of each step. Any calculation or maneuver error could have ended up damaging the helmet of a vessel valued at more than 200 million dollars or, worse, putting people’s safety at risk. The epic odyssey of PROJECT 714production name that the Stroll Yate has received, was recorded on video for the Dutch Yachting Channel. Some sections of the transfer were especially tense, such as the pass There were hardly a few centimeters of margin so that the superyate helmet scratches its pillars. The tight turns in the channels, as a chicane in an F1 circuit as in which their owner competes, also contributed their touch of tension during the hypnotic transfer to high seas. Project 714 Leaving the shipyards When even money can pave the way PROJECT 714 is neither the first nor the last supereyate that makes this journey, but its complexity reaches the extreme when it comes to large vessels such as the commission of the owner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1, with an estimated heritage in 3.8 billion dollars, according to Forbes. The journey of Koru de Jeff Bezos From the Oceanco shipyards in Alblasserdam, it was a challenge the exit to the high seas through some channels similar to those that has had to travel the Spery of Stroll. On that occasion, the Dutch builder had to face A serious problem: A historical drawbridge built in 1927 was not high enough for the 70 -meter masts of the Koru to pass under its structure, so the construction company proposed to temporarily dismantle the bridge so that the sailboat could cross it. According to The published by the local medium Truuwthe refusal of the neighbors forced the refusal of the City Council, so the builder had no choice but make the journey without masts to complete the construction of the Koru in the shipyards that the company has in Greenport. A floating mansion Ad picked up some of the reactions of Alphan’s neighbors who came to see how Project 714 slid over the waters of their narrow channels. “This is quite impressive,” “is not normal”, “the closer, more impressive” or “we are in first class” are some of the comments that raised in its path the impressive mole of steel and aluminum. The luxurious yacht is designed to be A floating mansion destined for leisure and It has five covers, A beach club with pool in the stern, an sharp bow cover that could well host a helipad and wooden floors in all covers. When being in manufacturing phase, Feadship does not give many details about his Interior equipment and finishessomething that will be addressed after overcoming the navigation tests that it now faces. Which He has shared It is that the yacht has a more efficient diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system that reduces vibration and improve comfort on board. In Xataka | Ultrararicos change the ground for a superyte during the summer: so are some of these floating mansions In Xataka | Keeping a mooring supereate comes out very expensive. Some researchers have a proposal for the rich: donate them to science Image | Feadship, Aston Martin F1

How to build an atomic bomb at home

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Almost half a century ago, when there was obviously no internet and geopolitics revolved around The cold wara fact occurred that made alarms jump to society. Actually, that was the preamble of what would later be enhanced with the networks: use the public material and information available to anyone to develop weapons. With an exception: I was in Liza Build An atomic bomb In the house storage. How to become a legend. Year 1977. A little prominent student from Princeton University He surprised the world Entero (and to the FBI) ​​with an academic project that, under the revealing title of “How to build your own atomic bomb”, detailed to chilling precision the necessary steps to manufacture a functional nuclear weapon. Its author, John Aristotle Phillipsa 21 -year -old born in Connecticut, was the son of Greek immigrants and was studying without standing at all: he had repeated courses, he touched the suspense and was better known by Your pet costume of football than for their academic achievements. His transformation into an international figure came from the hand of an unexpected combination of obsession, stubbornness, ability to seek information and the challenge of impressing a legendary teacher. The academic challenge. Phillips faced a final task proposed by the famous physical Freeman Dysonwho taught in Princeton after having worked with figures such as Richard Feynman and Hans Bethe In some of the most complex projects of the twentieth century, including the development of the atomic bomb inside of the Manhattan project. Dyson had asked his students to work on nuclear proliferation, and Phillips, aware of his lack of academic brightness, wanted to stand out with a provocative proposal: to recreate the design of a bomb similar to that of Nagasakiusing only public sources. Dyson, surprised by the audacity, humorously accepted the challenge, promising an outstanding qualification if he succeeded, but also that he would burn the work after reading it. An obsession. For weeks, Phillips worked tirelessly between Princeton Library and his room, collecting Declassified Document Information of the National Technical Information Service, Physics textbooks, government communications and consultations with the Du Pont company about implosion principles. Without using a single classified source, he managed to assemble a 40 -page document where I explained step by step how to make a nuclear bomb. He delivered the work, obtained the maximum note and, far from being destroyed as Dyson had suggested, his project began to circulate from mouth to mouth until he reached the ears of professional physicists and media. A national celebrity. The dissemination of work attracted the attention of experts such as Frank Chilton, a physicist specialized in nuclear engineering, who said that Phillips design was Technically viablewith the exception of access to plutonium, the only obstacle to its materialization. The news It exploded in the media: The boy without an academic future became forever In “The A-Bomb Kid”a media figure that symbolized both unexpected brilliance and the dangers of dissemination without control in the nuclear era. Fame reached a critical point when several pakistani scientific assumptions approached Phillips to offer money in exchange for the document. The FBI intervened immediately: confiscated the work and a model that the student had built, and classified the material as sensitive information. The contradictory inheritance. Far from taking advantage of his sudden fame to continue in the academic or scientific world, Phillips published in 1979 with David Michaelis the book Mushroom: The True Story of the A-Bomb Kidwhere he narrated his experience and the journey of his unusual rise to fame. Over time, his awareness about the risks of nuclear proliferation led him to become an antinuclear activist, dedicating years to warn about the ease with which certain knowledge could fall into wrong hands. In fact, and in a turn of the events that no one expected, its trajectory finally resulted In politics: He was running as a Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1980 and 1982, although that, without electoral success. The truth is that never He shone again as he did in that university project. A warning in full “era.” The history of Philips cannot be more relevant now that the world seems more convulsion that never. In fact, Aristotle’s case It marked a precedent disturbing: A student without access to classified materials managed to design, using only public sources, a functional nuclear artifact. In a global context where technological proliferation has only increased, its history continues to be used as an example in debates about information security, scientific education and ethical limits of knowledge. Although he never physically built the bomb, his work showed that the danger does not always come from professional spies or enemy governments, but also from curious minds with a long time, access to libraries … and a typewriter. Ironically, today there is no need for any of the three keys. 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Build a building by pieces like a giant layman

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In Zaragoza they are building a building that has not been built in Zaragoza. Sounds up word, but it is a rather accurate description of what the firm has done Metro7 In the middle of the Calle Mayor of the Aragonese capital. There their operators have raised a block of five floors (335 m2 built) that will host a hotel with four suites and an office that will occupy the architecture study itself. The surprising thing is how long they have taken: the structure has taken shape in less a weeka record time they have achieved thanks to their “construction system Offsite“The term may not say much, but basically it consists of stacking modules that Metro7 manufactures in a ship located outside Zaragoza. Yes, just like a huge lego. And that building? That is probably the question that many Zaragozanos have been asked that these days have passed through Calle Mayor. In a small plot irregularly it has ‘sprouted’ in less than a week A new five -storey building, with its windows, facades, enclosures and even panels to grow a vertical garden outside. He Tuesday 11 The project responsible for the project, Metro7, reported that it had started with the first floor and this Monday explained during An interview With the chain being that at least the bulk of the most spectacular works has already ended. “In just five days this whole building has been mounted”, José Bailach stressed, Design Manager. Moreover, its goal is to open May 7. How did they do it? With modules. Like a XXL of Lego game. If the construction has advanced so fast in the urban center of Zaragoza it is because before the company was in charge of advancing work on its nave of Pinseque, a town located about 20 kilometers from the capital Maña. There the Metro7 team prepared a dozen and a half of modules that then moved to the plot of the works to mount them with the help of a crane. One of the most curious details that can be seen in The images Published by the study itself is the level of finishing of the modules: they already include windows, exterior panels for a vertical garden, lamps and interior elements. The company It refers to the system as “100% modular construction Offsite” and defend also that its buildings are “sustainable.” “Each plant, about 35 m2, is composed of three modules that are transported completely finished. Our team assembles in situ.” Everything ready in a week? Not quite. The “five days” to those that refers The company are only part of the project, essential, but insufficient. The works to create the building started much earlier and do not end with the placement of the last module. Before the company has to prepare the pieces, carry out load tests and transfer the prefabricated elements to the plot. His purpose in this case, once there, was to set a new plant every day. In total the preparation and assembly phase of the hard modules “between three and four months”, As reported The company itself The Aragon newspaper, A time that also took the opportunity to advance in the foundation in the plot. After all, prefabricated pieces are not the only ones that make up the building. In the plot itself, the foundations were built, the ground floor and a space for the elevator. How long does it take in total? If we add that time, the assembly of the modules and the days that are invested in the finishes and complete the assembly, the construction of the block would take some some five months. There are not five days, but of course it is less than it would take to build a similar block following the traditional construction system. BAILACH defend The advantages of the model. To start with the “security” that, he says, offers operators during construction. He also insists that the time cut even benefits the neighbors, subjecting them less months of noise, transfer of machines, traffic cuts and the rest of the inconvenience that usually takes the construction of a hotel of several floors. Is it a novelty? With its new construction Metro7 aspires to give more visibility to its construction system Offsite With prefabricated modules, but the truth is that it is not a newcomer to the sector. The firm has already several years active and in Your website Informs projects in different cities. With the new Zaragoza block they want to gain notoriety, something that will probably help the building to become a hotel Minimal Suites of Four suites. Modular construction, with prefabricated or industrialized houses is not new either. There are specialized companies that concentrate 80% of the process of construction in their ships to complete the remaining 20% ​​in the work itself and in Spain there can already be examples, although They are far of being the majority formula in the sector. Its advantages, especially the speed, has also made it Administrations interesting In the model. Images | Metro7 (1 and 2) In Xataka | The obsession of Spain for black and white: all new construction buildings are becoming the same building

Austin has managed to lower the price of housing in full world crisis. One of your keys: build a lot

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It doesn’t matter if it is the US, Europe or Asia. Where there is a tensioning real estate market, with upward prices and families forced to spend more than advisable In your rent or mortgages the question is always the same: how to lower prices or at least moderate them? Is there a formula that allows cutting the ascending spiral of €/m2? In Austin, Texas, they have succeeded. And to a large extent the key has been a clear commitment to the construction of new housing. The full photo, yes, is much more complicated. What do the figures say? That Austin, capital of Texas, the Tenth city With more US population, it has managed to reduce the cost of their home. It arrives with checking some sources to check. According to UNLOCKS MLS, in January the average sale price in Austin’s metropolitan area was 4.7% lower a year ago while the national trend at the close of 2024 was the opposite, with a price increase 6%. Redfin also confirms an interannual decrease 3.1%in the price of the square meter (m2). News Week It has echoed some luxury residences of the city that have strongly reduced their prices. In August He spoke of an average drop of 7.23% in the prices of the new constructions, with some properties reduced to 31.33%. In January he cited a mansion that had reduced its price 50% And in February he cited a similar case with a decrease 30%. Why is it important? In general, experts who analyze the Austin real estate market speak, if not drop in prices, yes at least of “stability”. What is not bad if two factors are taken into account. First, what The latest data From the Federal Financing Agency (FHFA) show the cost of the house has risen on average in the US, with a 4.5% rise between the fourth quarter of 2023 and the same period of 2023. The second key is that the last falls connect with those already registered in recent months. Just a year ago Wall Street Journal (WSJ) He informed That, if compared to the maximum values ​​reached in 2022, prices had fallen in Austin more than 11%. No other US metropolitan area has seen the house more cheaper during those years. As for the rental cost, the newspaper pointed to a 7% drop in just one year, again a record fact on the US urban map. Today it is estimated that they are already lower 22% to those of August 2023. Is there more data? Yes. Months later, at the beginning of autumn, Business Insider He put the thermometer again to the capital of the capital of Texas and found that housing prices had fallen even more clear with respect to 2022 peaks. At that time the Freddie Mac company placed the drop by 14% and Zillow in 18%. It may sound like a catastrophe for the real estate market, but the truth is that, despite these falls, the prices of houses and apartments in Austin were maintained above the levels prior to the pandemic. A year ago Moody´s calculated that were still 35% higher than what would be expected by the local economy and the most recent analyzes of Redfin either NORADA They corroborate that today the M2 in the Texan capital is still more expensive than in 2019. And what is the cause? Better talk about causes, in the plural. If Austin has managed to cut the price escalation of his real estate market and that the houses and apartments are cheaper is thanks to a sum of factors in which the commitment to new promotions is combined, the overconstructionthe increase in mortgage loans and the demographic dynamics of the city. To understand it, it is necessary to go back a few years ago, to A very different scenario in which prices grew at a good pace. What period do we go? To the last decade and the years prior to the pandemic, when the promoters and buyers of Austin faced a very different panorama: an escalation of prices that, according to Some estimatesled to the average cost of an house in the metropolitan area increased by 63% in a decade, from 2010 to 2020. WSJ It goes further And it points to an increase of 60% in just a couple of years, just during the pandemic, far exceeding the increase in income. These percentages are explained above all for one reason: the imbalance between supply (scarce) and demand (high). After the financial crisis of 2008, housing construction had been placed while the Austin area stood out at the national level for the growth of its population: 33% in a matter of a decade. Only between 2020 and 2022 his census office scored A 5.3% rise. The reason for that boom? Among others and dynamics of the pandemic apart, the commitment of companies such as Oracle, Tesla or Elon Musk himself and Your interest For the Texan State. That there were large companies making the bags to move to Austin was no accident. Beyond its environment, it was attractive at the regulatory and tax level. The problem is that this growth further brushed the real estate market, making prices fire. And how did the city answer? Building. A lot. Lot. And fast. Texas It usually presumes From its construction sector and in Austin it took muscle. Animated by demand, upward prices and changes at the regulatory level That they made the promoters easier, the Texan capital saw how its market entered into boil. It arrives with review some data to understand it. Only between 2020 and 2022 plans for tens of thousands of new homes of all kinds. Business Insider Remember that if in 2022 more than 3,000 new properties each month came to the market, the following year the figure already exceeds 5,000. It is estimated that Austin’s housing park gave a stretch of More than 8% In a few years, including both single -family houses and apartment and … Read more

It will build a repair center in the heart of China

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As of April 1 ASML will not be able to sell To its Chinese clients its measurement and inspection equipment of integrated circuits. Dutch administration has tightened its controls export to China, aligning with The sanctions approved by the US At the beginning of last December. In practice, these prohibitions force the largest manufacturer of the planet’s lithography equipment to request licenses from the Netherlands government to export a good part of its machines. However, this is not all. At the end of last February several US officials They met with their Dutch and Japanese counterparts With a firm purpose: negotiate what steps can take to drastically limit the participation of ASML and Japanese Tokyo Electron engineers in the maintenance of semiconductor production equipment that are being used by their Chinese customers. China is already the largest Asml market The sanctions that the US governments and the Netherlands are approving are degrading the ASML business in China. It is inevitable if we are in mind that this European company cannot sell its most advanced lithography equipment to its Chinese clients. And neither can some maintenance and after -sales services services provide. The most surprising thing is that despite the current situation the Chinese market is increasingly important for ASML. Despite the current situation, the Chinese market is increasingly important for Asml In 2022 the sales of this company in China amounted to 2.9 billion euros, which represented 13.8% of its annual sales. At that time Taiwan was a more important market for Asml than China. In fact, in 2023 the clients of the island bought lithography equipment for a total value of 8,100 million euros, while its Chinese clients disbursed 7.3 billion euros. And, curiously, in 2024 China was consolidated as the largest market for ASML with total sales of 10.2 billion euros. To understand where this figure comes from, we need to keep in mind something important. As we have seen, ASML cannot sell its most advanced equipment to its Chinese clients, such as the machines of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) or deep ultraviolet (UVP), but at the moment you can deliver the solutions that allow producing chips with mature integration technologies. These are the semiconductors that are mostly used in cars, appliances or electronic devices, among other products, and usually occur in nodes of 28 nm or less advanced. Anyway all these machines need maintenance. And ASML is determined to guarantee it to its Chinese clients beyond the very likely reluctance that US governments and the Netherlands can put. According to SCMP This company will build a repair and reuse of lithography equipment in the heart of China. In Beijing. This decision comes at a time when The tension between the US and China is maximumso, in reality, it is a very clear statement of intentions: ASML will protect your business in China at all costs. We will see what the government’s response led by Donald Trump will be. Image | ASML More information | SCMP In Xataka | Japan wants to recover leadership as a manufacturer of lithography equipment. And he has a plan to end the Asml monopoly

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