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Large basins already have their reservoirs less than 80% of their capacity

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Summer is affecting Spanish reservoirs. After almost a year of Hydrolyogical recoverysummer goes to the amount of reservoir water, which has been especially reduced in the downtown and north basins. Two months. Since reaching its annual peak before the start of summer, the amount of water retained in Spanish swamps has descended significantly. If at the end of May the Spanish Water Reserve It was 77.5% of its capacity, nine weeks later It is 68.4%. At a light pace. The speed at which the swamps are emptying this summer It’s somewhat faster that the average of recent years and considerably faster than in the last two summers. If in their peak the Spanish reservoirs accumulated 43,407 cubic hectometers (HM³), now they have 38,311 hm³, a decrease of 11.74% compared to this maximum (9.1% less compared to the total capacity of the system). This fall is somewhat greater than usual in this period. If we took the same dates last year, the fall was 8.88%, while the average of the last 5 years was 11.18% for the same dates. 10.98% if we consider the last 10 years. Different basins, different falls. The basin most affected by this fall is that of the coast of Galicia. The reservoirs of this basin have passed to save 548 to 417 hm³or what is the same, 23.91% less water. Among the big basins, the largest falls have been seen in the Duero, which went from 7,040 to 6,031 hm³ (a 14.33%drop); and of the Guadalquivir, which passed from 4,905 to 4,206 hm³ (14.25% less). Less restrictions. Part of the difference can be explained with the end of the drought that threatened our reservation last year at this point, a drought that affected all the basins of the Peninsula. The lack of water led the administrations to introduce Measures to limit consumption water. Some measures that, as the rains arrived, were being lifted by the different administrations that introduced them. Now, After relaxing the measureswater consumption has been able to increase and, with it, the speed at which our swamps empties. A June of the most anomalous. Summer is always a time of water stress: rainfall is usually minor and water consumption is greater. This year this is especially true, especially during the month of June. The summer of 2025 began strongly. June was not only an extremely warm month (the warmest since we have records), it was also a drier month than is usually common on dates. Precipitation was about 68% of the usual in peninsular Spain. Heat implies greater Evaporation of reservoirs water. A study Posted in 2000 It estimated at 1,400 hm³ the evaporated water in reservoirs and wetlands of Spain. This figure, of course, depends on factors such as temperature, but also on others such as the filling of the reservoirs (more water, more surface; already more surface, more evaporation). Heat makes more water to refresh us, also through greater energy consumption, and the lack of rains in some contexts must be supplied with water from reservoirs. In Xataka | The next great drought is a matter of time. It is the one we have to solve the problem of sediments in reservoirs Image | Pedro Luis Domínguez Ruiz

Heat, pests and a problem of productive capacity

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The production of olives, and therefore that of olive oil, has been living a turbulent years. The drought in 2023 put the harvest in check but the return of the rains last year gave the producers a respite. Now the agricultural sector in Jaén has expressed concern about what comes in front. Crisis or regression to the average? Pessimism in forecasts. The coordinator of organizations of farmers and ranchers of Jaén (Coag Jaén) has shown her Concern for this harvest of the olive. Although the association indicates that it is still early to talk about forecasts for harvest, some areas of the province already estimate crops between 30% and 40% below the views last year. Producers They point out several causes Behind this pessimistic forecast, which cover warm episodes as well as the risk of pests, but also the natural phenomenon known as the olive grove. A little propitious meteorology. One of the factors that concern the coordinator is in meteorology. Specifically, the warm episodes we have been living since the end of May. The heat has advanced this year in which the thermometers in several areas of Andalusia came to exceed 40º before the end of the spring month. Of course, this problem may not be extensible to other regions. The rains in the mediterranean environment They could have a positive impact in the crops of the area. Farmers now expect temperatures not to fall during the beginning of the summer in order to reduce the risk of the arrival of Prays. And the pests. There are several pests that threaten the oil harvest this year and among them the most popular is perhaps that of Prays (Prays Oleae), also the so -called olive moth. Already in May, the Junta de Andalucía He warned of “algal levels of attack” associated with this plague. The life of this insect is closely associated with the olive grove and has several annual generations that can affect this plant. The data of the Board are based on the animal’s philophagous generation, which affects the plant leaf. Now the experts They follow the Antophagous Generationwhich affects the plant of the plant. The algodoncillo (Euphyllura Olivina) It is another pest that concern producers. It is another insect whose name derives from the “cotton” appearance that surrounds the nymphs of this invertebrate. The olive grove. Voccas or contracting is a natural phenomenon that occurs in numerous crops. The vocation occurs when crops have difficulties in producing for full performance for two consecutive years. As explained by the coordinator, although in some Jienenses areas the production of last season was “average”, some olive trees “already accuse the verter.” Looking for clues. As Coag Jaén points out in its statementit is still early for truthful estimates of what this year’s harvest will be. As indicated by the Agrarian Association, the olive grove has two “critical” moments for the demand for culture water. The first is the flowering that usually occurs between April and May; The second is maturation, in September. There will be so much to wait a few months before having a definitive idea about what the Cosecha will be like, but what do we know exactly about flowering? The pollen can give us a track. According to Coag Jaén’s own data, the pollen concentration peak in the air occurred on May 19, with 7,711 grains per cubic meter, “far from the maximum peaks of other years when 15,000 grains were exceeded”, in the words of the association. In Xataka | More and more giants get into the Andalusian field and in the olive oil industry. The last: Pepsico Image | Natalia Gusakova

Xàbia set a capacity limit and access control in its two most famous coves. The problem is that nobody wants to take care of it

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In Xàbia they live around 30,000 people. At least according to the INE data, which only formally registered neighbors in the town. If we talk about the summer months and include visitors in the equation, the thing changes and that figure It multiplies exponentially. And it is understandable. Xábia is known for its landscapes, its gastronomy and beaches and coves as portitxol or grenadella. The problem is that this attractive threatens to be a collapse condemnation. One that this year promises Leave images of access to saturated sand. The beaches, face and cross. Having a beach near home in summer is a blessing. And an ordeal. Almost a year ago the residents of O Hío, in Cangas, a town in the Baixas Rías very popular for their sand, protest tourist that suffers every summer. To make clear their position on a Sunday they began to cross a village zebra crossing for minutes and minutes, blocking the traffic of access to the beach area. “The neighbors have the right to live. It is an avalanche of cars that not only contaminates, but affects everyone’s life because they park where they want,” regretted A neighbor. The Baixas Rías are not the only ones who deal with tourists in search of paradisiacal beaches. At the other end of the Peninsula, in Xàbia, the coves also attract thousands of vacationers, many of them aboard cars, which has forced the town to take action To control your transfer. Objective: Ordered beaches. Does Just a year The Alicante municipality presented a special device to control access to two of its most popular coves, the GRANADELLA and the Portitxolwith vigilantes in charge of supervising the passage and a regulated parking system in the street. The idea was simple: from June 1 to 21 (the “middle season”) the accesses were controlled only on weekends; From 21 that supervision became daily until September 13 and then the surveillance focused again on Saturdays and Sundays until October. It was not the only measure. Alicante Plaza Precise That in June 2024 the parking lot in PICT Tort began to be regulated, in the Cala Granadella, and La Barraca (Cala Portitxol). To avoid vehicle collapse, the City Council He chose to resort to a system with “barriers and payment”, which allowed visitors to park for almost all day (from 9 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.) paying nine euros for each vehicle. Once the parking lot was filled, the operators blocked access with barriers. “Avoid bottling”. And even City Hall He installed panels Informative on access roads to the coves so that drivers could know almost in real time the availability of parking spaces in Granadella and Portitxol. “The system tries to prevent the bathers from reaching the point where the control barrier is located and the parking lot is around,” I clarified The councilor of beaches. The idea was that these bathers could “opt for another beach and avoid bottling.” And arrived (almost) the summer of 2025. At the doors of 2025 Xàbia now meets a challenge, according to He revealed yesterday Levante-El Mercantil Valenciano. The newspaper ensures that the contest launched by the local government to take care of the control of access to Granadella and Portitxol seems to have not aroused the interest of any company. Last Monday the envelopes of the candidates opened and the executive discovered that no company had been presented. The exploitation of the service would not even attract the firm that assumed it in recent years. At the end of May Levant He already warned that Xàbia was approaching summer with the beaches without beaconing, anchoring buoys or supervision of access to the beaches. The tender of the surveillance, control and safety service in the coves of the town, which among other things aims to avoid the collapse of cars in Granadella and the Portitxol, would have been launched for a extendable year and a budget of almost 104,000 euros. Now, Clarify the newspaperthat hired has been deserted, the file has been filed and the coves face an uncertain horizon. “There are those who threaten to run over us”. The alleged disinterest in companies comes after drivers will alert last year of the encounters that live in the coves with choleric visitors. One of them admitted in August 2024 to Levante-El Mercantil Having met bathers who, when they find out that they cannot park in the area, take them with the workers, those who threaten or even love to run over. Without barriers or control, parking on the roads to Granadalla and the barrack also suppose a problem. When parking where they should not, cars complicate traffic and even reach hinder the step of firefighters and ambulances. In fact the sands already They have left saturation scenes. Images | Martin_vmorris (Flickr) 1 and 2 In Xataka | Spanish tourism faces the real risk of dying of success. There are already guides that advise three of its great destinations

The capacity descended for the first time in months

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In recent months we have witnessed rainy episodes of great intensity that led to beating various brands. They have also led the reservoirs to reach levels that we had not seen in years. Now we have the summer ahead, and we do not know what will hold us. Exceeded the beak. The reservoirs reached at the end of May the best filling figure so far from 2025 and, with it, their best figure in several years, after a long one he continued that he left many swamps to the edge of the disappearance. Now, the Last data of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge indicate A slight descent In the reservoir water that suggests that we are already past the spring time of bonanza. (Almost) all basins in setback. The Recent figures of the Ministry indicate that the water reserve is 43,038 cubic hectometers (HM³), which implies 76.8% of its capacity. It is therefore slightly below 43,412 hm³ (77.5% of its capacity) with which it had The previous week. TO Basin levelall large peninsular basins have registered descents except for the Basque internal basins, which remain 100% of their capacity, and the Catalan internal, which reached 554 hm³, 81.8% of their capacity after accumulating 4 hm³ more than the previous week. The most pronounced decrease occurred in the basins of the Galician coast, which went from 75.7% of its capacity to 73.7%. The end of spring. The arrival of meteorological summer implies that the average level of the reservoirs has already begun to descend after reaching its peak and will continue to do so until the arrival of the autumn rains. After a week of intense heat and atmospheric stability, rainfall and storms That the last days have affected the north of the peninsula could moderate this decrease for now, but weather forecasts affect that summer is already over us. Forecasts that, in the short term speak of the return of anticyclonic and heat time, with The threat of 40º Celsius again present. In the medium term, predictions also seem to confirm that we are in the middle of summer. The State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) estimates that the next three weeks will be slightly dry than usual for these dates but also provides for them somewhat warmer. Thermal anomalies are planned that could exceed 3rd during the first weeks in some areas, but with positive thermal anomalies in almost the entire country throughout the next three weeks. Uncertain summer. If the forecasts are met, the month of June will be slightly dry but, above all, warmer than usual. From here there is little that we can anticipate without falling into the speculative. The summer of 2024 was Very warm and very humid In most of the country, with 1st Celsius temperatures above the usual in peninsular Spain and rainfall 17% above the usual in the same region. The 2024 was the sixth wettest and most warm summer of the 21st century, and also the most warm sixth of the historical series. We will have to wait to know if the 2025 follows any of these patterns to find out how this affects the swamps of the Iberian Peninsula. In Xataka | Spain has gone from being yellow to green: the impressive impact of the rains, seen from space Image | DronepilotsPainnieto Nieto Granado

China’s military and civil nuclear capacity grows at an unprecedented rate. The US does not take away your eyes off

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China has deservedly consolidated as the country to which all the nations that bet on nuclear energy look. It currently has 58 nuclear reactors whose joint capacity is approximately 61 GWE (electric gigawatts). Besides, It has another 28 reactors under construction that will add additional 33.65 GWE. And just a month ago the State Council approved the construction of 10 more nuclear reactors. China is already the second country with more machines of this type, only behind the US. In any case, the best asset of this Asian country is its commitment to innovation. And the reactor of Molten Sales and Torio TMSR-LF1 is a very valuable letter of presentation. This machine received the approval of the Chinese Nuclear Safety Administration in mid -June 2023 after having successfully completed the initial testing phase that started in 2021. and since then the itinerary that had set the Institute of Applied Physics of Shanghai, which is the institution responsible for its tuning. As explained by the American nuclear engineer Nick Touran In your tweetthe TMSR-LF1 reactor officially entered into operation on October 11, 2023. A few months later, on June 17, 2024, He started working at full power. And on October 8 of last year the technicians who operate it detected protacinium-233 (PA-233), a radioactive isotope intermediate derived from the transformation of the thorium into Uranium-233 as part of the fuel cycle of the thorium. This nuclear reactor is in the Minqin industrial complex of the province of Gansu, in northern China. It has a power of 2 thermal megawatts (MWT), and, although it will not be the first Fourth Generation Nuclear Reactor In activity, and not the first one that Torio will use as fuel, it will be the first of molten salts that will use this chemical element. However, the ambition of this Asian country does not end here; It is already planning to build a molten salts and more capacity sales reactor for 2030. The modernization of China’s nuclear arsenal is accelerating Nuclear physics has two faces. We all know that the knowledge that has given us can be used to generate electricity and favor the development of large population masses, as we have just seen, but it can also be used to produce weapons of mass destruction. China carried out its first test with an atomic bomb in 1964. Initially its scientists had the help of Soviet nuclear engineers, but this alliance was broken in 1959 and the country that was then led by Mao Zedong was forced to continue with this project without having any external help. This isolation did not prevent China from carrying out the first test with a hydrogen bomb in 1967, just three years after launching its first atomic bomb. During the next three decades the Chinese nuclear armament continued advancing, although Mao never aspired to deal with the number of atomic and hydrogen bombs With the US or the Soviet Union first, and Russia later. His doctrine pursued China’s survival by resorting to deterrence, but without directly involving themselves in the cold war that the two hegemonic powers held at the end of the 20th century. “Beijing has the ambition to create a wide sphere of influence in the regions of the Indian and the Pacific, as well as becoming the leading world power” The funny thing is that everything changed during the first decade of the 21st century. China’s economic capacity was growing and its scientific and technical development during the second half of the twentieth century had been out of all doubt. The US government was already realized that this Asian country was consolidating as a superpower Able to dispute your world supremacy. This was the context in which the tension between these two countries was born that seems to be currently reaching its peak. The following literal extract of the document that collects The National Security Strategy Published by the US government in October 2022, it reflects very clearly why it considers China a threat: “The People’s Republic of China (RPC) is the only competitor that has both the intention of remodeling international order and, increasingly, more and more Economic, diplomatic, military and technological capacity To do so. Beijing has the ambition to create a wide sphere of influence in the regions of the Indian and the Pacific, as well as to become the leading world power. “These lines perfectly condense the background history that has triggered the international situation in which we meet. If we stick to its military development the US Department of Defense He estimates that China currently has an arsenal made up of More than 600 nuclear eyeletsand plans to increase this figure until reaching 1,000 eyelets in 2030. USA and Russia have an arsenal of approximately 5,200 and 5,500 eyelets respectively, although many of them are in reserve and others will be dismantled. China has less eyelets, it is evident, but at least rivals with the US if we stick to the sophistication of its intercontinental ballistic missiles, its nuclear submarines, its bomber and its hypersonic missiles. Let us trust that China, the US, Russia and the other nuclear powers enter and stop this climbing of the nuclear weapons. Image | Пресguese More information | US Department of Defense In Xataka | China prepares the mate to the US: it will have its own UVE lithography team to make chips in 2025

tips before buying and how to analyze the real capacity of one you have

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There is nothing worse than buying a USB and seeing that you have less memory than they had told you, or that is defective. Therefore, we are going to give you some tips to prevent you from buying a USBboth before making the purchase and once you have done it. We will start with a series of rapid tips on How to avoid scams when buying a USB onlinewhy, sometimes sellers can lie, and it is convenient to have some resources to avoid it. Then we will tell you how to check a USB and see its real memory, and so know if you should return it because they have scammed you or not. I prevents you from being able to sell you a USB We are now with a series of tips to avoid deception in online stores when you are going to buy a USB pendrive. These are some very essential tips that you should always take into account. Look well in descriptions: The pendrive seller may put one thing in the head of the online store’s announcement to get your attention, something that is not very precise, and that is why you must carefully read the characteristics in the descriptions. Find there all the information you can about the unit. Look at the USB version: The USB standard has several versions, and the newer it is faster. If a pendrive is absurdly cheap possibly use the USB 2.0 standard of the year 2000, and it will be very slow. It should be assured that if you are looking for a USB of type A, the great “usual”, use the most modern USB 3.0 standard. Look comments and reviews: If you are in an online store, you should look in the product comments section before buying it. Thus, you can detect complaints that are recurring and that they point out that the USB is not what it seems in some aspects. Distrust of very low prices: As we have told you a couple of points before, when the price of memory is very low, it is possible that there is a trap related to the USB standard version, or that it is even a fraud. That is why they have a high guard with especially low prices. Be careful with little known brands and stores: Try to buy in online stores that you know perfectly, and above all that have comments section. It also tries to resort to consolidated brands of USB, even if they are somewhat more expensive, because this gives you an extra security guarantee. Verify newly bought positives: When you buy an online product you have about 15 days to return. Therefore, if you buy a USB memory, it is important that you verify the amount of memory that you have promised and that it is of the right speed. The fastest type A USB have a blue plasticize that makes them recognizable, for the amount of memory you will need a specific program. How to check the storage of a USB pendrive Imagine you buy a USB of 64 GB but it really has only 32 GB. Or that has 64 GB but half are defective areas that make you lose the data you enter. How can you look at this? To do so you need a specific program that allows you to do it. We recommend you The program Validrivefree available on the web www.grc.com/validrive.htm. It is a completely free, light and very effective program. What he does is Verify the real storage of USB memories before users suffer important losses. The application weighs less than 100 kb, and is portable, so it does not require installing it. It is created for Windowsand you just have to open it and voila. Validrive performs tests of 576 regions of the device connected by USB, analyzing the real reading and writing capacity. It also shows you the results in a visual way, putting the defective areas in red, also indicating other errors. To use it, you just need to launch the application, and in the main menu click on Check USB Drive With a connected unit. Then you will begin to see the tests in real time, and then the results will be shown. You also have other alternatives such as H2TESTW (also free)a more veteran tool although it is not so fast or easy to use. In Xataka Basics | Buy a USB-C cable: 9 things to consider

Goal has an excellent reason to launch a gigantic flame variant 4: Specialization capacity

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Goal advertisement Last Saturday the launch of flame 4, his new family of Open Source models of IA. The company takes chest with three multimodal variants and one especially striking for being absolutely huge in size. But it is for a good reason. Hello, call 4. It has been almost a year since the goal announced Call 3and his new family of models arrives with three different variants: Call 4 scout: the most “small”, which competes with Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-lite and Mistral 3.1. Call 4 Maverick: Compete with GPT-4O, Gemini 2.0 Flash and Deepseek v3 Call 4 Behemoth: An absolute monster that as Meta surpasses GPT-4.5, Gemini 2.0 and Claude 3.7 in various benchmarks. The latter is not demomently available publicly. Amazing context window. These models offer a context window of 10 million tokens, something simply spectacular. That means we can enter a gigantic amount of data such as entry (PROMPT), for example huge code repositories on which to work directly. Mixture-Of-Experts. These models use mixture -of-ou-explet architecture that already took advantage for example Depseek. As we explain then, this allows to divide the model into “experts” that activates according to the type of request. That improves efficiency and has proven to be a fantastic technique for models to behave optimally with much less resources consumption. Scout has 16 experts and Maverick has 128. This type of architecture also favors the inference phase, or what is the same: the models will respond not only efficiently, but fast and fluid. Call 4 Behemoth, the “Model Professor”. It is not yet available, but this variant is absolutely huge and has two billion parameters (2T in English), when calling 3, which was huge (405b) was a five times smaller model. Deepseek R1 has 671,000 million parameters, three times less that calls 4 Behemoth. The key to this model is that it serves as “teacher” for smaller and, above all, specialized variants. The flame 4 comparative table with respect to some of its rivals. Specialization. This variant is also a perfect candidate to be “distilled” and starting from it to obtain much smaller but equally capable models that “learn” from that “teacher teacher” that is call 4, but adapting to more concrete areas and scenarios and in which they can highlight. And less censorship. OpenAI’s image generator He already took a 180º turn and applies much less inspired censorship By Grok 3. Goal does the same with flame 4, which according to the company has become “responds with a strong political inclination at a rate comparable to Grok in a controversial set of political or social issues.” Thus, we have a somewhat less “politically correct” model. For now debatable results. Although the model seems to score very well in benchmarks, experts like Simon Willinson They have tried it And they ensure that their first impressions are not especially remarkable. Gemini 2.5 Pro seems to behave much better in one of the tests he performed when summarizing and analyzing a text. However, with flame 3 something similar happened, and both calls 3.1 and calls 3.2 significantly improved their behavior. They can already be tested. Call 4 is now available In WhatsAppInstagram, Facebook or the website of Goal AI. And once again, experts offers the possibility of download italthough you will basically need a cluster with a lot, a lot of memory to be able to run them at home. They are also available in Huggingface. And soon “will reason”. Mark Zuckerberg Indian In its Instagram account that in addition to these models, next month we will see a model called 4 reasoning that will be the company’s first reasoning model. It is an especially interesting variant, especially when competing with Deepseek R1 (and its successor, which It will appear soon). Images | Goal In Xataka | Great technology have determined something this year: that we end up talking to an AI

We lead all my life by measuring battery capacity in mobiles. Mah’s war makes no sense

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How many more mah, better. We have been thinking about the specifications of a phone and, to a large extent, is something true. A greater capacity battery is usually a more capable battery with respect to a smaller. Despite this, there is a somewhat more complex unit of measure, but even more precise, traditionally used in the technical sheet of computers: Los watts-Hora (WHE). This is the most precise way to determine how long we can use our device, without leaving the capacity to your fate. We are going to explain, without delving too much into technicalities so as not to complicate your life, why we have been imprecisely measuring the battery capacity of our mobiles. Why do we measure in mah. The commercial standard for the phones battery is the Miliamperio Hora, a very useful measure for small devices with constant voltages. In addition, it is much more striking to indicate closed figures, such as 5,000mAh, than to tell that your mobile has a 19.4 Wh. However, its two main problems are, in the first place, when there is a voltage variation (you will soon understand why) this measure ceases to make sense. Although MAH is easy to understand, it does not provide an exact estimate of available energy, which can lead to incorrectly assume how long the battery will last in specific situations of use. Water measurement time. The watts -hora (WH) are the most precise unit to measure battery capacity, since they reflect the amount of energy available depending on voltage and current. He watt (w) It is the power unit, which indicates how much energy is consumed per unit of time. It is more useful to know how the battery will be used during the daily use of your mobile. The battery voltage is not constant: it is varying as its percentage of load and useful life changes. A battery, At the end of your useful lifeIt does not provide the same voltage as when it is new. In fact, if you have a modern car or motorcycle, you surely have access to real time voltage and you will see how you change as you use the vehicle. The mobile battery is lowercase compared to these, but also suffers small voltage variations. The ease of calculation. Even if the voltage was constant, the watts time would be an ideal measure. For example, if your mobile phone had a 5,000mAh battery and a typical voltage (the most common in phones) of about 3.85V, that battery would translate into 19.25 WH (capacity (MAH X Voltage / 1,000). Knowing the data, it would be enough to know the consumption in watts to deduce almost exactly how much the battery would last. In a concrete situation, as a very demanding game that leads to consume 6W constantly the division would be easy: 19.25 wh/6W = 3.2h. A data that stables: about three hours of screen with the mobile spending all rag This is why in segments such as computers, where consumption is crucial and marketing (something) less important, WHH is established as a standard to measure battery capacity. Image | Apple In Xataka | A battery that is not wearing after 850 cycles. This group of researchers has made it possible

V3 earlier than expected, but with half a capacity

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The two consecutive explosions of Starship, related to the design changes of its V2 versionThey have made SpaceX to readjust the highest rocket roadmap in the world. As usual, we have learned for a message from Elon Musk in X. The message in question. “We are making the design of Starship v3”, Musk wrote. “Spacex is on its way to achieving a launch rhythm of a starship per week in approximately 12 months.” “Each one will put about 100 tons of Starlink satellites in its fully reusable version. It will be a transcendental advance.” Context. He Starship rocket It is in tests and has not begun to launch satellites. The current design does not exceed the load capacity of a Spacex heavy falcon. When Elon Musk presented the V2 and V3 versionsdescribed a radical leap. They would be higher, totally reusable and with an unprecedented power in the space industry. Starship V2 would grow up to 124.4 meters high and could place more than 100 tons in orbit in its fully reusable configuration (that is, recovering both the super heavy propeller and the ship). Starship V3 would grow up to 150 meters high and place more than 200 tons in low orbit in reusable mode. The changes. Musk’s message suggests that Spacex has focused its efforts on Ultimar Starship V3 after incidents of the last two tests. Although Starship V2 has not fully materialized (on flights 7 and 8, a Starship Block 2 ship threw itself on a super heavy block 1), something does not go well with the second block of rocket improvements. The change of plans is reflected in which Starship V3 will have half of the planned load capacity. Specifically, 100 tons in its reusable configuration is what Spacex had announced for Starship V3. What happened to Starship V2. The second version of the ship has flown twice (Starship 33 and Starship 34) with the same result: leakage and explosion in the ascent phase, before the motion off. The new design has a defect that produces an excess of vibrations in the lower part of the ship, which causes the propellant tubes to break and have leaks. On flight 7 caused a fire and on flight 8 the explosion and loss of several engines. Waiting for the Raptor 3. Despite these problems, there is a new Starship V2 flight scheduled for April. Starship V3 will have to wait for New Raptor 3 engines 3 are ready. The new engines have more thrust and incorporate an integrated cooling system that eliminates the need for an external thermal shield. Image | Spacex In Xataka | While rumors point to a design error in Starship, Elon Musk has been blunt: “He will go to Mars next year”

In a corner of Andalusia the reservoirs are at 94% of their capacity. It seems excellent news, but it is not so much

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Until a few months ago, drought was a problem that affected almost the entire country, even to the greatest northern areas that saw an important reduction in rainfall and even the introduction of temporary water savings measures. Now the situation has changed, although the threat is still in force in some areas of the country, especially along the Mediterranean coast. Odiel, red and stones, the exception. However, if we look at one of the maps that show us the Situation of Basin Reservoirs Hydrographic, perhaps otherwise what caught our attention. Surrounded by the great hydrographic basins of Guadiana and Guadalquivir, the Odiel basin, red and stones seems to show us a humid anomaly in the south of the Peninsula. The swamps of the basin are, according to the Last data availableat 94.3% of its capacity. This makes it the second largest hydrographic basin, behind the Internal Basins of the Basque Country (95.2%) and ahead of basins such as Galicia coast (87.6%) and the Eastern Cantabrian (83.6%). A figure that contrasts in a striking way with the state of the reservoirs in the hydrographic basins of its surroundings: 48.4% in the Pantans of the Guadiana, 40.5% in those of the Guadalquivir, and 30.5% in Guadalete-Barbate. What happens in this little basin for? Statistical issue? The first thing we can consider is statistics. The Hydrographic Basin of Los Ríos Odiel, Tinto and Piedras is a small basin, both in extension and capacity: the swamps of this Huelva basin can store a maximum of 229 cubic hectometers (HM³). Surrounded by greater extension demarcations, such as those of the Guadiana and the Guadalquivir, the most similar basin in extension in the south would be that of the Guadalete-Barbate. However, the Cadiz basin has A capacity of 1,651 hm³. This fact could justify the anomaly due to pure statistics: less capacity would imply greater ease for filling and emptying, more variability and with it more likely that at some time of time extreme values ​​are achieved. The problem is that the reservoirs of this area have been maintained rather persistent as the most full of the south. Rainfall. One of the reasons why the Odiel, Tinto and Piedras Rivers Basin attracts attention is due to the general contrast with the southern basins of the Peninsula, which in turn is associated with the fact that the South receives less rainfall than the north. Although that is true if we compare the north third with the rest of the country, the truth is that the image It is more complexand Andalusia is a good example of this. In Andalusia it exists A marked difference in rainfall between The Eastern Zone and the rest of the Autonomous Community, especially in the West. The province of Huelva is usually among those that receive the most water, being the north of the province one of the regions that record the most rainfall. To that we must add that 2024 was A slightly more wet year than the average in almost the entire province of Huelva. The beginning of 2025 has exacerbated this trend, with almost the entire province receiving more than double water than average During the month of January. The “dead” reservoir. The reservoirs of the Odiel basin, red and stones receive a lot of water, yes, but also others in Western Andalusia. To explain the phenomenon of this basin, perhaps we also have to attend to emptying. And here we find another determining factor: the reservoirs of this basin do not empty the same ease. The reason is pollution. This basin has a peculiarity, that of reservoirs useless for the contamination of its waters. To illustrate it, the El Sancho reservoir, The “Dead Reservoir” of the Odiel Basin. The waters of this reservoir are extremely acidic, with a pH value close to 3.6, to which high concentrations of toxic metals must be added, as explained In an article for The conversation Manuel Olías and José Miguel Nieto, both experts from the University of Huelva. The reservoir is in a situation of Perennial filling at 82.76%contributing 48 hm³ of waters to the accounts of the reservoirs of a basin that add up to a capacity, remember, of 216 hm³. The problem Nor is it exclusive of the El Sancho reservoir. Complementary explanations. None of the three explanations (size, rainfall and pollution) explains in itself the state of the reservoirs in this basin, but as a whole they can explain the anomaly of this basin and the associated problem. In Xataka | We have been trying to understand why droughts are more destructive than ever. We start having some idea Image | Miteco / Rodelar

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