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Byd promised them very happy with his new plant in Mexico. He has just canceled all his plans

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In February 2024, the rumor that Byd was interested in building a factory in Mexico began to gain strength. And, contrary to what usually happens in other cases, for last year there was already talk of possible locations and even the jobs that were going to be created in a specific installation. None of that will happen. Canceled. At least in the short term. Because according to Stella Li, BYD vice president, they are “waiting for greater security before making a decision”, in words collected by Bloomberg. And, according to LI, all brands “are rethinking their strategy” because geopolitical motifs that have “a great impact on the automobile industry.” The answer comes just when the company seeks its expansion in America. To do this, a factory is raising in Brazil (in which they were accused of hard treatment to their workers) but wanted to take Mexico as a basis for an expansion in North America. USA. The biggest problem for this expansion seems to be the Government of Donald Trump. The US government is using tariffs as a pressure measure against other countries, which directly impacts the automobile industry. In order for these tariffs not to impact vehicles, Byd would have to ensure that the components used do not pass through the neighboring country since would make the final product. Without the possibility of selling cars in the United States, playing with the price is key to competing with maximum guarantees in Mexico. And not just the United States. Although the cancellation, at least temporary, of the Mexican factory of byd seems to focus on the US administration, Financial Times He assured a few months ago that China also did not see with good eyes The implementation of the company to the south of the country since they believed that it could be a risk of industrial espionage. Everything indicates that, once confirmed that Byd could not sell their Chinese cars in the United States as a result of the New standard approved by the then executive of Joe Bidenfrom the Asian country they wanted to throw the brake. In June 2024 There was already talk that the country that Donald Trump now runs was Byd’s true goal on his arrival in Mexico. Advanced? What is not entirely clear is to what extent the company’s plans were advanced. A little later, Already in August last yearIt seemed that we had three candidates to host the arrival of the Byd factory. Then it was said that all locations were in the center of the country but Reuters It didn’t give more data. In January, the plant size began to speculate. It was said that the factory would use 10,000 people And that would bend the one that Tesla had planned to build in Nuevo León and that, finally, Nor has it finished getting ahead. Months later, Trump would hit the manufacturers hard that produce totally or partially in Mexico The cars sold in the United States. However, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexican president, already pointed in March that “they have a proposed investment, but it was never something formal”, in relation to the possible locations that could be of the plant. Now, it does not seem to continue advancing in the short term. Photo | Byd and Roger CE In Xataka | We tried the eye of God with which byd wants to break the market: autonomous driving for a 9,000 euros car

The diamond industry promised them happy with the jewels cultivated in the laboratory. Until prices sank

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Few things better symbolize luxury than a good diamond. They shine in the shop windows of the most exclusive miles in Paris, Milan or New York, in Hands of Hollywood actresses and in The watches of the most sought -after soccer players on the planet. However, they do not run good times for precious stones. Not at least if we talk about your price. A perfect storm in which intrinsic factors are mixed and alien to the sector has shame its price until it is left, according to Some analystsin minimums that were not seen so far from the century. The big question is … What can we expect now? Prices, falling. It doesn’t matter which source is consulted. They do not run Good times For diamonds. The maximum expression of luxury, the great symbol of opulence, has been seeing how its value slides through a slope that moves it away from the dimensions that reached between 2021 and 2022, when the sector lived a “Exceptional demand” in the US market thanks to couples who had postponed their commitments or weddings for COVID-19. A few days ago Barcharta financial data platform, shared A graph which reflects the descending curve that precious stones have drawn from 2022 to place in what the signature considers “its lowest level of the century.” He Price index Paul Zimnisky for raw diamonds also show a “puncture” from the pandemic, although without even minimal record. And the panorama is similar in the graphics of Diamondse either Princescopewhich reflect the lowest values ​​from at least 2008 for natural jemas. Click on the image to go to Tweet. What show the figures? That if we talk about quotes, the diamond industry has lived better years. In February Bloomberg calculated that in a matter of two years prices had fallen almost 50% in the case of raw diamonds and 35% in polished stones. More or less for the same dates The Guardian revealed that in stores natural diamonds cost 26% less than two years ago, a considerable fall but that pales compared to the accumulated since 2020 by the created in the laboratory. Citing A Tenoris, a firm that tracks the prices of diamonds in more than 2,000 US stores, the British newspaper I pointed that at the end of last year the average price of a natural diamond of a quilate marked $ 4,997. In May 2022 it exceeded 6,800 pounds. In the case of “artificial” diamonds, $ 3.410 had passed in January from 2020 to 892 at the end of 2024. In their graphics Pricescope and Diamondse They also show falls. A perfect storm. The big question arrived at this point is … why? What motivates that price drop? The reality is that there is no single answer, but a cocktail of them, a mixture of factors that have impacted the market. Analysts point to a Change in demand After the health crisis, when prices rose thanks to the increase in postpandemic sales. Others point out the “puncture” of weddings, especially in the US, which is equivalent to less alliances and commitment rings; or even The effects of the Ukraine War in the sector. Another factor that explains the collapse is the behavior of the Chinese market, crucial for the industry. In February Bloomberg estimated that its demand had been reduced by 50% from the pandemia. And not just that. Citing experts in the sector, the agency said that, on average, the retailers of the Asian giant were returning to the wholesale market of India between 30 and 40 million dollars each month in surpluses of polished diamonds. All this in an economic context challenging For Beijing. Natural vs “artificial”. If something has really influenced the world diamond industry, beyond that we get married more or less, the covid hangover or the fall in demand in China, is the appearance of a new product in the market: the “synthetic” diamondscultivated in the laboratory and that have marked a before and after in the sector. Instead of requiring Millions of years of formation, as is the case with the mined natural jemas, a “synthetic” stone can take shape in a laboratory in a record time: a few weeks or Even hours. “Synthetic” diamonds are not exactly new. Its origins can go back to the 50s. However, in recent times they have broken into the market for several reasons. One of them is that their origins are easier to track than those of the mined jemas, which has gone “More ethical”especially in the eyes of the Millenials. Also influence its appearance and price, which becomes 70% lower to the natural stones. “They are much bigger stones,” Comment a jeweler to The Guardian. “About two or three more times. In laboratory, three carats is normal, even four or five.” Its attractiveness has caught attention Even of jewelry brands and watches specialized in luxury, in some cases with welcome in the market that exceed expectations. Of course, not everyone thinks the same. “They are synthetic, a bulk created product, without history. The price will continue to fall,” Vaticin Another jeweler. Winning weight in the market. In 2023 Five days public A graph (supporting tenoris data and the billing of 1,300 retailers of the sector) that demonstrate the growing weight of the diamonds grown in a key segment of the market: that of the US commitment rings. If at the beginning of 2021 they represented only 3.5%, in the summer of 2023 that percentage was already approaching 18%. In February The Guardian He went further and assured that synthetic diamonds already supposed 45% of the bridal jewelry market. The problem is that this growing weight has come accompanied by another word that analysts also frequently repeat: Overproduction. The analyst Paul Zimnisky was warned in March in An interview with The New York Times: “We are seeing that a small group of very large producers in China and India are increasing production with faster and better processes, and every time they do … Read more

Waymo promised them very happy as a world leader in Robotaxis. Now Baidu has just advanced on the right

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Chinese robotaxis just advanced the United States for the first time in the race for autonomous transport. Baidu announced that his service Apollo Go has completed 11 million tripsovercoming the 10 million reported by Waymo. Why is it important. This advance marks a turning point in a technology that defines the future of urban transport. China has needed only two and a half years to overcome the company that launched the first completely autonomous service in the world in 2020, after a long stage of R&D as part of the “Other bets“From Google. The contrast. General Motors announced that He left his Cruise project At the end of 2024 after spending 10,000 million dollars on it. Motion had to pause its operations for economic causes. Meanwhile, Weride and Pony.aiboth Chinese, expand through Europe and the Middle East thanks to alliances with Uber. In Xataka I have tried a totally autonomous taxi. This is traveling without driver In figures: A journey in Robotaxi costs 35 cents per mile in China. That same trip costs about 2 dollars in the United States. China and its 1.4 billion inhabitants make up a market that quadruples to the American. That is a natural advantage of scale impossible to replicate. The panoramic. China has built its advantage over three pillars: Favorable regulations in more than 50 cities. Competitive automotive supply chains worldwide. Enthusiast government support that considers the autonomous car as a key area of ​​innovation. {“Videid”: “X8Clg26”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Baidu World 2022 Say hello to the apollo rt6, Baidu’s Next-Gen Av”, “Tag”: “Baidu”, “Duration”: “53”} And now what. Tesla announced that I was going to launch his service in Austin this monthbut competition has been globalized. Baidu is already testing in Hong Kong and United Arab Emirates, with filtered plans to do the same in Switzerland and Türkiye. Nevertheless, Chinese companies are still looking for financing: Not even its huge market by population serves to survive in a sector that has not yet achieved black numbers. Deepen. McKinsey estimates that the robotaxis will not reach commercial scale until 2030, requiring billions of extra dollars to achieve a completely autonomous capacity. In Xataka | There are only two confirmed data of the launch of the Xiaomi Yu7: that we do not know its price and that the waiting list is one year Outstanding image | Apollo Go (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Waymo promised them very happy as a world leader in Robotaxis. Now Baidu has just advanced on the right It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Lacort .

Ten years ago, we were happy with microSD cards on mobile phones. The manufacturers have killed them for a good reason

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Far was that time when buying a MicroSD card It was practically an essential for our mobile phone. The mobiles from ten years ago They came with a scarce internal memory (8, 16 GB), insufficient for devices that, despite their limitations at the hardware level, recorded Full HD video and had an ecosystem rich in applications. Today, it is increasingly difficult to find devices compatible with this memory expansion. And, yes, this is good news. The golden age of the microSD. There was a time in using an SD was the best possible option on an Android mobile. In fact, the operating system itself allowed to move some of the apps to external memories, releasing the local memory of this load. In 2010, Android 2.2 Froyo He had this option as a native from the adjustments, something that remained immovable until years later. The key was that Android was a much more insecure system than is now. In fact, with Android 6.0 It was possible to expand system storage using microSD cards. The party is over. There are two milestones that mark the progressive disappearance of MicroSD cards on Android. The first is the Popularization of Unibody mobiles: The end of the removable housings. The extra groove to incorporate the SD next to the SIM (or double SIM) hinders stagnant designs, somewhat incompatible with the Current IP protocols They protect the water and dust device. The second reason is imposed by Google with Android, and that is that the operating system was progressively restricting the permissions until they prevent them from moving apps to the SD, limiting it only to the passage of files. Reading speed. As internal memory modules have been improving progressively, reading and writing speed has shot in recent years. A UHS-1 micro SD around 200 MB/s reading speed (speeds that are never reached). EMMC’s most modern standards (slower technology in internal memories, only used in low range) can double this figure. If we talk about UFS memories, standards such as UFS 2.2 around real writing speeds close to GB, something that doubles with UFS 3.1 and almost quadruplica with UFS 4.0. Next to nothing. The size of the apps has increased considerably in recent years, as well as their requirements, and moving them from an SD is not too realistic. The focus on security. By default, the memory of any commercialized Android mobile comes encrypted, something that protects the local data of the device. SD memories do not come with this protection layer, nor do they meet the requirements to do so. Android is an increasingly sure system And, according to the latest data, it is exposed to 90% less malware than in 2016 thanks to the Play Protect scanguaranteed windows of security patches, Automatic reset and constant purge of fraudulent applications in Play Storeamong others. The microSD today. Although relegated in general terms to low -cost mobiles, The MicroSD continues to give a dummy In 2025. If your mobile has support for them, you can continue moving simple apps such as Telegram or Instagram (giants such as WhatsApp do not allow it), and even some games allow you to send part of your reading data to the SD. The same goes for multimedia: nothing prevents us from saving and reproducing content from a microSD card externally. The limitation of speed and stability (if you use a low quality microSD) will be present, but the function has not died at all. A necessary evil. Smartphones manufacturers and Google itself have been closing the door to microSD cards. It is a evil necessary to improve the stability of the system, to make Android a safer platform and continue allowing the apps to grow (in size and requirements) to the frantic rhythm to which hardware evolves. Image | Samsung In Xataka | It is 2024 and I still use an SD card on my mobile: what can I do and what is different about the storage of my phone

We promised them happy with the 7,000mah batteries. But Android is still Android

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I have been able to try the Realme GT 7one of the first phones in the market (generalist, no gaming) with 7,000mAh battery. A full -fledged mobile with a battery whose duration is good, but not superlative. The point is that this is not the first time something like that happens to me. I have tried mobiles with 4,500mAh batteries that lasted a lot more than others with 5,000Mah. Mobile with 5,000MAH with completely disparate durations, and then we have Apple with a 4,600mAh battery that lasts more than some much larger. Not everything is the ability. Welcome is the ability. Between 7,000mah and 5,000mah I have it clear: big horse. A battery with greater nominal capacity, to equal optimization and consumption of the components, is a battery aimed at having a longer duration. A clear example is the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge With its 3,900mah battery. Miracles do not exist and, with that capacity and the screen of a Galaxy S25+I was destined to have a battery that lasts little. Android is very Android. Android is a relatively free system, and this has as many advantages as inconvenience. There is nothing more efficient at an energy level than an AOSP ROM, based on “Pure Android” and with hardly any background processes. The issue is that manufacturers want to put their icing: customization layers. Although they provide added value, starting to build on Android is not simple, and adding both applications and extra processes, sometimes, does not work out. If a version is not optimized, it will devour resources, have the physical battery that the device has. There are even more elements. To the optimization that each manufacturer has to do in the system if you want the ROM to work well, you have to add that each phone element (screen, modem, Bluetooth, Wifi), has its associated controllers. A bad optimization or adjustment in the software that manages basic hardware elements can translate into triggered consumption. And, beyond optimization, hardware elements themselves can consume more or less. There are more or less efficient screens, there are more or less efficient processors, thermal management … The cocktail to create a mobile with a battery that lasts what must last is complex. The solutions. Sometimes, it is best to admit that there is no solution. If your mobile lasts little because milliamps are missing, there is no way out. In the opposite case, there is hope. If a telephone has a brutal battery, but it does not last enough, it is necessary to know the manufacturer to work in an update that solves it. It is not something, unfortunately, too common. But it is neither the first nor the last time that a phone does not work as fine in launch and, within a few weeks, it all starts stabilizing. In fact, this is not just an Android problem, although the system is more prone to these instabilities in the battery. I still remember The terrible battery of the iPhone 12 Pro. Yes, he had “only 2.815mah”, but the iPhone 13 pro lasted much more with 300mAh more. Super -healing problems, a total (health) capacity that touched 80% in just one year of use … Image | Xataka In Xataka | Save battery on your mobile: 28 things that increase their consumption on Android or iPhone and you can avoid

The countries that drink beer around the world, exposed in this happy graphic

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There are more than 2,000 million people drink alcohol often, according to The World Health Organization. Within these data are the Beer drinkersa drink that, Like coffeeit is one of the most consumed in the world. Logically due to its population, China has been dominating as the country that consumes more beer In the world. But if we look at the consumption of per capita beer, the thing changes. And here it only remains to ask … what happens in the Czech Republic. The Czechs is one thing. The Kirin Group public At the end of last year a report on world beer consumption based on questioning sent to beer associations from different countries and industry reports, and is the basis on which Visual Capitalist He has elaborated the graph that you have on these lines. In it, we can see that many countries are quite aligned in per capita annual consumption, but there is one that is notable: Czech Republic. According to these data, the country’s per capita consumption was 152.1 liters per year. It is a figure that is far, far from the 106.5 liters of the Austrians, of the 103.3 liters of the Lithuanians and the 100.6 liters of the Irish, who are the ones that complete the list of countries with consumption above 100 liters. Heritage. Kirin’s report points out that most countries have remained in the same positions that occupied the previous year, but with a notable rise in Croatia, which passes from position ten to five in 2024. Consumption in Spain is not far behind, but there are more and more reports that point to a decrease in consumption In Spanish lands. Let’s go back to the Czech Republic for a moment, since it is a country where beer serves you in bars, unless you say they stop doing it. As in Germany or Belgium, they have recognized the beer culture as part of its national heritage. The three have cataloged the drink and its preparation as an intangible cultural asset, something that is not yet on the Unesco heritage list, but that reflects the importance that the drink has in each of the nations. Because this goes beyond the product, bottled beer, but covers The whole process. It is a celebration of the cultivation of hops and barley, traditional beer trades, the social role of taverns in both rural and urban areas and the role it plays in everyday life. Interestingly, in the list, Belgium occupies much lower positions of consumption. Leaving Europe. This beer tradition permeates consumption worldwide and therefore, although Europe is not the leading territory, it does have the countries where each citizen drinks more liters a year. To find the first non -European country, we must go down to 13th place, where Panama is. Here we start seeing countries like Mexico (15), Gabon (16) or South Africa (18). The United States, which also acquired a wide beer culture fruit of all the miscegenation of the country, is in 27th position with 63.1 liters per capita and curious is the 25th place in the United Kingdom with 65.5 liters. Zero-Ceroseseism. These data, remember, belong to the study prepared by Kirin, but, liter above, liter below, the top positions with that Czech Republic at the head of world beer consumption are something that remains in other statistics. Now, within all the beer consumed in Europe, there is something that is taking impulse: The production of alcohol without alcohol. In 2023 se They produced 34.3 billion liters of beer (being Germany, Spain and Poland the ones that most fermented), 1.8 billion Liters without alcoholbut although it seems little, it is an increase of 13.5% compared to beer data with less than 0.5% alcohol of 2022. And it occurs more because it is also consumed more. In Spain, for example, in 2023 it was consumed 3.5% more of alcohol -free beer than in 2022. We will see if that increase in the consumption of beer without alcohol, something that already shows in advertising, and the decline of alcohol consumption in young Europeans becomes a trend and how it influences these annual statistics. In Xataka | Alcohol kills, but not everyone equally: why Spain and Italy consume more but die less

Three months ago I bought the Mac Mini M4. I’m happy with him, but I wish I would have waited for his new offer

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After the problems I had a few months ago With my two computers (one desktop and another laptop) with Windows, I decided to buy the Mac Mini M4 To work. I am very happy with him, offers excellent performance and paid a good price: 659 euros. And it is not that I regret buying it, but if I had waited only three months I could have taken a better discount, since Mediamarkt has it lowered during its Apple Days for 629 euros. It is not a big price difference, but That money could have been destined to some accessories that I have had to buy (to adapt the peripherals to the Tugerbolt port, especially). * Some price may have changed from the last review One of Apple devices with better value for money He Mac Mini M4 It is a perfect computer to work. Although I had already seen it in analysis, photographs and videos, It is surprising to open the package and find such a compact computer “In fact, it fits in the palm of my hand. It is also very silent: at no time have I heard it, and it is very appreciated above all if we want to concentrate to perform a certain task. Now, the interesting thing about the MAC Mini M4 resides rather in what it offers hardware. On the one hand we have the M4 chip of Apple that offers excellent performance and very good power in virtually any task —Salvo in video games, although some games can be played. For example, I use several browsers, I have about 15 or 20 tabs, I use an image editor and I have several open apps. So far I have not had any problems; The MAC works at a thousand wonders. The offer model brings a configuration of 16 GB of unified memory and 256 GB of internal storage (SSD). Perhaps the latter can be just, but the SATECHI hub support It is a good complement to add an SSD, in addition to several USB-A ports. To finish off, the MAC Mini M4 is compatible with Apple Intelligence (Apple artificial intelligence functions), includes a total of five Thunderbolt ports (two in the front and three on the rear), a 3.5 mm, Ethernet and also an HDMI Jack port. In the case of wanting to use two monitors, one of the Thunderbolt ports can be used (I have it with him Ugreen adapter). You may also be interested in these peripherals for the Mac Mini M4 Logitech MX Ergonomic wireless vertical mouse, multi -ordering, 2.4 GHz/Bluetooth with USB unifying receptor, 4000 dpi optical follow -up, 4 buttons, fast charge – black – black * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech mx keys mini minimalist wireless keyboard, compact, bluetooth, backlit, USB -C, compatible with Apple Macos, iOS, Windows, Linux, Android, Metal, Grafite Color – Qwerty Spanish * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Alberto García In Applesfera, Apple In Xataka | MacBook Air M4 vs Mackbook Air M3: These are the main differences between the two models In Xataka | MacBook Air vs MacBook Pro: We explain which one to choose

Wind energy were happy to promise their expansion in Colombia. Until he ran into indigenous communities

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La Guajira is one of the departments poorer from Colombia, home of Wayuu indigenous people and a land shaken by some of the strongest winds in the country (there is talk of gusts of 11 m/sa 100 meters high), which has turned the region into a key protagonist of the Government’s commitment to renewable energies. The problem is that these pieces are not easy to fit. As the wind turbines have been raising in La Guajira they have also done it The voices in local communities that warn of their impact and see the green revolution with distrust. There are those who already speak of “The Wind War”. “Only with the energy of La Guajira …” La Guajira, a Caribbean region located northwest of Colombia, It has sun And wind, which makes it a strategic piece for renewables in the country. He made it clear In 2023 President Gustavo Petro, when during the signing of the Pact for the transition Energy said the department has potential for 25 GW. “With the clean energy of La Guajira at its maximum, we could replace Colombia’s electricity generation, including hydroelectric plants,” He stressed. Mill display. He is not the only one who thinks. La Guajira offers a panorama attractive enough so that over recent years it has caught the attention of companies in the sector. In 2019 the Indepaz Institute I calculated that throughout the next decade up to 57 wind projects promoted by 19 companies could be built, many of them linked to multinationals. In summary: tens of thousands of hectares and several thousand self -generators. For now, BBC points out that in the region there are 15 parks under construction that will be added to existing ones, such as Guajira 1with a power of 20 MW. Something more than wind. La Guajira is nevertheless more than a territory in which to lift wind turbines. The Peninsula is also home to Wayuu peoplean indigenous community that has seen how the soil he occupies for generations became the object of desire for energy. With all that that implies. “The situation is complicated since many companies, several of them, began to arrive with the intention of developing renewable projects,” explained A year ago Mikel Berraondo, a lawyer specialized in human rights and indigenous peoples, in an article published in The country. To that factor is added another, just as relevant. According to data from the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) of Colombia, at least in 2022 La Guajira was the second department of the country with a Greater poverty index. His fact only overcame him. The area too stands out In studies on “multidimensional poverty” and according to data collected in 2022 in the middle Portfolio Thousands of homes also lack electrical connection. The wind war. The situation in La Guajira has tensioned so much that there are those who already speak of “The Wind War”. And the reason is not so much wind projects themselves as the way they are being deployed. Critical voices They speak of lack of impact studies and a limited participation of communities in the benefits generated by parks. They also question how traditional authorities that represent the peoples settled in the region for centuries have been consulted, which would have in turn referred to conflicts. “Disturb our dreams”. In An article Prepared two years ago María M. Monsalve explains that the Wayuu have questioned the previous consultations that, theoretically, should ensure that the development of wind projects is not done back to them. The reason: according to critics, there are closed pacts with people who do not hold the property of the land or have decision -making capacity. The equation is complicated by the existence of different authorities in the communities, the debate on how to compensate them or the impact of plants on the culture of the natives. “At night, the noise of the turbines disturbs our dreams. For us they are sacred,” Point to the BBC José L. Iguarán. When he now leaves his house in La Guajira, what he sees is a row of mills. What … and how. “There have been no analysis of the risks and studies of impacts on human rights with the participation of the communities. Nor are they seen resolution and mitigation of adverse impacts. And, judging by the complaints that arrive from the Wayuu communities and organizations, the international standards of rights of indigenous peoples ratified in Colombia are not being respected,” laments Berraondo. “Many communities do not oppose the development of projects if their rights are respected.” The debate, served. The issue is complex because other relevant factors are added to the tensions in the community, such as Energy plans from the country or the contributions of companies to the territory. Despite the noise of turbines or how they affect their traditions, Iguarán admits that in certain aspects its people have also been favored with the arrival of the wind farm Guajira i. The company behind the project has financed better infrastructure for water channeling or traffic and pays several communities a quota that depends on the income generated by electricity and the sale of carbon credits. Enough? “Companies are not respecting the right to participation for the benefit of communities and, on the other hand, offer them social investment plans with trap, since they can only execute such plans with the same companies that propose them,” Berraondo trench. A problem with consequences. Beyond the debate generated in Colombia or its media reach inside and outside the country, the situation in La Guajira is relevant because It is affecting to the sector and complicates the plans of the companies. TO late 2024 EDP ​​Renewables, in charge of the Alpha and Beta parks in La Guajira, decided to leave Colombia. The reason: delays and complications in which several factors influenced, such as COVID, but also the increase in indigenous communities involved in the prior consultation phase. In 2023 And after the effect of “Constant” Protests in the … Read more

New York Bitcoin miners are buying old power plants. New Yorkers are not happy

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Minar Bitcoins can be a very profitable business, but the growing difficulty of adding a new block and the rules of the economy of scale make, in the end, they are only earning money the mining farms that have access to huge amounts of energy at a low price. What are mining farms. They are large data centers full of ASICs, computers specialized in solving cryptographic problems. His work is to find a hash (the output of a mathematical function called SHA-256) to appear a valid block. How to buy bitcoins safely and without risk This process orders and propagates the safe transactions of the Bitcoin block chain, which has a juicy reward: every time a miner manages to add a block to the chain (once every approximately 10 minutes), receives 3,125 new bitcoins, the equivalent of 101,606 dollars. But not everything is benefit. In fact, Minar Bitcoin has a very high energy cost. This is where the price of electricity comes into play. And the north of the state of New York is especially attractive thanks to its abundant hydroelectric energy. But hydroelectric plants are not exactly the main objective of mining farms. Bitcoin gas and mining plants. In New York, the energy appetite of Bitcoin’s miners has reached a dystopian look with companies that acquire old or little used electric power plants, mainly of natural gas, to feed their operations 24/7. The old Greenidge generation coal plant, located next to Lake Senecato the north of the state, it became a combined cycle center in 2017, operating only when the energy demand was high. In 2020, the company installed a Bitcoin mining farm next to the plant. Greenidge Generation opened the ban. In 2018, the combined cycle plant supplied 203,918 MWh to the electricity network. In 2020, with mining as its main business, it began to burn much more gas, generating 215,588 MWh for the network and additional MWH for mine Bitcoin. Its emissions have multiplied by six since the Bitcoin mine is, according to a report of Inside Climate News. But in addition, he sealed a kind of symbiosis between gas plants and cryptocurrency mining. Greenidge became a proof of concept to resurrect another 49 similar plants in the state of New York. In a legal limbo. New York is not precisely a permissive state in Environment Policy. The Environmental Conservation Department denied the renewal of Greenidge permits in 2022 for violating the climate law of the State, which requires strong emission reductions. However, Greenidge continues to operate thanks to his appeals. The state law allows you to work as long as the administrative process lasts. New Yorkers are not happy. Another controversial case is that of Digi Power X. The Canadian company bought Fortistar the Combined Cycle of North Tonawanda, near the Niagara cataracts, to feed its own Bitcoins farm. The neighbors began to complain about a “persistent buzz” from the huge fans that refrigerate the data center. They ended up demanding the company, which triggered a two -year moratorium and formal studies on the noise and water consumption of the installation, estimated at 1.9 million liters to cool the servers. It is not drinking water, but exerts pressure on local wastewater infrastructure. In November 2024, the New York Supreme Court ordered the Public Services Commission to reassess the sale of Fortistar for a possible violation of the state climate law. However, as with Greenidge, the plant can continue to operate while the process lasts. The battle continues. With Trump things have changed at the federal level. In favor of miners. The new administration has raised restrictions on the use of fossil fuels and has promoted a new more lax regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. Meanwhile, despite legal battles, Greenidge and North Tonawanda mines continue to operate, along with their associated electric power plants. According to the United States Energy Information Agency, cryptocurrency mining represents up to 2.3% of the country’s total electricity consumption. In Xataka | Bitcoin is not to blame for a glacier lake to have become a “hot jacuzzi.” Still

Everyone has reasons to be half happy and half concerned with the new Pope

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At 18:08 of May 8, 2025, in the fourth round of voting on the second day of the conclave, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected Pope. It is not exclusive, or any mystery. These days we have lived what is possibly the most broadcast conclave in the history of humanity and, at this point of the week, almost everyone knows everything that needs to be known about the new Vicar of Rome. In fact, everyone knows too much about Leo XIV. A series of extraordinarily well measured gestures. Today, Italian newspapers comment that Prevost He took many votes already in the first vote of the conclave. It is not something we can know for sure, but that is the explanation that his speech from the balcony was so long. He had time to think about words, gestures and emphasis. Also in the symbols. Leon XIV went out to the Plaza de San Pedro dressed in the traditional habits of the Supreme Pontiff. Something that Francisco did not do. And, in fact, he has chosen a very rich name symbolically. Everyone is talking about Leon XIII (“father” of the rich social doctrine of the Church, but also of Syllabus, the great refutation of the ‘main errors’ of the modern world); But you could talk about Leon i (whose papacy, According to Benedict XVI“It was undoubtedly one of the most important in the history of the Church”) or even Fray Leonone of the closest collaborators of San Francisco de Asís. And that has been noticed … “The decisions of Pope Leo XIV of adopting a traditional name and appearing with the traditional papal outfit – as Benedict XVI did and not Francisco – are small but encouraging signs of a man who subordinates to the papal trade and understands the importance of continuity with the past.” Those words are from Edward Fester One of the best known conservative theologians today. A few minutes later, I even praised his temperament. Burke either SarahFrancisco’s staunch enemies have also been hopeful. On the opposite side, Jesuit James Martín (one of the church members closest to the LGTB opening) He said he knew that “Pope Leo XIV is a kind, open, humble, modest, determined, worker, reliable and feet on the ground. A brilliant choice.” How is it possible? Because, even if it may not seem, the reading that the media are making of why Leon XVI has been chosen ignores the dynamics and political of the Church. The constant temptation to interpret what happens in the world according to the narrow framework of socio -political references in which we move, makes the debate about the conclave seen as primary to Pope: but without trying to understand what is happening in an international organization with thousands of problems and very complicated solutions. Things like flying old Premost tweets against Trump’s immigration policytake advantage to ask that there are women in the conclave or the widespread regrets because lTo Church doctrine about abortion is “outdated”They show that these last days have been nothing more than a huge projection exercise. In illo one unum. His pontificate’s motto is not a coincidence. In addition to his 12 years as a prior of the Augustinians (a huge order with global implementation), Prevost was known, above all, by The diplomatic feat that led to closing the agreement of the last synod of the bishops in which the most reformist groups and the most traditionalists were about to declare war. As the motto you have chosen suggest: it seems that its mission will be in tenders and heal a Catholic Church that He has been “harassed by the wolves for many years”. However, hope has a dark back. In the same way that all ecclesiastical groups have reasons to be hopeful, everyone has reasons to walk. No one knows for sure what will do or stop doing Leon XVI. As in the case of Francisco or Juan Pablo II, the choice of someone relatively unknown in Rome opens the set of play in a radical and unexpected way. And that, in an organization of the size and power of the Catholic Church that is a lot. Image | Infoweather1 | Wikimedia In Xataka | In 1958 the Church applied a small change in the funeral of Pius XII. Ended the deceased exploiting (literally)

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