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While the world desperately seeks rare earth, China has an overwhelming advantage: it’s called Wem

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It seems clear that it has begun A race On the planet: the search for Rare earths and the essential critical minerals for many of the sectors that mark the geopolitical agenda. The problem for 99.9% of nations is the same: when they seem to have reached a deposit there are already A Chinese flag. What is not usually explained so much is how Beijing does. The miliar origin. Deep in the mountains of center of China extends A monumental installation that transforms both the landscape and the global competition for strategic resources. It is a gigantic antenna of 500 kilowatts, with lines that are deployed over 80 and 120 kilometers, originally conceived to maintain communication with underwater underwater. This electromagnetic colossus, whose extension exceeds in five times the New York surfacehas been converted into a decisive instrument for the exploration of critical minerals, projecting signals capable of penetrating kilometers in the earth’s crust and revealing deposits that previously remained out of human reach. What began as a military project has become a Scientific and Technological Weapon which gives Beijing a remarkable advantage in the race for the resources that will define the future of energy and industry. Electromagnetic exploration. A study of the China Geological Survey (CGS), published in the Geophysical & Geochemical Exploration magazine, has detailed how the country has managed to monopolize Electromagnetic systems of ultra-high power. All platforms that exceed 100 kW are in Chinese territory, while the most powerful tool in the United States barely reaches 30 kW. The difference is not trivial: this technological leap has allowed Chinese geologists to discover in recent years sites of historical magnitude, such as the Greater gold deposit of the world, reserves Lithium ultra-extends and uranium veins in depths Never achieved. The research led by Chen Hui and his team affirms That these innovations consolidate China’s world position in electromagnetic exploration theory and technology, placing it far ahead of any western competitor. The challenge. As the superficial deposits of copper, lithium, cobalt and rare earths are exhausted, the exploration has moved to what geologists call The “Second Mineral Space”: An underground strip that extends between 500 and 2,000 meters deep. In this environment, the signs issued by mineral bodies are extremely weak and are usually buried under the cultural noise generated by electricity lines, urban infrastructure and extractive operations. The Chinese response has been to redefine the scale of prospecting: multiply the transmission power by above 100 kWflooding the subsoil with signs capable of crossing interference and reaching depths of up to 3,000 meters with unprecedented clarity. Advances in the subsoil cartography. The jump is not limited to power. While conventional techniques relied on two -dimensional models not suitable for complex structures, Chinese systems use Sensors distributed networks and multidirectional field sources that allow a real three -dimensional image of the subsoil. In the Jiama copper mine, in the Tibet, a controlled audio-magnetothelúrica tensorial study (CSAMT) reached unpublished resolutions at more than 3,000 meters, subsequently confirmed with drilling nuclei. These results They far exceeded to the Magnetotheluric of Natural Source, usually ineffective in saturated noise environments. The methods. One of the most prominent advances is the Electromagnetic method wide field, developed by Professor He Jishan, which allows you to obtain reliable data even in the so -called “nearby field zone”, where the records were not very useful. At the same time, the time-frequency electromagnetic systems are expanding the available information by measuring not only the resistance of the materials, but also its polarization and permeabilityessential parameters to distinguish between different types of deposits. The Wem project. And so we reach the clearest symbol of this ambition: The Wem project (Wireless Electromagnetic Method), whose colossal structure crosses China’s heart with two antenna lines arranged almost at right angles. This system, which began as a naval communication tool, has become the First electromagnetic transmitter of continental scale used in the prospecting of resources. In a national test carried out in 2023its signs were detected from Tibet to Interior Mongolia and Guangdong, more than 2,000 kilometers away. In the area of ​​Xiong’an there were magnetic fields up to seven times higher than the natural background noise, an unequivocal demonstration of the system’s capacity to impose itself on the most complex interference. Strategic advantage. In other words, with these Beijing technologies It is placed at the head of the struggle for the essential mineral resources for the energy transition and the green technologies: lithium for batteries, cobalt for high resistance alloys and rare earths essential in modern electronics. In contrast, most Western countries lack comparable systems and, except Russia, almost none use ultra-high power instruments in terrestrial prospecting. Even the most powerful teams manufactured in the West have been designed at China, which underlines the existing technological dependence. A new geopolitical board. China’s ability to identify deep deposits quickly Not only is it a scientific advantage, but also strategic. Control over technology and data places Beijing in a position to mark the rhythm of the discovery of resources in the coming decades. If you want, in a context where the energy transition redefines the global value chains, who controls access to lithium, cobalt and rare earth will control much of the industrial future. With the deployment of Giant antennas and electromagnetic systems Of unpublished power, China is making it clear that it does not intend to participate in the race: its goal is to win it. Image | Ilo Asia-Pacific, Herry Lawford, Terence Wright In Xataka | The great covered in the War of Critical Minerals is Tungsten. The US needs it and 83% have it China In Xataka | In 1978 Chinese engineers visited two key US companies. On his return an empire began: the rare earths

Japan expired its nuclear power plants after Fukushima. He has just reversed with a overwhelming law

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14 years after Fukushima disasterJapan has pressed the reset button in its nuclear policy with a new law that It has just come into force and will allow the nuclear reactors to operate beyond 60 years. Energy Pendulazo. Behind him 2011 disasterJapan imposed a strict limit to the useful life of nuclear power plants: they could operate for 40 years, with a possible extent to 60 years if they exceeded rigorous security tests. Now, that barrier has vanished as a solution to the energy challenges facing the country. Stop the clock. The law introduces an ingenious formula To extend the useful life of Japanese nuclear centrals: the periods in which a reactor has been inactive due to “unpredictable circumstances” will now not count in their operating age. This includes stops for security reviews or judicial suspensions, provided they are not due to a negligence of the operator. The clearest example is that of reactor 1 of the Central de Takahama. Inaugurated in 1974, he is the oldest in the country. After Fukushima, He was standing for about 12 years. With the new law, that time “does not count”, which would allow it, in theory, to continue working until 2047, reaching a useful life of 72 years. Of course, the new law is accompanied by a strengthening of supervision. The reasons for change. The 180 degree turn in Japanese nuclear policy responds to a perfect geopolitical storm. The Russian invasion of Ukraine shook world energy markets, evidencing the dangerous Japan dependence on imported fossil fuels. On the other hand, the government provides for a massive increase in electrical demand promoted by artificial intelligence and the manufacture of semiconductors, two strategic sectors for the future of the country. As a fourth world economy and fifth CO2 issuer, Japan has the ambitious objective of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Nuclear energy, free of direct emissions, is now an indispensable tool to achieve it. The new Japanese energy mix. The road map is clear: Japan aspires to Renewables are the main source of energy By 2040, but nuclear energy will play a fundamental role. For that same date, the country expects atomic energy to represent about 20% of the country’s energy supply, a gigantic leap from 5.6% of 2022. Image | Hirorinmasa (CC by-SA 3.0) In Xataka | The largest nuclear power plant in the planet is a beast with seven reactors. Is ready to return after Fukushima

The most “walkable” cities in the world, gathered on a map with an overwhelming winner: Europe

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Little by little, Europe has been expelling the car. It’s something that goes beyond low emissions areas: It’s almost cultural. The cities of the continent were designed tailored to the pedestrians in which the cobbled streets and the squares were usual and, although they have given way to the roads, that pedestrianization is coming back. And show that pedestrian power is this map elaborated by Visual Capitalist in which we see the 20 most passable cities in the world on foot. Spoiler: The 20 are European. The map. The data to prepare the map have been extracted from the study ‘A universal frame for inclusive cities of 15 minutes‘and the graph of The Economist And it allows us to visualize the average time that someone living in a city of 500,000 inhabitants or more has to walk to reach some basic service. These services or comforts include places such as schools, restaurants, stores or hospitals and, although cities must be scored to choose an order, the truth is that the average time is very, very similar among them. Average time. Thus, of the 20 most pedestrian or more passable cities on foot in the world, the first would be Milan (with an ideal center to walk, everything is said) and the last one would be Oslo. Of course, as we can see in the table that we leave below, the difference between them is not a nonsense: Milan 6 minutes and 24 seconds Copenhagen 6 minutes and 36 seconds Turin 7 minutes and 6 seconds Dublin 7 minutes and 24 seconds Lyon 7 minutes and 24 seconds Munich 7 minutes and 30 seconds Paris 8 minutes Marseilles 8 minutes and 6 seconds Genoa 8 minutes and 6 seconds Edinburgh 8 minutes and 12 seconds Berlin 8 minutes and 12 seconds Vienna 8 minutes and 18 seconds St. Petersburg 8 minutes and 18 seconds Bilbao 8 minutes and 24 seconds Bordeaux 8 minutes and 30 seconds MINSK 8 minutes and 36 seconds Stuttgart 9 minutes and 6 seconds Lille 9 minutes and 6 seconds Barcelona 9 minutes and 12 seconds Oslo 9 minutes and 30 seconds Characteristics. The European advantage over other countries and the characteristics that make cities more friendly to pedestrians are diverse. On the one hand, these big cities usually have historical centers that have been pedestrianizing or that were already. There are many examples, but cities like Amsterdam or Paris, among many others, They have gained ground to the car In recent years with more pedestrian areas of both the center and the school streets. Another important factor is that many of them were founded before the arrival of the car, so they were designed to reach everywhere. That is why there is a greater proximity to essential services and there is a green infrastructure such as squares, gardens and parks that are also inciting, in addition, to walk. On the other hand, public transport is also very developed, reducing the dependence of the private car. Advantages. There are many, but we can encompass them in one: health. Walking more and taking less the car implies that air quality improves because there is less pollution. Noise is also reduced, although these two factors are something that the electric car has potential to change. Having a more active lifestyle, it has positive consequences on health and the cardiovascular system and is something that promotes community life. Projects. All this has led to the fact that, as we say, Europe is friendly with the pedestrian, there are cities that are rethinking their urban model. In Spain, there are cities like Logroño that They have gained space to the car. Pontevedra is Another curious casewith 80,000 vehicles in the center in the late 90s only 7,000 in 2018. The idea is to have “15 minutes cities”And, although in Spain we already live in them, there are projects for large cities to be even more friendly. An example is the Supermanzanas of Barcelonahe XPANDE project of Burgos to convert 23,000 square meters into pedestrian areas, the regeneration of Bilbao, Valencia either Sevilleamong other large and small throughout the territory. Out of Europe? And, in fact, it is something that has been encouraged at European level. He WALKING PANEUROPE PLANor European Walking Plan, was an initiative to promote that pedestrian mobility throughout Europe, driven by common policies and focused on improving health. Outside Europe, then … there is everything. To find the first most passable city on the list, you would have to go down to 28th place, where Kyoto is. And, within the top 50, there are other cities that are not European such as Taipei, Katmandú, Taichung or Tokyo, all in the lowest part of the list. USA, Cochista region. On the other side of the end is North America. The United States and Canada are countries that have developed cities in a completely opposite way to European: prioritizing the use of the private car. The first on the list is Vancouver in 53 position and it is something that will be difficult to change despite the projects individuals of each city. The reason is that it is something cultural due to the urban design of its large cities, where suburban areas are They expanded big before and after Second World War and where the highways They won the ground to the neighborhoods very quickly, destroying communities and that model of “cities of 15 minutes”. Cities like Houston or Los Angeles They could not sustain themselves without the car, in fact. In the end, it is curious as, at least in Europe, the cities of the future seem to look at the past to recover a healthier and closest urban model. In Xataka | High speed lanes for pedestrians, the solution for all those who hate the slow sidewalks

An overwhelming cast with second season already announced, and already in streaming

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Eye to this cast: Michael Fassbender, Richard Gere and Jeffrey Wright, accompanied by secondary schools such as Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston and John Magaro. A luxury squad for one of the most anticipated thrillers of this 2025 start: ‘The agency‘, who has aroused so much expectation that his second season has already been announced and that you can see now In Skyshowtime and In Movistar Plus+. In it we will meet An undercover agent of the CIA who receives the order to abandon his normal life to return to work in London. But when he falls in love, he is willing to sacrifice his work and his own identity to safeguard his private life, which will precipitate an international intrigue where they are involved, among others, a veteran agent of the organization. Behind ‘The Agency’ are the brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, screenwriters of ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’. Signing the first two episodes is Joe Wright (‘The darkest moment’), which makes it very clear that we are facing a high -budget product, which is noticed in its action sequences (although the series has a rhythm that is cooked over low heat, and where intrigues abound in offices than the thrilling persecutions) and cinematographic finishing. At the moment, Skyshowtime (which presumes this series, rightly, as one of the most outstanding elements among its premieres this month) It has only released the first two episodes of ‘The Agency’. The issuance of the same will last to the ten chapters, so we will have time to get the meticulous rhythm and the oppressive atmosphere of this new spy epic. Header | Skyshowtime In Xataka | This is how US spies cheated Russia in the 80s and sold savage chips to the Soviets

‘The island of temptations’ overwhelming in February

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Finally, it has neither ‘Big Brother’ nor ‘First Dates’ nor, of course, ‘Next Level Chef’ the Mediaset bet that has planted that roller of audiences that are ‘El Hormiguero’ and ‘La Revuelta’. He has been an old acquaintance of the house (eighth year already) in the genre that I rent the most of Telecinco (the realitiesSubsection beaches and sand), and with the unexpected help of this year’s great television viral surprise: Montoya. The frightened of Montoya. Montoya’s attempt to enter the house where his girlfriend was with one of the seducers has gone around the world for his many comic elements: the overflowing passion of the contestant, the screams of Sandra Barneda asking him to return, the (possible) good Physical form of the camera that had to follow him … all that made a more than possible script scene but, fiction or not, it was exciting, which has generated Thousands of memes in everyone. We are left with Don Pico Patobut yesterday Whoopi Goldberg It was a trend in Spain Because in his morning debate program he had spoken with his Dyslate of Montoya. Good audiences. Before the final explosion of Montoya we talked that the program had not started with audiences especially high. Last week, when Montoya began to be a family name, the season had an average audience close to 16% of Share, similar to last year. But from there, he has not stopped climbing. Strategies in search of audience. The tactic that Mediaset has carried out is to chop its Monday program, first issuing an “express” edition that retains interest and competes with ‘El Hormiguero’ and ‘La Revuelta’. This past Monday was issued between 22.06 and 23.10 and reached 14.9% screen share, an absolutely unheard of Telecinco (‘Big Brother’, when it was issued in that section of coincidence, it stays at 6%) . ‘El Hormiguero’ got 14% of Share and ‘La Revuelta’ 15%, with which Montoya was only a tenth below Broncano. From that point of the night the audience of the reality He shot, reaching 21.4% and defeating their competitors: the talent culinary ‘bake off’ and the Turkish soap opera ‘Renacer’. 9 out of 10. Even before the global domination of the Montoya Meme, ‘The island of temptations’ already had a brand to show off: 9 of the 10 most viewed emissions in January belong to them. It is a space that usually dominate the afternoon snakes of La1, but Montoy Prime Timebut certainly explains the interest that this new edition has aroused. The audiences, child. Since ‘the revolt’ they have always made references to the war of audiences with ‘El Hormiguero’, not taking them too seriously (especially, because frivolizing about their value is also a form of attack to those who do value them), and This Tuesday was Lalachus the one that referred to the entrance of the new contender. Broncano finished the issue with a reference to one of the most ridiculously viral aspects of suffering from Montoya: “The battle of the decade, interrupted by a pussy in the neck.” Header | Mediaset In Xataka | Broncano, Giró and Buenafuente: the plan of the new director of TVE to put the war of audiences up

The electric car is an overwhelming success in China. So much so that it makes no sense to call it like this

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The adoption of electric car in China It is far from what we have been watching in Europe for some time. Specifically, with a market share of 20% compared to just 6% in the EU, despite the efforts of manufacturers to electrify their fleets. This It has been growing firing for yearsthanks to direct subsidy policies, tax exemptions and, above all, a colossal investment in infrastructure. The world’s largest network for electric car recharge is there, with more than 8 million load points Ay Byd as a sales leader. The rhythm is being so vertiginous that, for some, the term “electric car” is beginning to become obsolete. The next step is the intelligent electric car. Catl word. Catl is the largest battery manufacturer globally, and one of the main weight names in the world of electric car. It provides batteries for many of the manufacturers, and at the annual meeting of the Davos Economic Forum put on the table A new term: ‘EIV’. Currently, we refer to electric vehicles such as EV (Electric Vehicle) but Pan Jian, Co -president of CALT, states that the term EIV begins to gain strength. The message is clear: the electric car is ceasing to be, simply, an electric car. Intelligence. Beyond marketing strategies, the reality is that the electric car is rotating much more than a car moved by electricity. Manufacturers like byd are planned to invest 13.6 billion dollars in IA development For electric cars. Others, such as Xiaomi, focus efforts on offering driver and Aito assistance systems, a company participated by Huawei, have given several lessons to European manufacturers about The autonomous parking. China leads the integration of intelligent technologies into electric vehicles, and the focus on software (in front of the chaos of some European manufacturers), It is a good proof of this. Upward forecasts. By 2025, It is expected that China sells a total of 12 million electric. To know if it is much or little, you can use the fact that in Europe less than one million were enrolled in Europe. Despite The obstacles that Europe wants to put to China In its price war, the country is enough and left over its local brands both in its land and outside it. Image | Byd In Xataka | NEW BYD ATTO 2: already available in Spain the bet of ByD in the electric car segment of 25,000 euros (or less)

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