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China’s absolute dominance over rare earths is the result of a strategy that no one else has. Not even the US

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The Rare earth They have a leading role in the commercial, technological and geostrategic war that the US and China support. These chemical elements are relatively scarce, and, in addition, they are not usually found purely in nature, but what makes them so special are Its physicochemical properties. In fact, thanks to them they have established themselves as A very valuable resource In numerous industries, especially in electronics and renewable energies. During the last year and a half the Chinese government has used its control of these chemical elements to defend their strategic interests In full confrontation with the US, Europe and its allies. The interesting thing is that it can do it because it produces approximately 70% of rare earths They are distributed in the world market, and, what is even more important, controls 90% of the processing industry to which it is necessary to submit rare earths so that they can be used. China refines 99% of the weighing land of the planet At the current US tension situation, Europe and its allies need to bet on their independence and consolidate their own supply chain. They are in it, but they don’t have it easy. The old continent in particular has been proposed to self -abuse At least 10% of rare earths He needs for 2030 thanks to the exploitation of the new deposits, such as the one he found in January 2023 the LKAB mining company near the city of Kiruna, in northern Sweden. China’s starting point is very favorable. As we have just seen, with a 70% production of the global market and a control of 90% of the rare earth processing industry this Asian country has this absolutely controlled market. However, we have not yet repaired in a figure more that is also very important: China refine no less than 99% of the heavy lands of the planet. These chemical elements are a subgroup of rare earth characterized by its greater density and lower ionic radius. Heavy rare earths are a subgroup of rare earths characterized by its greater density and lower ionic radius In addition, heavy rare earths are less abundant in the earth’s crust than the light ones. To this subgroup belongs as elusive minerals and with names as exotic as gadolinio, the terbio, the display, the holm, the erbium or the tulle, among others. How can we intuit, China does not control 99% of the processing of this kind of rare earth by chance. This absolute leadership is the result of a strategy in which teaching institutions are having an unquestionably protagonist role. And, according to the newspaper The New York Timesat the moment China has 39 university programs of chemistry specialized in rare earths. Presumably in these training programs students acquire the necessary knowledge to develop their professional career in the chemical industry specialized in rare earth processing. There is no doubt that this is one of the great strengths of the country led by Xi Jinping in this area, especially if we keep in mind that US universities currently do not offer a single specialized program in rare earths. The article published by The New York Times does not collect it, but in all likelihood European countries that have a greater dependence on rare earths, such as Germany or France, as well as Japan or South Korea are in the same situation as the US. These countries will cost a lot of time to acquire the favorable inertia that China has objectively, so it is reasonable to anticipate that in the short and medium term the rare earth processing industry will continue to be led by strong by the country headed by Xi Jinping. This Jens Eskelund statementthe president of the Chamber of Commerce of the European Union in China, clearly reflects what the US and Europe face: “Some approvals are coming (the result of negotiation with China), but they are far from being enough to Avoid imminent stops in production. We still face A great interruption in supply chains“ Image | Volker Braun More information | The New York Times In Xataka | We already know what is the best natural factory of the precious rare earths: a cosmic kilonova

Japan has been seeing how its birth collapse little by little. Now faces the result: the “problem 2025”

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Japan has a great great Population challenge ahead, a demographic watchmaking pump fed by a birth rate that He has won to place in historical minimumsincreased life expectancy and a weight increasing of the elderly population. That is no novelty. However, however, Japanese economists and politicians look with increasing concern A key datethe turning point from which this aging will begin to take its toll to the country. And it has already arrived. The “problem 2025”. Although there is still much 2025 ahead and it is soon to know if Japanese birth will continue The descending curve of The last decadeDemographers have long suspected that this will not be an easy year. And the reason does not reside so much in fertility and mortality rates as in what it represents. 2025 will mark the point where the Japanese born during the Baby Boom of the late 40 (1947-1949) will exceed 75 years. And that means a real challenge for several reasons. In fact, in the country they have been talking about “Problem 2025”. More than a symbol. Japan It is not the only nation that deal with the winds of demographic winter, although there they blow with more force than usual and the problem is faced from a particular perspective. From the outset, the Japanese do not perceive the elderly as most countries. For them, the usual thing is that people who have turned 65 “Genki” categorythat of healthy and active people. As I remembered The Economist A few months agomore than 50% of people between 65 and 69 years and more than a third of those of 70 to 74 are still working. Moreover, in the population group between 65 and 74, only 3% of the Japanese require nursing care. His life is so active that the country’s gerontological association has even proposed to include that cohort in a new category, that of the “pre-estatants.” The thing changes after 75. Crusade that barrier only work 12% of the Japanese and the percentages of the population that require care. They are the “advanced elders”, the horizon that the millions of Japanese are now born during the Baby Boom of the late 40s. And with them the whole of Japanese society does. Why is it a problem? Because, like They have not been warning for some time Experts, that demographic turn will submit the pension system and medical care in Japan to greater pressure. And it will also do it in an aged country, accustomed to seeing how every year it is achieved A new historical minimum of birth rate and in which the population of working age It has been descending evident since the beginning of the century. The result is what experts such as Takado Komine, of the Institute for International Policy Studies (IEPI), has called The “problem 2025”, a crisis with multiple edges and derivatives that affect society and economy. “A sudden increase”. In A recent analysis On the phenomenon, Europa Press cites some of the fronts on which the “problem 2025” will let yourself feel. The first, he remembers citing an IPEI report, will probably be geriatric care services. The organism Consider which is “almost certain” that as of this year doctors and nurses will deal with “a sudden increase” of people who need care, which will result in “a significantly greater burden for workforce.” And what will be the result? A foreseeable personnel and greater pressure deficit on social coverage systems. In 2018, the government has already made accounts and concluded that between 2025 and 2040 the general social security costs, including pensions, will shoot almost 60%. Everything while The weight of the population Over 65 years old does not stop increasing in the country. The report also indicates the challenge that will be for large urban areas, where a greater volume of elderly people is concentrated. The Government has already launched to solve the problem, but the challenge is considerable and is accompanied by threats, such as giving rise to an inequality crisis among older people. How serious is the problem? It arrives with review some figures to understand it. Last year they were born in Japan 721,000 babiesthe lowest data since the country collects statistics. Only in 1949 (in full baby boom) it is estimated that they were born 2.69 million babiesthe same ones that will now cross the 75 -year border. According to Precise The Economistthe population that exceeds that age is expected to rub the 22 million. A decade ago they were just 17. Image | Woody Yan (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | The Japanese demography debacle, illustrated in a graphic that speaks for itself

Someone wondered what would happen if we allowed all athletes to do. The result is already here: improved games

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“Imagine that a 60 -year -old beat the Usain Bolt world record.” Sounds crazy, but that is the phrase that left last year during An interview with The Guardian Aron d´souza, the founder, president and visible face of Enhanced. His words matter because D´Souza is organizing, with the support of some outstanding investors, the Improved games (Enhancend Games), a sports competition that will open the door for your athletes to dop and consume drugs prohibited by sports federations. The objective is the one that D´Souza commented: to knock down barriers and leave behind the brands of Usain Bolt or other apparently unbeatable plusmarks on the tracks. The idea, of course, has generated a huge stir and has already led to international experts and agencies to alert of its dangers. Las Vegas, May 2026. That is the city and the date on which improved games want to make their great start. In An act held this week at Resort World Las Vegas, D´Souza and his team announced that the first competition open to the consumption of drugs vetoed by the sports federations will be held next year, between May 21 and 26in “The city of sin.” More specifically, in a complex built for tests within the Resorts world las vegas With clues and pool. A for world records. There the athletes who participate in the tournament will compete in three disciplines: swimming, athletics and lostfilia, with different categories in each. For that purpose, the organizers will prepare a 50 -meter pool with four lanes, a six -lane speed track, a special scenario for weightlifting and something so (or even more important): A succulent list of metallic awards. In addition to the premiums for participating, Enhanced will offer a reward of $ 500,000 per proof, of which 250,000 will go to the pocket of the first classified. If any of the athletes hit a world record in the “definitive tests” (100 meters smooth and 50 m free) will also pocket a gratification of one million dollars. The objective is evident: spray plusmarks. For now and to open appetite, the organizers They assure that one of its swimmers has already managed to overcome a 2009 record. The keyword: doping. What defines improved games is not who, where and when they organize, but how they raise the tests. Its great hallmark is that they open the door to the use of drugs or treatments vetoed in official competitions. “Unlike traditional sports agencies, Enhanced does not prohibit substances that improve performance, but also bring them to light, with total transparency, safety and medical supervision,” Underline. Throughout the last months the organizers They have stressed that treatments will not be administered “in any way” and athletes will have to pass “thorough medical recognitions.” In The same report of The Guardian in which D´Souza talked about breaking Bolt’s records even states that organizers will not accept illegal substances and their drugs must have been legally prescribed. Of course, compliance with the standards seems to depend on the collaboration of athletes. “Sport stagnated”. Although the appointment has generated A considerable controversythe organizers have loaded it as an epic and insist that their goal is to open horizons. “We live in a world transformed by science, from vaccines to AI. But sport has stagnated. Until today. We are not updating the regulation, we are rewriting it,” claims D´Souza. Enhanced’s website includes other ideas Roundsuch as “superhumanity” or “future of sport.” “We are creating a new category of excellence, a world where drugs to improve performance are used safely, open and supervised.” “In 1896 Baron Pierre de Coubertin reinvented the old Olympic Games for his time, an era of nationalisms,” Reflect. “Now we are reinventing the Olympic Games again … to create a completely new formula, not sport, but of humanity.” Apart ideas, the truth is that the organization He has recognized who hopes to enter millions of dollars for the issuance rights and in The same statement in which he informs of the first improved games slides that plans to launch at the end of this summer a company dedicated to “improved performance products”. “Dangerous, not very ethical and harmful”. Not everyone shares the enthusiasm of D´Souza and his team. On the contrary. Since Enhanced revealed his plans and especially after the confirmation of his first “games”, there have been few voices that have risen to pronounce against the idea. This week the Sport Australia Athlete Advisory Group He warned that “the normalization” of drugs to improve performance “promotes doping as entertainment, putting athletes at risk, and devalues ​​the efforts of those who choose to compete clean.” For the organism, the concept of improved games is “dangerous, not very ethical and harmful.” And it is not the most resounding opinion about it. Travis Tygart, Executive Director of the US Anti -Doping Agency, He thinks that the initiative is “a dangerous clown show, not really sport” and the world anti -doping agency speaks of “dangerous and irresponsible project.” Others They pull irony And they have baptized the Enhanced Games of “steroid Olympics.” An appointment, several names. If the improved games have achieved so much impact is not only because of their challenging and controversial approach. To its visibility has helped (and much) that Enhanced has managed to embark in the initiative some prominent names of the world of finance and sport. Among the first figure Peter Thievel either Donald Trump Jr. Among the second, the Australian swimmer James Magnussentwice world champion of 100 m free. And to him others have joined such as the Ukrainian plusmarchist Andrii Govorov or the Bulgarian Josif Miladinov, European silver in 100 butterfly. One of the names that have sounded the most in recent days has been however that of Greek Olympic swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev, who According to Enhanced He has already managed to break the world record of 50 m free with a mark of 20.89 seconds, which would exceed the one achieved in 2009 by Cesar Cielo. The BBC points out that, … Read more

The appointment apps promised to be the end of the old marriage agencies. The result has been quite different

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The classics never die. Not at least if we talk about love and his things. Although Tinder, GrindrMeetic, Bumble and the rest of appointment apps (The list is long) They have made a considerable hole in the world of national romance, in Spain there are still people who continue to resort to those who for decades were the great allies of the single: marriage agencies. Its objective may not be to take couples before the altar, but a Fast search in Google to verify that there are still agencies operating, especially in the big cities. And from the sector they assure that they are not doing badly. “We are on the rise”, celebrate. The big question is … How have you managed to survive appointment apps? Don’t say Tinder, di agency. Ligar today is not the same as linking in the 80s the beginning of the 2000. Although the essence is always the same, each time has its own forms and codes. The history of Ligteo However, he also has his milestones and probably one of the most relevant was marked by the launch of Tinder In 2012. It was not the first platform to look for a partner (there were already match.com or okcupid), but it did clearly influenced the sector and somehow managed to knock down some taboos and stigmas. In 2013 it was already one of the hundred apps more downloaded And in 2018, after experiencing a 58% growth in a matter of a five years, it exceeded the four million of paid users worldwide. Its expansion has experienced ups and downs (Like His social footprint), but A recent study GFK DAM shows that he continues to lead the ranking of the platforms to flirt in Spain, with an average of 1.5 million monthly users. In second and third are Badoo and Grindr, with 776,000 and 635,600 users. And the marriage agencies? That revolution was not only felt in the networks or Apps downloads. The emergence of tools such as Tinder also affected a business model that had been implanted in the country and had experienced its golden era after the Divorce Law of 1981: Marriage agencies. Suddenly those who wanted to flirt but did not have time or encouragement to go to a disco could do it from their mobile, without having to resort (and pay) to the services of a professional celestine. “We go from being the only way of searching for a couple to live a strong competition,” He recognized in 2023 to the newspaper ABC Alicia López, psychologist at the Apesian agency. The agencies had to undertake their particular journey through the desert, face a crisis in their business model. And they had no choice but to “reinvent themselves”, like Remember López. Businesses organized workshops, looked for new income paths, influenced the strengths of their service … The idea was to relocate, find their coordinates after seeing how apps the apps “moved”. And changed the wave. The Adagio says that every crisis is at the same time an opportunity. And in the world of pairing professionals seems to have been fulfilled. Appointment apps and websites continue to work in Spain with millions of monthly users (4.7, According to GFK DAM), but the agencies claim to have found their hole and even benefit from the new scenario. “A few years ago that wave has returned to us and many people are tired from the digital world and their disappointments and lies,” López comments. “Of course, there is something that we thank these apps and that is that people have encouraged to ask for help to find a partner. Before it was a bit taboo, such as going to the psychologist,” he adds. It is not the only one that points in that direction. At the beginning of the year Carmen del Valle, director of Harmony, acknowledged in An interview With the being that at first the agencies like yours were “displaced” by apps, but over time the result was the opposite. “Now many people tired and frustrated.” And if there were doubts, he insists: “We are on the rise.” The importance of the approach. The key is what the agencies contribute. Or rather, in their ability to differentiate from the apps that have arisen in recent years. In fact of the valley insists In what a good part of the single ones who knock on their door demand something very specific: “A personalized and direct treatment.” These two values ​​are part of a cocktail to which agencies have added others, such as exclusivity, anonymity or even efficiency. “The agencies have existed a lifetime. Now, with apps, people look for safer and reliable options,” Confirm López to León News. Its logic is simple. The agencies are sold as intermediaries, a professional ally capable of providing a more personalized and direct service than that of apps. Those responsible are offered to refine the search, connect potential couples with shared affinities and desires and speak of high success percentages, often 80% are around. All without the need for public exposure, having to upload personal photos an app and go through the ritual of the Match. Not suitable for all pockets. For López Agencies offer “an alternative for people who want to avoid the dangers of staying with someone unknown in appointment apps.” As intermediaries, they assume the responsibility that the people who match share some affinity, something they try to guarantee with face -to -face interviews. Same important is discretion. There are agencies that organize appointments without having Show even photos To the single ones who are going to meet. Other businesses presume of your ability in he Matchmaking and the application of methods not very different from those used in the human resources departments of the companies. That assistance (of course) is not cheap. Prices may vary from one agency to another, but if interviews are reviewed to their managers in recent years there are rates for 300, 600, 1,800, 2,000, 6,000 or even 12,000 … Read more

In the 60s Spain wanted to experiment with gamma radiation. The result was an “atomic forest” in Alcalá

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Before rowing us and getting into work I propose a game. One fast, simple and above all curious. Open Google Maps, activates the satellite vision (with that of the street the effect will not be the same), write “Alcalá Atomic Garden” And then let the web transfer you to a point located near Meco and the Northeast HighwayA-2. There, Google’s red claw. Approximate. What do you see? Exact. A Huge circumference green Symmetric. Perfect As if they had drawn it with an XXL size compass. If you dedicate a couple of seconds you will appreciate that it is formed by concentric circles, a succession Tree rings Almost and leafy enough to stand out in bird view and that someone planted in their day around a clear center. It is not a mistake. It is history. More specifically the footprint of “El Encín Gamma Radiation Field”an installation that in its day, back in the last decades of Franco, stood out on the country’s scientific map. His chronicle is fascinating. Almost as much as the large 15 -hectare wooded square left in Alcalá and that, In words From the anthropologist Ambrosio Sánchez de Ribera, it is “a singularity” at European level. New times, new science The 50s and 60s were times of change. For the world, which gradually entered into The cold war. And of course for Spain, where Franco seemed to enter a new phase marked by developmentalism and a certain cracking of its international isolation, with milestones such as The signing of the concordat with the Holy See In 1953, the Pacts of Madrid or the entrance to the UN, In 1955. The 50 were also time for something else: nuclear energy. With still the recent memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki And in full arms race with Moscow, the US wanted international opinion not to focus only on the threat of atomic war and also value its civil and scientific uses. Probably the best proof of that effort is speech “Peace atoms”pronounced in 1953 by Eisenhower before the UN. “Instead of focusing exclusively on the dangers of atomic war, Eisenhower praised the Civil nuclear applications In agriculture, medicine and energy generation. He proposed to create an ‘international atomic energy organism’ that promoted the peaceful use of nuclear energy ‘for the benefit of humanity’ “, Remember Elisabeth Röhrlichhistorian of the University of Vienna. The result soon materialized: just Four years laterIn 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA) was created. Spain, who had started his own (and shy) history with nuclear energy to late 40did not remain impermeable to those changes. In the 50 Patria Press (Node included) already talked about the US plants either United Kingdom and experiments with radioactive sources applied to medicine and agriculture. In 57 Madrid even hosted a European FAO summit on the subject. Thus, with that backdrop, around 1959, Spain decided to take another step and, with the key mediation of César Gómez Campoan engineer with experience in the USA, planned to create his own “Gamma Radiation Field”a focused specifically designed to perform “crop and seed irradiation experiments”. The chosen place: El Encín, a plot away from Alcalá where Gómez Campo himself had been conducting studies for Agronomic Research Institute. The project advanced relatively fast, as Ambrosio Sánchez de Ribera recalls in a broad (and very complete) essay About the Encín published in 2018 in Complutenses Annals. In 1961, what time was lifted would be an active scientific installation whose footprint still shows today from Google bird: a field of study of 440 square meters of diameter, an area of ​​15 hectares and 18,000 trees, although in 2018 there were only 5,000 left. A huge outdoor laboratory The Encín was a huge outdoor laboratory. One with a design as peculiar as its purpose. The field was circular and was formed by a series of concentric rings arranged around an axis. In the center there was a circle of 25 m radius with a removable hexagonal greenhouse. Inside it contained a lead sarcophagus that housed the source of radiation with which scientists operated, Cesio137 from used bars of American nuclear reactors. Around that central almond of 50 m in diameter, protected with a concrete wall and a stepped soil slope of several meters high to avoid the radiation output, the nearly 18,000 trees that completed the circumference of 15 hectares were distributed. Its purpose was to serve as extra screen against radiation. By way of auction, the center had a garden of large trees and several constructions where the staff had its offices and laboratories. Clarified what the Encín was the other great question: What did they do in it in the 60s? Basically experiment with radiation to find mutations that in last terms allow to achieve varieties of interesting vegetables, fruits or seeds for their characteristics. What is called induced mutagenesis. Gómez Campo himself explained In 1964, which centers such as El Encín were dedicated: “Essentially it consists of a gamma ray emitting source that is installed in an open field, so that the irradiation of growth or relatively bulky animals is possible.” Certain hours a day and for several months a year, at the Alcalá base the technicians opened the lead sarcophagus so that the gamma ray emitting source could act in the center of the field, the 50 m area of ​​diameter protected with a wall and slope in which plants, seeds, insects or some animals were exposed. “The dose received depended on the distance from Cesio137”, Sánchez de Ribera clarifies. When the years of irradiation ended the lead sarcophagus fell again, the caesium was locked and the researchers could access to work. The El Encín field worked 12 years, Between 1961 and 1973when his activity was complicated by the construction of a cement factory in the surroundings. The dust hindered research, so that in 73 it was decided to remove the radioactive source and transfer it to the Polytechnic University of Madrid. There he was only three years before embarking on … Read more

A van full of solar panels has been circulating in Europe for four months. The result is as good as doubtful

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The anxiety for autonomy It is still one of the great inconvenience when convincing the skeptics of the electric car. For years, manufacturers juggle the kilometers that can be traveled with a single battery charge. There are even debates on how interesting it is more interesting to increase the size of the batteries or improve recharge times. Among those juggling has been tested with solar panels as a solution to problems. An option that until now does not seem to have given the expected results but that some German researchers point out as an interesting solution to win up to 30% autonomy. What is behind this study? A solar van that promises 30% more autonomy The use of solar energy for the battery recharge of a car and the increase in its autonomy has been studying for a long time. In fact, in 2022 the Lightyear 0an electric car with solar panels that promised to extend autonomy in 70 kilometers every day. Just over a year later, the company itself announced that closed its vehicle division And that, from now on, he would stay with the only thing that seemed to have a future: his solar panels. Its history is the best example of how everything that has to do with the application of solar panels seems to work in cars. Promises of increases of dozens of kilometers of autonomyinterest is generated, it is proven that the system is not so much and ends up falling into oblivion. In an electric car, the space to incorporate solar panels is very small. It can be done on the roof, on the hood and in the trunk. However, the surface is relatively small, the curved shapes of the pieces make the solar sheets that can be incorporated and, as if that were not enough, the results are little encouraging. In fact, the Mercedes Vision EQXXthat the German company uses for its leading tests with the electric car, barely recovered 43 kilometers on a trip that lasted more than 1,200 kilometers thanks to its solar panels. The company, however, is sure that the system can be interesting and The last thing he has tried is a solar paint with which they ensure that they can suppose up to 12,000 additional kilometers per year in a medium SUV and in the light conditions of Germany. Mercedes points out that the efficiency of the system is 20% but has not confirmed what price we are talking or when they expect to be commercially available. At the moment, everything is still part of more research. Which, on the contrary, affirms the study by the Gauss Center for Supercomputing EV and the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, published in Wiley It is that a light commercial vehicle can take performance to this technology. They base their studies on a project that began in 2021. Then, they filled the body of a small van and analyzed the energy recovered between the months of April and July of that year in Hannover. According to its results, the van I could have traveled 530 km from the 1750 km circulated. That is, 30% of the total distance. However, you have to take several things into account. The van left every morning early (5:00 am) to Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin (ISFH). There, the car was detained for hours until the working day was over and the driver returned home touring, again, the approximate 45 minutes it took to his work. They ensure that with this system the van was able to take advantage of more than 60% of the recovered energy and that, in total, extended its autonomy by 30%. However, in the study it is clear that they are estimates in which the energy recovered by the regenerative braking has been discriminated against, for example. They also point out that the tests were performed in the spring and summer months, where the incidence of sunlight is much greater. But, above all, there is a great but: we are talking about a commercial vehicle that spent hours and hours detained and, in addition, strategically positioning to obtain the greatest possible radiation over time. In this way, they reduced shade areas and less efficient areas. Of course, this is not the way of working that is expected of a commercial vehicle that makes much more moved days and that travels much more than 31.25 kilometers recorded in each session. In motionit is expected that the energy collected by the solar panels will be much lower because the shadow periods on the vehicle and the plates are less exposed in their best position. In addition, if the commercial vehicle moves in an urban environment, it is very likely that the shadow areas will increase. Nor is the cost that this system can have. It is possible that in a commercial vehicle it may make more sense than in a tourism but we would have to study the added weight, the increase in temperature inside the cabin and, subsequently, how long the car would need by plugging it into a fast charger (and its cost) to estimate whether or not it really makes sense. Photo | Wiley In Xataka | The owner of a Tesla Model and has filled his roof of solar panels to load “up to 100 km”. It is not a good idea

For a reason as stupid as fun, someone put six wheels and two engines to a Renault 5 Turbo. And the result was great

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Six -wheeled cars have always generated some fascination. From The famous Tyrrel P34 with which Jody Scheckter managed to win a Formula 1 career to the Mercedes G63 AMG 6×6 that became famous for their huge presence and their ability to overcome any obstacle in the desert. The story we bring today has a bit of the first and a lot of the second. The first because, we could think, a Renault 5 Turbo has much more to do with a “little” Tyrrel P34 (at least if we think of its 4.32 meters long for the 5.63 meters maximum that can measure a formula 1 current) that with a gigantic three -axis mercedes. But it also has the second because the original germ of this RENAULT 5 SIX TURBO He was born with the idea of ​​overcoming any obstacle that was presented to him along the way. Any obstacle that, for example, could be found in the Dakar. Yes, in the Dakar. A very crazy Dakar as advertising Those who approach the departure of the Paris-Dakar rally in 1980 had to find a picture as wonderful as amazing. As soon as you could meet four fools who intended to cross Africa with a Vespa as a modified Renault to shelter six wheels. Because that was, exactly, the great objective for which Cristian de Léotard He took the base of one of the most iconic sportsmen of those days to turn it into a three -axis car, six wheels, two engines and, of course, two gearboxes. Léotard was specialized in such modifications and, in fact, he had already experienced with a six -wheel cytroën C15. Did you think that the performance of the mythical van could not be improved? It would not be his only great work. In fact, the Mercedes Class G 6×6 has its origin in the workshop of this French coach. But its most striking, rare and iconic creation is, of course, the Renault 5 Turbo 6×6. Animated by his passion for mechanics and careers OffroadLéotard was gaining experience working within Tissier, a body company specialized in all types of extravagances, such as a Citroën Cx Camperized that seemed to keep a whole city within itself. Over the years, Léotard took his own way to found ADPL (Applicaton Defés Léotard) That, without a doubt, it seems a tribute to ADPT (Applicaton Deféés Tissier), the company in which it grew laborily and in which it sought all possible solutions to create a six -wheel range. That must have been the germ of his craziest project: take two Renault 5, paste them, get him to work with six wheels and face the Dakar sand. And he did it with great success if we attend to the figures. The engendro did not go too much as a mother (4.21 meters that are 10 centimeters more than a RENAULT 4 Current Electric) and only added 100 kg to the whole, being below the ton, as they explain in 12 cylinders. The image was so powerful that I couldn’t miss the opportunity. If I wanted to sell its creation to new customers, it had to show that the car was not only functional, it should also be resistant. The Dakar and its hardness were their best chance and tried to make the most of it. Although he had to retire due to mechanical problems, the rally had generated enough advertising to make a name in the market and, of course, the reference for all those crazy people who wanted to put two extra wheels to their Renault 5. Six wheels, two engines and two gearboxes One of those crazy people in charge of what would be one of Léotard’s most extravagant projects. Make a Renault 5 Turbo a six -wheel car fully functional and effective. To maintain the sports essence of the car and do it as extreme as the original, Léotard returned to “paste” two Renault 5 But this time he also took the opportunity to install a second engine on the front. The Renault 5 Turbo It is pushed by a propeller that sends all its force to the rear wheels. So that it was also effective from the front axle it was decided to install A second engine of Alpine origin 93 hp under the front hood to send the force to the front wheels. Click on the image to go to the original publication They explain in Motorpasion that Léotard described his invention as “a train with two locomotives.” To operate the two engines, the car had two boxes of independent changes and, therefore, with two levers in the front area that were synchronized. The car was, without a doubt, the result of the good work with its project for the Dakar. A car that, in the words of Sixmania (Where you can check more project photographs), it got a much more effective braking than that of the original vehicle, since the drum brakes had been replaced with brake discs on all its wheels. In addition, they assured that stability had improved and offered enormous performance in irregular land. This version Offroad Yes, it survived but the turbo version of this strange Renault 5 6×6 cannot say the same. At the beginning of the 2000s, The car suffered a fire that left it shattered almost entirely. The restoration was never achieved before Cristian de Léotard died in 2014 although in Secret Classics They ensure that a last collector did with what was left of the car to try to return it to life. Photo | ! Koss In Xataka | Someone has taken a Renault 5 and sausage a rotary Mazda engine. And the result is already paid at a stratospheric price

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Athletic Club of Bilbao Soccer Europa League Live Beşiktaş JK The Kosovo Albanian Milot Rashica, with two goals and one assist, and the Portuguese Rafa Silva, with two assists and one goal, upset Athletic Club in Istanbul and gave a well-deserved victory, and life in the Europa League, to Besiktas in their debut in Ole Gunnar Solksjaer’s Turkish bench. In the duel between ‘lions’ against ‘Aguilas Negras’ the locals took the victory brilliantly thanks to their forwards and those who served them spectacular balls behind the defense of an unrecognizable Athletic who will have to wait to seal a pass to the round of 16 for which he still has many options. Rashica opened the scoring in the 17th minute, Unai Gómez equalized on the stroke of half-time in a stroke of fortune that the visitors did not take advantage of, and Rashica again, Rafa Silva and Joao Mario, from a penalty, scored in a second half to forget of those of lions. The Thursday, Depending on the results of this penultimate matchday, or next week in the last match against Viktoria Plzen in San Mamés, they could certify their qualification for the round of 16.

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Champions League AC Milan Soccer Live Girona Football Club Milan chained their fifth victory in the Champions League and mathematically sealed Girona’s elimination by beating Míchel Sánchez’s team 1-0 at San Siro with a solitary goal from Rafael Leao in the first half of the duel, corresponding to the seventh and penultimate day of the league phase of the Champions League. Girona was ambitious in its staging, but Milan soon claimed the initiative and began to collect clear scoring chances. In the tenth minute Paulo Gazzaniga, decisive for another night, diverted a direct free kick from Tijjani Reijnders and a shot from Leao into a corner kick. Míchel’s team began to suffer and to pull back: so far back that when he recovered the ball he was too many meters away from the rival goal. Míchel’s men lost their fear when they saw that their rival did not translate their superiority into goals. He perked up. But he was penalized once again for his chronic lack of goals. Donny van de Beek, new to the eleven, danced in the area and was alone in front of the goal, but Mike Maignan saved the 0-1 score. Right after he denied it to Viktor Tsygankov. And in the end the Italian goal fell, after a loss by Abel Ruiz in the wide zone. Calabria, Emerson’s substitute, saw a spot behind the defense and assisted Leao. The Portuguese ran without opposition until he only had to cut down and shoot Gazzaniga.

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