The US has bought 10% of Intel to save it from burning, and that plans a huge problem. One called favoritism

Intel has agreed to sell 10% of your company to the United States for a value of 8,900 million dollars. An interventionist measure is thus confirmed that has huge implications not only for Intel, but for the entire semiconductor industry. Above all, the American. Historical crisis. The Historical crisis that Intel is going without resolving. And his new CEO, Lip-bu Tanalready I recognized A few weeks ago, “twenty or thirty years ago we were leaders. Now the world has changed. We are not among the ten main semiconductor companies.” The mass layoffs and the decision of Bet everything to lithography 18a –No 20th node– They raised a complicated future for the company, which needs maneuvering margin. He has just obtained it, but we don’t know at what price. Or maybe yes. The agreement. According to indicate in IntelUnited States will invest 8,900 million dollars in company shares, and that adds to the 2.2 billion dollars that the US government paid to the company as part of the Chips and Science Acta federal program that was approved in 2022 and is intended to invest billions of dollars to relive the country’s semiconductor industry. Intel was too big to fall. He Moment of weakness It is still worrying, but there have been two recent “bailouts.” The first, by the Investment of 2 billion dollars of softbank In the company. The second, much more important, the one that has just signed the US government with the purchase of 10% of Intel for 8,900 million dollars. This measure is especially striking for several reasons. For a start, is the first time that the US government intervenes a company since the rescue of the car industry was produced during the 2008 crisis. But there are more implications. Potential loss of autonomy. The agreement is only economic and there will be no official representation of the US government in the Board of Directors of Intel. However, political pressure will now be seen without a doubt increased, and each business decision of Lip-Bu Tan and its team will be seen through a different prism: there is public money at stake. Desperate times, desperate measures? Another perspectives from which this agreement can be contemplated is that of despair. Accepting this governmental “rescue” can be seen as a clear indication that Intel was against the ropes and there was no escape without any movement of this type. For Lip-Bu this can represent a problem for confidence in his leadership now that he has just taken command, and in fact the American senator Tom Cotton He accused him to invest in 600 Chinese companies. President Trump He came to ask for his resignation In Truth Social and then end up meeting him and congratulating him for its management. A logical agreement for Trump’s roadmap. The US president began his mandate with the clear intention of centralize semiconductor production to the maximum and electronics products. This protectionism is closely linked to this decision, and allows to protect Intel in addition to mitigating the dependence of Taiwan and the Chips import and technology From China. The Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, Indian That the agreement is especially beneficial for the US government, pointing out that they were basically giving money to companies through subsidies, but here what the US achieves is to raise that subsidy as an investment. It is not “lost” money. It is not clear that since the money comes from the ACT chips, the US government is allowed to end up obtaining benefits of such “investment.” Favoritism. This politicization of the semiconductor business could end up causing uncomfortable alliances and distorting competition. Now that all kinds of government agencies may have much more inclination to buy Intel chips in the future, while direct competitors such as Apple, AMD, NVIDIA or Qualcomm are harmed before a landscape of government favoritism. Intel, we insist, perhaps it was too big and iconic to drop it, but this intervention raises a change in the rules of the game that affects both Intel and its national competitors and, of course, foreigners. Image | Intel | Gage Skidmore In Xataka | Intel’s plan in front of an unattainable TSMC: beat Samsung and consolidate as the second largest chips manufacturer

A deep warehouse that will save waste until 2100

A few weeks ago, more than 1,800 nuclear waste drivers They began to emerge of the seabed on the Galician coast. The image, as real as symbolic, reopened an old debate: what do we do with the remains of an era that goes out, but does not disappear? While Galicia demands answers and surveillance, another nuclear issue advances without noise, although equally urgent: the fate of the waste that will leave the centrals when they close from 2027. Nuclear energy is out of exit. The problem is that their waste does not know how to leave. A provisional container. The Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) has given the approval, with its conditions, to the design of the Hi-Storm FW container version G. According to the official CSN press releaseEnresa, the public company in charge of managing radioactive waste, has requested this container that will serve to temporarily store the spent Almaraz fuel, Ascó, chest and vandellós II. It is not a definitive solution, but necessary: each unit can contain up to 37 fuel elements of pressure water reactors (PWR) or 89 of boiling water (BWR), and its role will be key during the works of dismantling between 2027 and 2035. Nuclear energy turns off, but their waste needs a place – sure – while the country decides how to bury them forever. More in depth. This movement is part of something much bigger. According to The economist has detailedEnresa has officially reactivated the deep geological warehouse project (AGP), after almost three decades paralyzed. The first phase has already been awarded to the specialized consultant Amphos 21. AGP is, in simple terms, an underground nuclear cemetery. As We have explained in Xatakathe objective is to isolate waste in stable geological formations for thousands – or hundreds of thousands – of years, combining natural barriers with artificial confinement technology. According to Enresathe calendar extends until 2100, and the project is divided into eight stages that cover from initial scientific studies to the construction and eventual sealed. In early stages. Right now it is in phase one: collecting technologies, reviewing technical documentation and preparing the legislative framework that will be defined between 2026 and 2028, According to the economist. From 2029, possible locations will be selected, which will be evaluated in depth until 2039. The construction of the underground laboratory and the technical and environmental licensing process will cover up to 2059. The AGP will be operational by 2073, and will work up to 2100, when its definitive seal is expected. All this is inspired by a specific model: onkalo, The first European AGP in Europein Finland. The project is excavated more than 400 meters deep and is designed to store waste for 100,000 years, where a century will remain open and will then be sealed irreversibly. The electric, uncomfortable with the deadlines. But not everyone is satisfied with the calendar. As we already detail in XatakaEndesa, Iberdrola, Naturgy and EDP, owners of the reactors, have asked the government to advance the implementation of the AGP to 2050. The reason: they want to release the land from the centrals before and allocate them to new industrial uses. In parallel, they have resorted to the Supreme Court the rise of the “Enresa Rate”, which finances nuclear dismantling, considering it an unforeseen and unjustified extra cost. Business pressure puts a background debate on the table: Who should assume the real cost of nuclear energy once it stops producing electricity? And meanwhile? After the failure of the centralized warehouse project in Villar de Cañas (Cuenca), which He was discarded by the new general radioactive waste plan. Spain has opted for a decentralized network of Silos, one by central. However, there is a problem because these stores were not designed for more than 50 years. Therefore, initiatives such as the Hi-Storm FW container are crucial: they allow to strengthen the safety of intermediate storage and gain time while the AGP becomes a reality. And is it the only possible way? Ultimately, the best nuclear residue is the one that is not generated. Here We have talked about technologies such as nuclear fusioneven in an experimental phase, they do not generate hazardous waste. Even within the fission, there are improvement margins: molten or thorium salts reactors would allow fuel to better take better advantage and generate shorter radioactive life. But as long as those options are not profitable, the AGPs remain the only viable viable route. A long -term challenge. Spain has decided to close its nuclear stage, but the waste does not go out with the reactor. The country faces a technical, environmental and moral responsibility that will accompany us for generations. The approval of the Hi-Storm FW container and the AGP reactivation are only the beginning of a long-term race that will be played underground. And in a world that changes every decade, few decisions require thinking of deadlines of 100,000 years. The legacy of nuclear energy forces us, for the first time, to plan as if we were going to be here forever. Image | Unspash Xataka | After confirming the closure of its nuclear power plants, Spain seeks where to build a radioactive waste cemetery

The Samsung chips manufacturing subsidiary walks on the tightrope. Tesla will save her from collapse

Samsung has reached an agreement with Tesla. An important agreement. According to Bloombergthese two companies have signed a commitment that will run until 2033 and for which the subsidiary specialized in the manufacture of integrated circuits of this South Korean company will produce for Tesla chips for a value of 16.5 billion dollars in its Texas plant (USA). Not bad at all, especially if we are in mind that Samsung urgently needs that its semiconductor division Increase your presence in the market. Jay Y. Lee, the president of this company, sent in the middle of last March An internal statement in which it synthesizes with great precision what this company faces: “Our technological advantage has been compromised in all our businesses. It is difficult to see that efforts are being made to boost great innovations or assume new challenges. There are only attempts to maintain the status quo instead of generating disruptive changes. “ The Samsung subsidiary specialized in the manufacture of semiconductors is largely the company’s engine, and to recover health it is essential that its competitiveness increases. However, to carry it out it is necessary that its integration technology of 2 nm pelee from you to you both with the equivalent lithography of Intel, and, above all, with that of TSMC. However, Samsung’s starting point is favorable. And it is because He has been working in which it is undoubtedly The most important photolithography in its history. The 2 nm are crucial Samsung has led for more than three decades the industry of integrated dram circuits, but the rise of the artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered something that just two or three years ago would have seemed unthinkable: now it is also the South Korean SK Hynix the manufacturer of integrated memory circuits that LEADS THE HBM Chips Market so much (High Bandwidth Memory) that work side by side with the GPUs for the The one of the DRAM memories. Chips manufacturers need the candlestick performance of their avant -garde nodes to be at least 70% In current circumstances it is evident that Samsung needs to trace as soon as possible. And it seems that it is in it. At the beginning of 2025 several South Korean media anticipated that Large scale manufacturing of 2 nm chips It had already begun in the company’s South Korean plants. However, this does not mean that Samsung already has everything tied. Chips manufacturers need The performance by wafer of his avant -garde nodes is at least 70%and, according to the South Korean newspaper Munhwa Ilbothis company currently moves in the range of 40 to 50%. Even so, the Japanese chips designer for the preferred networks (PFN) and a South Korean company specialized in the design of neuronal processing units (NPU) They were already interested in early 2025 in which Samsung manufactured his designs in his new 2 nm node. There is no doubt that at the delicate moment this company is going through, having several agreements tied before its competitors initiate large -scale production with equivalent photolithographs is very important. However, this is not all. And is that just five months after that news the South Korean medium Chosunbizwhich in the matter of semiconductors does not usually give stitch without a thread, said Samsung I had already started the evidence In its 2 Nm node For Nvidia and Qualcomm. This test process does not guarantee that Samsung is finally going to manufacture integrated 2 Nm circuits for these two US companies, but their interest in the technology of this South Korean company is an oxygen ball. There is no doubt about that. Image | Samsung More information | Bloomberg In Xataka | This is the chips war: a former SK Hynix employee is suspected to deliver stolen technology to Huawei

So he used his 3D printer to make them himself and save 20,000 euros

Supercars are the culmination of passion for motoring And the speed, But, although they are a minority, not all owners of one of these Engineering jewelry They are millionaires. With a little luck and the passing of the years, some supercarghini, Ferrari or Porsche de Segundo can be achieved (or third hand) for a price much more affordable of what cost new. The bad thing in those cases is that, although cars have lost some of their value, the pieces of replacement to repair them No, and they are still extremely expensive. Especially when the car It is no longer manufactured. Little money, but a lot of ingenuity That is precisely what happened to youtuber B is for builda fan of cars and extreme customizations, which It was proposed to restore An old Lamborghini Murciélago LP 640 who had bought for about $ 35,000. A bargain taking into account that this model has cost about $ 150,000. But such a reduced price It has its explanation. The car had several seriously damaged body elements and, among them, the right lighthouse. To avoid the huge extra cost of the pieces in the concessionaire, he sought the replacement for his bat on eBay. The search was a success, but the best price did not fall from 20,000 euros for a couple of new original lights. Touch the photo to see the original message and the state of Lamborghini when you bought it As the youtuber recognized In your videospend 10,000 euros for each optics From its supercar far exceeded its restoration budget, so, far from discouraging, it chose a much more affordable solution: manufacture them with A 3D printer. To do so, he had to digitize the focus using a scanner and improve the initial scan with 3D modeling hours to finish profileing all angles of a piece as complex as the lighthouse. One of the many challenges he faced was the digitalization and impression of the rings that hold the bulbs lenses. When the scanner laser was manufactured in aluminum, it was not able to detect correctly the details. On the other hand, since they had to resist the high temperatures that the lights reach, these elements had to print with a specific resin with high heat resistance. Interestingly, the simplest part was the outer glass of the focus. Given the shape of the morro of the bat and be located in a delayed position, it was enough to cut a piece of transparent metacrylate with the proper form and adapted perfectly to the soft fall of the morro of the bat. 20,000 euros difference. Original focus (left) and 3D printed focus (right). After hours of evidence, sanding, adjustment and some paint, the truth is that the result was a very well achieved piece. However, some details betrayed that it was a “artisanal” piece. For example, the subject of the focus dome that would never be seen in original Lamborghini. However, the intention of the YouTuber was to create a personalized Lamborghini Murciélago With a post -apocalyptic style In the purest cyberpunk style, so the rivets did not disregard at all, and the foci fulfill their function. In Xataka | I have got into a 420,000 euros car for the first time in my life. Now I know what the millionaires feel Image | Lamborghini, B is for build

save to the maximum on Xiaomi, Huawei and more devices

It is true that The prime day of Amazon It has already happened, but that does not mean that we have lost the opportunity to take advantage of offers and chollos. In fact, right now Aliexpress has active new Vacation offersthat come with a ton of offers on devices of the most important brands. Not only that, but we also have at our disposal A series of discount coupons To save more in our purchases. code discount Minimum purchase ESGD03 3 euros 29 euros ESGD06 6 euros 49 euros ESGD10 10 euros 79 euros ESGD20 20 euros 159 euros ESGD30 30 euros 249 euros ESGD40 40 euros 359 euros ESGD50 50 euros 469 euros The only limitation of these discount codes is that They cannot combine with each othernor can they be used for mobile phones or virtual products. We have offers on devices of the best brands These coupons are not going to allow us to make devices of all kinds at a very good price, since we can add them to the offers that Aliexpress now has. To make them the task a little simpler, we leave you some of the most prominent below: Realme GT 6an outstanding quality-price phone, by 330.99 euros. Xiaomi Mi Band 9 Proideal to control our health and training, by 43.90 euros with the ESGD03 code. Little x7 proa device with great autonomy, by 223.76 euros. PlayStation 5 Slim Digitalthe most economical version of the console, by 396.97 euros with the IFP11pj code. Huawei Watch GT5an elegant smartwatch and with a great screen, by 143.18 euros with the ESGD13 code. Realme GT 6 If we are looking for a phone that stands out in its value for money, we have a very good option with the Realme GT 6. A very interesting device that comes with chip Qualcomm (the 8S GEN3), a 6.78 -inch OLED screen with A high brightness of 6,000 nits and a 5,500 mAh battery that is loaded in a sigh thanks to its fast charge of 120 Hz. All rounded by a Triple Sony camera system and now comes out of 330.99 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review Xiaomi Mi Band 9 Pro If we are looking for a new activity bracelet, one of the best in the market is this Xiaomi Mi Band 9 Pro. With it, we will have a 1.74 -inch AMOLED screen that looks great outdoors in a resistant structure that It barely weighs 24.5 grams. He has a ton of sports modes, autonomy for practically two weeks and we can acquire it right now for 43.90 euros with the ESGD03 code. * Some price may have changed from the last review Little x7 pro Now of this little X7 Pro, a phone of this year that we can already acquire quite lowered. Power and a huge battery of 6,000 mAh are its great buzas, although it also stands out Its 6.67 inches screen with 1.5K resolution and maximum peak shine of 3,200 nits. Double camera system, fast charging of 90 w and a price that now falls to 223.76 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review PlayStation 5 Slim Digital If we are looking for a new console, we have a good opportunity with this PlayStation 5 Slim. It is the digital version of the same, That is the one who comes without a reader (although we can acquire it separately). A hardware that still has rope for a while and that this year has new quality exclusive such as Death Stranding 2. We can acquire it for 396.97 euros with the IFP11pj code. PlayStation 5 Slim Digital * Some price may have changed from the last review Huawei Watch GT5 We now close with a smartwatch, in this case of Huawei. He Watch GT5in its 46 mm version, it is a device that stands out for having a screen with very good quality (1.43 inches) and a classic and elegant cut design. In addition, it is loading ways for us to measure our training. Its battery is able to reach 14 days of autonomy And now it goes out for 143.18 euros with the ESGD13 code. * Some price may have changed from the last review Note: Some of the links published here are affiliated and can report a benefit. Images | Iván Linares in Xataka, Realme, Xiaomi, PlayStation, Huawei In buying | The five mobile phones with better value for money with their analysis In buying | Bluetooth speaker: which are the best? Tips and recommendations

Save the price or save power. And he has chosen the path of self -destruction

In just ten minutes of video call, eight OPEC+ countries made a decision with the potential to alter the balance of the global energy market. Behind this new movement, that could be expectedthere is something else: a carefully calibrated strategy, with economic and geopolitical implications that could spread far beyond the barrel. Opening the tap. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman – the eight OPEC+ countries that They applied volunteer cuts In 2023— they have been gradually increasing Your production. Now they have decided to accelerate this process: from August they will add 548,000 additional daily barrels, and do not rule out another similar increase in September. According to the official notethis could be completed before planning the total reversal of 2.2 million barrels per day that stopped pumping last year. Do you enjoy good health? It seems that yes, or at least that the reason declared by the OPEC+. From the organization They have expressed that there is a “good health of the oil market”, with low inventories and a global demand that remains stable. Giovanni Staunovo, UBS analyst cited by BloombergHe explained that “the market remains adjusted, suggesting that it can absorb additional barrels.” However, there are more reasons behind the scenes. According to Goldman Sachs bank has pointed out for Reuters that the measure is part of a broader strategy to normalize idle capacity and discipline the schist sector in the US. In this way, the entity provides that the eight countries will increase its collective production by 1.67 million BPD between March and September, with Saudi Arabia leading more than 60% of the increase. The threat of oversupply. In the short term, the market seems receptive. The same day of the ad, the price of crude rose slightly, challenging the most pessimistic predictions about the fall in demand. However, medium -term consequences are uncertain. The reality is that the market is currently “adjusted”, commercial tensions and The “Peak Oil” Chinese They could translate into a significant oversupply for the end of the year, especially in winter. The International Energy Agency It foresees a surplus of up to 1.5% of world consumption for the fourth quarter of 2025. In addition, some experts like Doug King, from RCMA Capital, They have remembered in Bloomberg that the “official” increase of the offer does not always equals real availability, since countries like Kazakhstan They keep breaking installments while Saudi Arabia presses for compensation to those who have overcome in the past. A possible domino effect. The OPEC+ decision impacts unevenly. For importing countries such as India or the European Union, the lowest prices of oil relieve internal economic tensions. But for producers outside the poster, the stage is more uncertain. The pressure on the American shale sector, highly dependent on prices above $ 60-65 per barrel, intensifies. Here enters the United States. Interestingly, this measure is also aligned with the political interests of Donald Trump, who has promised to reduce fuel costs to relieve the crisis of the cost of living. Your pressure on OPEC to increase production is well known, and its insistence on Apply tariffs and interest rate cuts could be tilting the balance in its favor. But there is another face: the American oil industry, one of Trump’s main economic and political bastions, It is also the most exposed. If prices fall below 60 dollars, many shale companies could see their profitability compromised. As Oilprice has pointed outdespite the current difficulties of companies such as Exxon and Shell, demand remains more robust than expected, challenging the collapse narrative for electric vehicles. However, the risk is clear: a new price drop could put in check to the United States’s own energy, which has already announced less perforations for this year due to the uncertainty of the market. Can Riad hold it? This is one of the big questions. Despite its apparent confidence, Saudi Arabia also faces internal pressures. According to the International Monetary Fundyou need prices above $ 90 per barrel to cover your budget. The economic reforms of the heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman, which include ambitious national projectsThey require sustained investments. According to Bloombergif prices collapse, Riad could be forced to cut public spending or even withdraw oil from the market to defend their income. A cyclical dynamic. This episode reveals a change in the OPEC+strategy: less emphasis on high prices and more focus on recovering market share, even at the expense of lower prices. As Oilprice has detailedoil remains a market subject to temporary swings, and large oil companies are better prepared to resist. But volatility remains the sign of time. The next chapter will be written on August 3, when the OPEC+ decides if it continues with the last stage of the planned increase, the oil market faces a key question: will the OPEC+ short -term pricing stability work in long -term influence? Image | Pexels Xataka | A new potentially disruptive scenario opens in global energy: China has touched the oil with oil

How a handful of producers save the industry every year

‘Father there is only one 5‘He has razed at the box office. Santiago Segura does not abandon the extraordinary streak of his saga of family films and in his first weekend in Salas he has exceeded his main competitor, ‘F1, the film’, with Brad Pitt. Its accumulated box office touches 1.9 million but if we add its data since Thursday the global reaches 2.4 million euros. That is, with only a few days in his poster, he is already the fourth highest grossing of the year, advancing ‘the infiltrated’. Although Spanish cinema, according to 2024 data Published by Comscorelive a certain phase of stagnation (the figures are good, but they do not grow significantly from one year to another), the truth is that there are more films than ever. It is no longer strange to see national blockbusters that occasionally rival Hollywood’s productions. And taquillazos or not, the number of Spanish films in the cinemas is overwhelming: in 2024 558 films were released, of which 342 were premieres and the rest or films released in 2023 that still remained on the poster or re -restrenes. The result is 35 Spanish films more than in 2023. A simple calculation leads us to an average of seven Spanish films a week Just telling news. In Spain a lot of cinema occurs. This report also detects a certain collection stagnation: 82.2 million, practically identical to the 82.7 million of 2022. In the short term there is hardly any ascending evolution: in 2019, for example, it was around 92 million. In the medium term, it has experienced a remarkable increase: in 2013, more than a decade ago, 70.1 million were collected. What has not been reached is the pre-pandemic figures between one point and another, where 100 million often exceeded, as happened in years such as 2014 (131.8 million), 2015 (111.7 million), 2016 (110 million), 2017 (103.7 million) and 2018 (100 million). That is why Spanish cinema Espabile in terms of box office is expected to return to those figures. The sum of stagnant collection and fired production leads us to Another phenomenon: box office concentration in a few titles. The five highest bullfighting Spanish films in 2024 raised almost 44% of everything collected by Spanish cinema. If we expand the focus, the twenty highest grossing accumulate 80%. So it is normal that we can talk about a series of proper names, producers and producers that, in some way, are those who “hold” Spanish cinema: many of them are known by notorious box office hits, but they also finance more calls to be niche, to collect much less or move by alternative circuits. It was not the case of ‘The infiltrated‘, one of the most notable surprise successes of 2024: its producer María Luisa Gutiérrez surprised to collect the Goya for Best Film dedicating part of His speech to his partner Santiago Segura. We are going to review some of those outstanding producers of the Spanish industry, which produce commercial box office successes and also reinvute in smaller products. Many of them are also “patron” of a less profitable cinema which is the one that really fattens these premieres figures beyond the handful of annual blockbusters. Not everyone moves by these parameters exactly, so we analyze case by case. Note: We have dispensed with this list of very relevant producers of the world of television and streaming, since they leave our object of analysis of the producers that “support” the film industry, although the transfer of directors, screenwriters and performers is increasingly common between cinema and television. Similarly, some of the pictures with figures can call an error, since pure box office collections are reflected in front of budgets, not counting the subsidies that the films receive and that, without them, can throw negative balances. What undoubtedly gives much more merit to the positive numbers of producers such as safe, benito or rock. Santiago Segura Graph: Javier Lacort Like your cinema or not, it is the main value of Spanish cinema. In 2024, ‘Father there is only one 4 ‘raised 13.4 million euroswith almost 2.2 million viewers. The previous deliveries were always the highest grossing of their respective years of premiere, and safe has been accompanying them with other similar formula productions, such as’ to every train. Asturias destination ‘, the highest grossing film of 2021. But also, its producer Bowfingerwhich has together with the aforementioned María Luisa Gutiérrez, also produces very different films, such as ‘La Infiltrada’, which despite its modesty became the second highest grossing Spanish film of 2024, with 8’1 million euros. In addition to another family comedy, ‘The Beneston family’ and its four million euros, Bowfinger has raised 31% of the Spanish cinema box office in 2024. The work of Bowfinger also crystallizes in the production of films not only away from the family style of safe films, but from a more independent cut: evening’. The Javis Perhaps the most media producers of the moment, and in which it is complex to distinguish between more commercial and author pieces, since they all imprisoned their unequivocal personal seal. The most personal and ambitious normally direct them (‘Paquita Salas’, ‘Veneno’, ‘The Messiah’). In its producer Sum Contentalways under an unequivocal global author style, they accommodate other more modest and more limited rains (‘Terror and Fair’, ‘Cardo’, ‘A Christmas with Samantha Hudson’, ‘Dressed in blue’). Although most of their productions are for television and streamingwe have included them in this list for their media relevance and constant work with dynamics and authors from cinema. Belén Atienza One of the most relevant producers of the current Spanish scenario, popular especially for its association with Juan Antonio Bayona, in whose productions he has collaborating since the director’s debut, ‘The orphanage’. Theirs are indisputable successes, also internationally, such as ‘the impossible’, ‘Jurassic World: the fallen kingdom’, ‘A monster comes to see me’, and the recent ‘The Snow Society’, with a smaller collection but smaller but more reduced but Still notable for having released in a … Read more

To batteries, it does not need to recharge and save millions of liters of diesel

While Europe looks with sweet eyes on Hydrogen train and In Argentina they already presume their solar trainAustralia boasts of her brand new electric train. Wait, how “electric train” when that exists for decades and It is called Ave? Because the Australian train has an important nuance: it works with batteries and is not connected to the catenary. The result? An “infinite train” manufactured with racing technology. And with a mission: save a lot of money in diesel. The ‘Infinity Train’. Mining in Australia is a huge business And companies invest to improve their infrastructure, thus being more competitive and efficient in every way. Fortescue (how difficult it is not to write “Fortesque” as in ‘Medievil‘) is one of those companies, and just announce who have completed the pilot trip of their “intinifo train.” Driven only by its battery system and without being connected to the current, this ‘Intinity Train’ has completed a trip of about 1,100 kilometers, and the most impressive thing is that it will have to do another 1,100 kilometers back without having to recharge. In fact, the idea is to make constant round trips without going through a plug. His trick is not called Solar panels Not anything like that: it’s called regenerative braking. Formula braking 1 AND. In 2022, Fortescue acquired 100% of Williams Advanced Engineering, a British company founded as a split of the Williams team of Formula 1, but focused on the creation of High performance batteries for formula E. The purchase was closed for 223 million dollars and the objective was Accelerate decarbonization in the company’s mining operations. One of the keys to Formula E, which also applies to the Formula 1 battery system, is the generation of electric power thanks to braking. It is like a dynamo that generates electricity with the engine in reverse, and in the case of ‘Infinity Train’, it is a tremendously magnified process. A huge asterisk. Because here the trick is that the round trip from Perth to the Pilbara region makes it loaded with materials, increasing the weight of the train and maximizing regeneration in braking. But, in addition, it is a route with a slope down. The slope on the road to the mines to the port is 600 meters, so the train has more than 1,000 kilometers to, with up to 34,000 tons of iron from the mines, generating electricity that compensates for the expense it can do. The return path makes it downloaded and ‘strip’ of that energy that has filled the batteries so as not to need an external load nor the support of the catenaries. And start again: they return to load the train, go downhill up loading their batteries and then climb the energy generated. The matter of money. In a huge continent and with the complicated terrain to install catenaries, it is a solution that has all the way, but the limitation is more than evident: the technology of this train can only be applied in situations as specific as that of long journeys in which the phase of being loaded with materials is done downhill. In other situations, it seems more complicated. But well, the company’s intention is to electrify its more than 50 transport trains for 2030 with the aim of reducing its emissions and, in addition, saving What Diesel costs. It is difficult to get the idea of ​​magnitude, but They speak to cut 82 million liters of fuel per year and reduce 11% of its annual CO₂ emissions if they electrify the train network. Electrifying the mines. From the company they affirm that this technology can be exported to everyone, and in the end it is another step in the MODERNIZATION OF MINES. It is precisely in this work environment that the electrification It seems very necessary not only to reduce emissions and that companies meet their objectives, but to improve the health of workers. In recent years we are seeing Betting for electric trucks and even automatedand the ‘infinite train’ adds to the trend, but with the great point against that it is a possible vehicle in extremely concrete situations. Image | Fortescue In Xataka | France has thousands of kilometers of unused train tracks. So you are covering them with solar panels

The Chinese solar sector wanted to save itself from overproduction with a pact. Just managed to sink faster

Despite being a reference country World Cup in renewable energy, China Face a perfect storm In its solar sector: price collapse, red margins and an uncontrolled overproduction. Given this situation, more than 30 solar manufacturers agreed to stop the offer to stabilize the market, imitating the OPEC model. A kind of “Solar Cartel” in the style of oil exporting countries. It hasn’t done very well … Six months later, the result has been a disaster. Far from stabilizing, production has reached historical maximums, the facilities have tripled and losses continue to accumulate. According to Bloombergdifferent executives in the sector have publicly expressed their frustration and accuse their competitors of betraying the collective pact. OPEC style? Some of the big Chinese photovoltaic companies seem to be following the example of OPEC. As He explained Oilprice, the famous oil sign has been adjusting its production to influence global prices. The logic is clear: if the offer is limited, the price drop is contained and war between producers is avoided. Something similar is happening in the solar sector. Longi, Tongwei and Ja Solar have signed a “self -discipline” agreement under the Chinese association of the photovoltaic industry. The reason? Profitability is falling as panel prices, modules and wafers continue to fall. The pact seeks to set production fees by 2025, depending on the installed capacity and market share of each company. Chronicle of an announced death. Like Santiago Nasar at 5:30, this pact also had an inevitable ending. Unlike the oil market – dominated by state giants – the Chinese solar sector is private, fragmented and fiercely competitive. According to Bloombergthe agreement was not binding or contemplated sanctions. It was nothing more than a declaration of good intentions. And while some expected others to fulfill, many took the opportunity to gain market share producing even more. The result was excess supply, prices in free fall and sunken balances. No rules and every machine. According to Oilpricethe plan included limiting new investments, raising the technical requirements and increasing from 20% to 30% the minimum capital required for new projects. The government also implemented measures to cool the overheated sector. However, instead of containing themselves, companies intensified production so as not to lose relevance. According to data cited by Bloombergsolar facilities tripled in a year, and manufacturers have not closed or reduced operations significantly. The damage has been tangible. Longi Green Energy, one of the leaders of the sector, reported in the third quarter of 2024 a loss of 174 million dollars (1,261 million yuan), its first major fall since 2016. In the words of the company itself, collected by Oilpricelast year marked the first collective loss of the sector in almost a decade. The Chinese government has already hardened the conditions for new investments, and there are voices that ask for a firmer intervention. But the truth is that the “OPEC Solar” has failed loudly. The market remains overflowing, depressed prices and competition more wild than ever. The mirage of coordination. Try to coordinate a privatized and fragmented industry with a voluntary pact has been, as has detailed Bloomberg, an idea “condemned from the beginning.” Far from an orderly cartel, the attempt has exposed the structural weaknesses of the Chinese solar model: brutal efficiency, but without rules or firewalls. China continues to lead the world in installed capacity for renewables. But its solar manufacturing sector now faces a hard truth: in a market without discipline or referees, surviving is more difficult than producing. Image | Grégory Roose (Pixabay) Xataka | China’s energy paradox: an ‘electrostate’ that continues to feed on coal

They are a simple way to save lives

Surely you have noticed them on a road trip, taking a walk through the field or in the vicinity of an airport. They are spheres of an intense orange or red that hang from the highest cables of high voltage lines. They might seem an inscrutable electrical piece, but reality is much simpler. They serve to save lives. Far from being an electrical component, these spheres have a simple function regulated by international aeronautical regulations. They have nothing to do with the management of electricity that circulates through the cables. His mission is to see. Signaling beacons. The technical name of these balls is spherical visual signaling beacons or beacon spheres, for friends. Its objective is to signal the presence of electric laying on aircraft pilots that fly at low altitude: helicopters, light airplanes, fumigation planes or emergency services, hot air balloons … In conditions of little visibility, with the light of dawn or sunset, or simply because of the thinness of the cables themselves, a high voltage line can become practically invisible against the bottom of the terrain or sky, which represents a risk of catastrophic collision. The spheres, with their bright colors and their considerable size, break the camouflage of the electric laying and alert the pilots of an obstacle that could be a deadly trap. They regulate civil aviation. Its installation is mandatory in areas of special risk according to the civil aviation regulations of each country, which in turn usually follows the guidelines of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). That is why they are usually quite standardized. They are in the vicinity of airports and helipuertos, crossing large valleys or rivers, in mountainous areas where aircraft can fly below the top and on large masses of water, such as lakes or reservoirs. They are not small. Its diameter is usually a minimum of 60 cm, although they can reach 90. They are made of light but extremely resistant to ultraviolet rays, such as reinforced polyester with glass fiberglass or high density polyethylene. Its weight is around 5 to 7 kilograms. The most common color is aviation orange, but white and red are also used, sometimes alternately, to maximize visibility in different light conditions and varied funds, such as a snowy field or a cloudy sky. The distance between spheres does not usually exceed 60 meters, although it can be reduced to 30 meters in critical areas such as the vicinity of a landing track. Secondary function. Although its main purpose is air security, these spheres fulfill a second ecological function: the protection of the avifauna. Bird collisions against electrical lines are one of the main causes of unnatural mortality for many species, especially for large and fast flights such as craps, stork or raptors. As for a pilot, for a bird in full migratory flight a thin cable is almost undetectable. Color beacons act as an element of visual deterrence that helps birds identify the obstacle and vary their course. In fact, in this field more specific devices have emerged already complementary, known as lifeguard or bird flight divers. In Xataka | The great paradox of solar energy: the cheaper it is, the more the electricity grid collapses worldwide

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