Tuesday, November 28
Venture capital seeks to ally with energy companies in the race for green hydrogen
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Venture capital seeks to ally with energy companies in the race for green hydrogen

Renewables have become one of the most appreciated businesses by investors from all over the world, who have seen in the decarbonisation of the economy one of the best strategies to obtain large capital gains. Faced with the 'boom' of technologies such as wind or photovoltaic, the hydrogen it is still a niche to explore and develop, but it has already aroused the interest of different investors who expect it to become one of the green technologies of the future. According Different financial sources have been indicated to El Periódico de España, a wide profile of venture capital investors are knocking on the door of the large energy companies to join forces with them to develop different initiatives related t...
Cheaper AVE tickets for congressmen traveling to Alicante and groups to Terra Natura
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Cheaper AVE tickets for congressmen traveling to Alicante and groups to Terra Natura

Renfe, Alicante City Hall and Terra Natura Park have signed two agreements within the framework of Fitur. The agreement signed by the director of Ave-Larga Distancia of Renfe, Francisco Arteaga Gómez and Javier Zapata García, Commercial and Marketing Director of Terra Natura, aims to promote, on the one hand, the visit to the park as a tourist destination and, on the other hand, , encourage and promote the use of the Ave and Long Distance trains when traveling to visit the park. By virtue of the agreement, Terra Natura undertakes to promote Renfe services as a means of transport, in particular those provided by the AVE–Larga Distancia trains, in all the activities it carries out for the promotion of general tourism in ...
Videos of drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians released
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Videos of drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians released

Videos of US attack that killed 10 civilians in Kabul released 0:57 (CNN) -- The US military on Wednesday released videos of the failed Aug. 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children. Newly released videos show the view from above of Kabul as the military tracked a white Toyota Corolla through the city, believing it to be an ISIS-K car loaded with explosives, and prepared to attack it in a pre-emptive strike. The Pentagon initially defended the attack, claiming it had killed an ISIS-K operative planning an imminent attack on US forces during the final days of the evacuation and withdrawal from Afghanistan. Just three days earlier, an ISIS-K suicide bomber had killed 13...
Ibercaja officially confirms its next IPO
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Ibercaja officially confirms its next IPO

Ibercaja is about to act the button to start your listing on the stock exchanges Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao and Valencia, which is expected to materialize in February, when a window of opportunity appears in the market. Moreover, this Thursday, the entity has officially confirmed its plans to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). The board of directors of the Aragonese bank met this Wednesday to specify the details and will do so again on imminent dates to deliberate and authorize the launch of the jump to the parquet, always before February 1, which is the deadline that has been set. According to a statement released this Thursday early in the morning by the entity itself, the actions that will b...
The researcher Vicente Larraga, on the single Covid and flu vaccine: “It can be done and it makes sense”
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The researcher Vicente Larraga, on the single Covid and flu vaccine: “It can be done and it makes sense”

Modern American Pharmaceutical announced this Monday that he works in a single vaccine against him SARS-CoV-2 and the virus flu that could be ready for finals 2023. An advance that analyzes for El Periódico de Españato the teacher Vicente Larraga, responsible for the Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology and Vaccines at the Center for Biological Research-Margarita Salas del Superior Council of Scientific Investigations (CSIC). It makes sense, it can be done and it would be useful, he assures, but it would only be necessary to solve the conservation problems of both vaccines. If we talk about the 'flu' of the Covid-19 pandemic, the researcher assures: "It will occur, but not in three months. With a bit of luck it will be next year". ...
Saliva tests, more effective in detecting the omicron variant
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Saliva tests, more effective in detecting the omicron variant

Since ómicron burst in with its explosion of infections changing the course of the pandemic, a new way of understanding Covid-19 was established with it. Its high degree of transmission has been one of the factors that has led a large part of the citizenry to carry out one or more antigen test in the last weeks. Now, the debate is served with the results thrown by several studies, which show that saliva tests would be the most effective tests to detect this new variant. One of the most conclusive studies was carried out at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa. It compared the self-diagnosis tests of 382 patients already infected with Covid-19. In those with delta variant, saliva samples detected SAR...
Thousands of electrical towers are adapted in the Valencian Community to save birds
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Thousands of electrical towers are adapted in the Valencian Community to save birds

The Valencian Community has corrected in the last four years more than 10,000 electrical supports considered dangerous. Specifically, the action has intensified during the 2019-2021 period and has multiplied by six the sum of actions carried out in the previous decade. The increase in these corrections, promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Ecological Transition, has meant a decline in year-on-year bird mortality of over 25%, according to sources from the Generalitat. Death by collision or electrocution is one of the main threats suffered by wild birds in Spain, as conservation ...
The pig macro-farms have a problem and it is not Garzón: it is the Chinese market
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The pig macro-farms have a problem and it is not Garzón: it is the Chinese market

The golden age of the Spanish pig comes to an end as China recovers from its swine feverMore than half of Spanish pork production is exported and the Asian country is our main buyerEcologists warn that those who will lose out will be the ranchers who have worked for years as part of large companies On November 16, 2007, Spain and China signed an agreement in Beijing that opened the door to pork export to asian country, the largest consumer in the world. The process had started two years before. Were needed diplomatic visits (of the Minister of Agriculture, Elena Espinosa, and of the kings) and techniques (from the Chinese supervisors, to verify that our co...
There are dangerous asteroids that cannot be detected in time
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There are dangerous asteroids that cannot be detected in time

Astronomers have discovered that there are potentially dangerous asteroids that cannot be detected by telescopes. It happened in 2019 and it may happen again with unforeseen results. Astronomers from the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Hawaii warn in an article published in the journal Icarus that there is a zone of space through which potentially dangerous asteroids (NEOs) can approach Earth without being detected. They remember that this already happened in 2019, when an asteroid about 100 meters in diameter passed the Earth at full speed just 70,000 kilometers away. ...
Iberia and the Government relax the deadlines to reach an agreement on Air Europa
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Iberia and the Government relax the deadlines to reach an agreement on Air Europa

Iberia Y Air Europa They decided in mid-December to break the merger agreement reached two years earlier. The airlines considered broken that agreement that had dragged on for so long, but they gave themselves until the end of January to find a plan B that allows them another type of alliance or integration that does not imply the total absorption of Air Europa. some conversations in which the government also has a leading role because the alternative operation will involve the entry of the State in the shareholding of Air Europa to guarantee its viability. Iberia and Air Europa gave each other very little time to reach a new agreement, barely a month and a half since they announced the breakdown of the merger agreem...