🇪🇸 RogerVil
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@RGarlicville
Analista de las dinámicas que conforman nuestro mundo con las lentes de un español.
The housing situation in Portugal is a travesty. Median net salary in Portugal is around 1200€. The average rent for a one bedroom apartment in Lisbon? Around 1300€ in 2026. Want to buy instead? It’s 400,000€. One salary literally isn’t enough for even the smallest house. Young people have no future. Entire generations are going to be plunged into poverty and homelessness. And what do the governments do? Nothing. They literally don’t care. Radical change is needed or something disastrous is going to happen.
Las declaraciones de Sarah Santaolalla acusando a jueces, policías y periodistas de dar un golpe de Estado son gravísimas. Que se ataque de esa manera a jueces y policías, que cada día sostienen el Estado de derecho y se juegan la vida, es intolerable. Puede que algunos quieran ampararlo dentro de la libertad de expresión, eso ya se verá, pero una cosa es opinar y otra señalar y alimentar el odio contra quienes hacen cumplir la ley y garantizan la democracia. Cuesta entender cómo alguien puede ganarse la vida, y muy bien por cierto, opinando en un ente público como RTVE dedicándose a señalar y desacreditar a jueces y policías. Video fuente YouTube acto de Facua.
On Iran negotiations, senior White House official told me the major sticking points are still 1. no nuclear weapons 2. opening the Strait of Hormuz "Number one goal is Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. Number two, the Strait needs to be open, no tolling, no strikes by Iran ..."
Japan just turned thin air into fuel. No oil rigs. No drilling. No pipelines stretching across oceans. Just water, CO₂, and a process that flips combustion on its head. ENEOS Corporation, Japan's biggest oil refiner, pulled it off at their Yokohama lab. They built a demo plant that sucks carbon dioxide straight from the atmosphere, splits hydrogen out of water using renewable energy, then fuses them through Fischer-Tropsch synthesis into liquid hydrocarbons. The result? Real, usable synthetic petroleum. The kicker: this fuel is "drop-in ready." That means it works in the cars you already drive, the planes already in the sky, the pipelines already in the ground. Zero modifications. They didn't just brew it in a beaker either. They ran actual vehicles on it. It works. Think about what that unlocks. Countries with no oil reserves could manufacture their own fuel using nothing but sunlight, wind, and the air around them. The geopolitical chessboard would flip overnight. Sectors that electrification can't easily touch, like aviation and heavy shipping, suddenly have a clean fuel path. There's a catch, though. The process is hungry. The same electricity it takes to brew one liter of synthetic fuel could push an EV about 200 km down the road. ENEOS quietly shelved the project in 2025 because the economics didn't math out yet. But the science? Proven. The blueprint exists. Someone, somewhere, will crack the cost problem. And the day they do, the oil map of the planet gets redrawn. - @ScienceFocusonX
