Tag: Atacama Desert

• Monday, January 13th 2025 - 08:44 UTC

  Chile: Starwatching endangered by industrial project

  

  The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given a project entertained by the electricity company AES Andes which could significantly affect the operations of the Paranal Observatory.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 18:55 UTC

  French company to open world's first solar-powered air traffic control station in Chile

  

  The French company Thales will be opening a 100% solar energy-powered air traffic control (ATC) station in Chile, it was announced in Santiago. The facility will be in the city of Calama in the Atacama Desert in the northern part of the country, it was also explained. The radars consume about one megawatt per hour.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Chilean police launch major search for British astrophysicist disappeared in the Atacama Desert

  

  Chilean police have launched a major search for a British scientist who has gone missing in the north of the country. Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood to have been working.

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  The Antipodas project, a US$2 Billion Subsea Solar Power Cable From Chile To China

  

  By Halev Zaremba Oilprice.com – One of the biggest challenges standing in the way of achieving a 100% renewable energy transition is the fact that key sources of renewable power including wind and solar are variable - meaning that they don’t supply a steady flow of energy production. Instead, they are dependent on external factors such as weather, daylight hours, and seasons.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Remains found by Chilean scientists determined to belong to prehistoric flying dragon

  

  Fossil remains found by a Chilean research team in the Atacama Desert have been determined to belong to a prehistoric pterosaur flying dragon, it was reported.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 18:35 UTC

  Russia eyeing a controlling stake in lithium project in Chile's Atacama desert

  

  Uranium One Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom, may buy a controlling stake in a lithium project in Chile’s Atacama salt flat from Wealth Minerals Ltd, the Canada-listed company said on Tuesday.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 06:51 UTC

  Mars rover work-out controlled in Chile from more 11.000km away in UK

  

  A space control center in the UK has been used to test-drive a prototype Mars rover thousands of miles away in Chile’s Atacama desert. Experts at the European Space Agency’s centre in Oxfordshire completed a series of tests across nearly 11,000 km in order to see how the Mars rover reacts to commands across large distances.

• Monday, November 14th 2016 - 08:36 UTC

  Chile connects Latin America's largest solar plant to the national grid

  

  Spanish clean energy company Acciona Energía has connected the 246MW El Romero solar plant in Atacama desert, Chile to the county’s Interconnected Central System (SIC), becoming Latin America's largest. The US$343m El Romero Solar plant features 776,000 polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic modules, spread across 280ha area in the municipality of Vallenar, 645km north of the Santiago.

• Saturday, October 31st 2015 - 06:26 UTC

  El Niño turns the world's most arid desert into a blossomed carpet

  

  One of the driest places on Earth has blossomed after some unusual rain earlier this year. The Atacama Desert, primarily located in Chile along the Pacific Ocean, is flush with flowers after relatively heavy precipitation in March and August fell in the drought-stricken region.

• Friday, September 25th 2015 - 05:15 UTC

  UN highest court agrees to take the Chile/Bolivia dispute over a sea outlet

  

  The UN's highest court on Thursday agreed to take up a century-old dispute between Chile and Bolivia, saying it could rule in the case as La Paz seeks to regain access to the Pacific. The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ), which oversees disputes between countries, said it “has jurisdiction... to entertain the application filed by Bolivia.”