Tag: Marcelo Leppe

• Thursday, September 23rd 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Chilean Antarctic bases changing energy sources with German support

  

  The Chilean Antarctic Institute, Inach, Germany's International Cooperation Agency, GIZ, and the Antarctica Foundation 21 have started working in energy options, assessing alternatives for the Chilean bases in the continent, avoiding CO2 emissions, such as green hydrogen.

• Friday, December 13th 2019 - 18:03 UTC

  Finding survivors from doomed Chilean Hercules unlikely but trips will continue

  

  Chilean Air Force (FACh) Chief-of-Staff General Arturo Merino Núñez Thursday ruled out the possibility of finding any survivors from Monday's Hercules C-130 transport aircraft which crashed into the Drake Passage enroute to Antarctica with 38 people onboard after human parts from the wreckage were found later in the week.