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France will be putting out a major call for tenders in 2025 to increase its offshore wind farms production, with the aim of reaching 10 gigawatts by 2035, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday at a conference in the Brittany region. SOUNDBITE
A convoy of the Israeli delegation arrives at the Lebanon border at Rosh Hanikra, ahead of the signature of a US-brokered maritime border deal. IMAGES
Scientists in Britain say they have smashed a previous record for generating "sustained" fusion energy, on the protracted path towards harnessing a power source considered cheap and clean. A team at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility near Oxford in central England generated 59 megajoules of sustained energy during an experiment in December, more than doubling a 1997 record. SOUNDBITE
Sao Paulo (Brazil), Jun 21 (EFE).- (Camera: Wallace Carvalho) As if designing Covid-19 vaccines wasn’t already a challenge, Brazilian scientists are taking it up a notch.Experts at Butantan laboratory — currently responsible for producing the Chinese vaccine Sinovac in Brazil — are working around the clock to gather 20 million eggs to produce 40 million doses of their very own Brazilian-made Covid-19 vaccine, Butanvac.FOOTAGE OF THE BUTANTAN LAB.DOUGLAS GONÇALVES DE MACEDO, PRODUCTION MANAGER OF THE BUTANVAC.TRANSLATION:"THE AVERAGE EXPECTED YIELD IS THAT EACH EGG GIVES US TWO DOSES OF BUTANVAC.""EACH EGG IS GOING TO RECEIVE A SMALL AMOUNT OF THE VIRUS THAT WE ARE WORKING ON AND AFTER THAT PROCESS IT IS INCUBATED TWO OR THREE DAYS, WITH CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY.""THE PRODUCTION OF THE IFA IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE PRODUCTION OF THE FLU VACCINE, IT USES THE SAME PLATFORM, SAME FACTORY."
One of the driest places on earth, the Atacama Desert in the Antofagasta Region in Chile, has been putting its high share of solar radiation to good use as it has become home to Cerro Dominador solar plant, the first of its kind in Latin America and one of the largest in the world.