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By Juliette BROSSAULT West-France
Successful bet for NASA, which managed to produce 100 minutes of oxygen on the planet Mars. According Slatethe agency has developed the Moxie device, which stands for “Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment”, consisting of pumps and compressors that suck carbon dioxide from Mars.
This had been sent to Mars in February 2021 with the rover Perseverance, to the front of which it had been fixed. Moxie would thus have produced 15 minutes of oxygen per hour for seven hours. “It’s a brilliant success”, welcomed Michael Hecht of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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MIT’s MOXIE experiment started making oxygen on Mars in April 2021, when it touched down as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. The instrument is now reliably producing six grams of oxygen per hour — regarding the rate of a modest tree on Earth. https://t.co/Isgh6kX0S9 pic.twitter.com/17qJC81NNe
— Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (@MIT) September 1, 2022
A result considered all the more interesting and promising as multiple oxygen production conditions were tested by the teams. Thus, day or night, even in extreme temperatures or in a sandstorm, the Moxie device would have succeeded in producing pure and usable oxygen, recalls the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a blog post.
Building on this success, NASA now plans to repeat the experiment on a larger scale and thus increase the volume of oxygen produced. Ultimately, it might thus allow the supply of oxygen to human teams sent to Mars for an entire stay, return journey included.
A major gamble with regard to the physical and technical parameters involved in the equation. It will inevitably be necessary to go through a larger and more productive version of the instrument. In April 2021, this toaster-sized device managed to produce the equivalent of ten minutes of oxygen.
In summer when it’s hot, one of the solutions to cool off is to go to the cinema, where the dark rooms are, for the most part, air-conditioned. Good plan, now let’s talk regarding an application, which allows you to find less expensive sessions around you! Ozzak that’s its name, is from Nantes and was launched last year in Nantes, in Bressuire, and since July 20 (2022) in Guérande. Sylvain Mante, co-founder of the Ozzak app, explained how the app works to Nolwenn Even.
“It is a platform that is available on stores on smartphones, Iphone and Android, and also on the web via the website www.ozzak.fr The operation is very simple: once you are on Ozzak, you just have to indicate your location, it can be your address or the city in which you are located, and automatically Ozzak will propel you to all the screenings offered by the partner cinemas around you. You will be able to view the sessions, the number of places available per session as well as the privilege price… and once you have found the session you are interested in, simply book on Ozzak and present the QR Code received by email. straight to the movies.”
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The cinemas estimate the filling of the rooms in the year around 20-25%. The shortfall is in fact significant, so have the first effects of the application been felt for cinemas already registered or partners? According to Sylvain Mante, “it’s a bit early to tell since the device has been launched for ten months now. In the Nantes region and in Bressuire, around 2,000 places have been sold since the launch. This is a figure that is changing day by day, we are satisfied and hope that in the coming months Ozzak will have a real impact on attendance and the filling of cinemas.”
In the West, the development will be more on the Brittany side with a deployment in Rennes at the start of the school year in September, and the objective is also to arrive in Paris and the Paris region.
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The platform offers preferential rates between -30 and 50% instead. The objective for Sylvain Mante is not to sell off the seventh art, but to relaunch ticket sales because the initial idea, as he tells Nolwenn Even, came with his two partners, Cédric and Mélanie, all left to discover the latest Marvel at the cinema on a Saturday evening.
“We found ourselves in an almost empty room. At that time, we went from a super affordable price (student) to a slightly higher price (for young professionals), without having enormous purchasing power, that slowed us down in our cinema outings. We always wanted to go there regularly but we were faced with almost empty cinemas and we therefore looked for a solution, which would help the general public to go more regularly and more spontaneously to the cinema, while helping exhibitors to improve the filling of cinemas.”
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On this day of cinema releases, ideal outing in hot weather, note the arrival on the big screen of the thriller (film between humor and violence) “Bullet Train“, with Brad Pitt, who plays an unlucky assassin, and French comedy “year of the shark” with Marina Foïs and Kad Merad.
Finally tomorrow evening (Thursday August 5), the film “Top Gun Maverick” will be screened at the Guingamp public garden (10:30 p.m.). Tickets can be booked now at the cinema, Les Korrigans. Price of 6 euros for adults and 5 euros for children under 14 years old.
Blazes of hay on the roads, empty stalls in supermarkets… It has been seven weeks since thousands of farmers mobilize every day to NetherlandsEurope’s leading meat exporter, to denounce an environmental plan they deem unfair
. Monday 1is August, they plan to toughen their action by blocking the ports and Schiphol-Amsterdam airport, the second largest in the European Union.
Anger had been simmering since the announcement of the radical nitrogen plan
fin 2021 : it provides for the disappearance of 30% of livestock and a limitation of fertilizers saturated with ammonia. A heartbreak for this country champion of intensive breeding. Even more than the 100 million poultry, it is the 4 million cattle and 12 million pigs that are worrying: their droppings generate 40% of the country’s nitrogen emissions. But Amsterdam wants to halve, by 2030, these discharges from livestock effluents.
We are reaching the limits of what nature can bear
sums up the Liberal government of Mark Rutte. With 17.7 million inhabitants, this small overpopulated country is suffocating under pollution. Nitrogen-soaked soils, dirty water, green algae in profusion… Not to mention the burping and farting of cows and pigs, which alone release 16% of Dutch greenhouse gas emissions.
Nature Minister Christianne van der Wal does not mince words: “Not all farmers will be able to continue their activity. And the others will have to review their practices. »
More than 24 billion euros are planned to cushion the transition, buy back land and compensate breeders. Unacceptable
, decides the Farmers Defense Group union. Farmers refuse to be the only ones to toast when industry continues to pollute.
They don’t digest either. political inconsistencies
and the newly signed free trade agreement between the EU and New Zealand. An agreement obsolete
“, also says the European farmers’ union Via Campesina: Priority is given to agri-export rather than the changes that farmers and the planet need.
