Several participation in the face, among the astronomers of the northern Chilean desert, among the astronomers that build the largest optical telescope, an international corporation proposed these plans that proposed the green company Megaproject.
For decades, astronomers have a desert in Chile as a premiered place to study the universe. Populated, Away from the sources of land light pollution And above most clouds and turbulences of bright stars, Atacama has created multiple world observations to take advantage of those who think they are the darkest and clearer night skies of the earth. The main paranic observatory is the main observatories (Secondary) Consortia built and managed. The paranean facility, however, the high expansion of the construction of Secondary 5.5 million should be 5.5 million, with primary mirrors in diameter almost 40 meters, that is, if the remains of the nearest construction project are not the headset of the nearby project.
Aes Andes after the American company sponsored, 10 billion Inna (for generation of Energy Innegrated Hydrogen and Ammonia) includes plans for more than 3,000 hectares (about 7,400 hectares)). As proposed, parts of the Complex Inna can take five kilometers to paranus and its telescopes, which can cause effects, requesting them to relocate the energy project more than 10 times.
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“During the construction of dust, the increasing capabilities of the turbulence and especially the impatience of the impatience (said. The proximity of the BARCONs of the Industrial Megaproids of the Industry For most pristine skies “leads to risk.”
The best skies on earth
DBH has plenty of evidence to return to the claim “hardest night skies”. As he stated in his press release, a 2023 Exam Fabio Falchi directs a PhD student in Fabio Falchi Santiago de Compostela, found 28 important observatories around the world, was paranus The darkest area from all. ELT site currently being builtCerro Armazones, the second is great. It is important that these sites have the skies that have the skies that have the skies that have less than six skies with heaven. The other most important observatories, there are almost two-thirds of those within the research considered and within the US continental Committed observations Because the skies are done much brighter According to light pollution, Falchi’s examination has been reported.
For very ideal conditions for astronomy in Chile, it has become almost 40% of the ability to observe astronomy based on the world. Including current projects, in the next decade, this number will rise to 60 percent. The scientific grant of this trend has already been revolutionary, and the telescopers look deeply in the dark skies of the Atacama. They have done in many major findings. However, what can be The first images of an exoplanet and, separately Milky Way to Central Black Hole Hole. Are willing to deliver Elt and the next generation telescopes Even more extra advancespossibly New measurements of dark energy and First live images rock, Earth Exoplanet.
This makes any threat to the natural cleanliness of the sky in this remote region of Chile. If the INNA project continues as planned, “There will be no more available edges and edges of the universe that is no longer available,” Barcon says. And many of these areas, in fact, the elt and high-development giant telescope designed the probes, added.
Megaproject in micro details
The AES was designed and designed the INNA project in response to the national strategy of Chile’s hydrogen Green Strategy, a plan of action to be a global pre-runner of the nation. Blueprint declared several Chilean sites as a renewable energy center; The complex would be placed inside one of them. In addition to the main project facilities, INNA plans, also requires thousands of thousands of solar and electricity generators, as well as the coastal port and the desalination area, all using pipes and transmission wires connected to mass energy storage systems. .
In a statement Scientific American, The AES Andes officials have expressed the main priority for our cooperation, ensuring that we maintain the largest environmental and safety standards for local economic development. We understand that in terms of renewable energy generated by the development of ESO, we are committed to collaborating with all agents in the environmental process . “
The project has been designed for compliance with regulations for light pollution on the light pollution spent in 2022. Light pollution limit for individual areas. It is noteworthy that although individual installation can fill 1 percentage limit, the accumulative amount of light pollution in an astronomical area is available to reach 10 percentage levels. And the level of light pollution is higher in the horror officials of the Inn, paranean and the catastrophic consequences of elt.
Dark disagreements
Aes Andes makes the harsh rating taken by competition. The ESO press releases, however, that one of the project facilities will be between 5 and 11 km from Paranean telescopes.
In addition, AES Andes said that the sky shine of the telescope has risen by 0.09 percent and 0.27 percent in a very large telescame, located in the desert atocama. According to the Ministry of Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the DBH has said that the AES is based on the light pollution provided by the AES is based on the Terra project, an older version of INNA and much smaller. According to the report, the AES Andes Group Inna project could have more than five times more power than an older version. Using this estimate in his analysis, most paranoral observers would see 5 to 10 percent increase in the background of the INNA project, the highest brilliance of the highest bright shine of the highest brightness of the largest brightness of the INNA project.
Although relatively small, magnification would significantly reduce the capabilities of the affected telescopes, large and small. Small magnifications in the sky is the background of the sky, which astronomers must observe a weak object to get a clean sign. This gives telescopes less time to observe more objects, but it makes very weak objects, such as very early galaxies and non-livable exoplans cannot be seen at all; If the object disappears enough, the image will be saturated before the signal becomes clear. “Being brighter skies means that your choice is chopping. It’s like being a smaller telescope,” says Falchi, a great project like “money and resources waste”.
Barcons says that last year in December last year presented his concerns in December last year. The company presented an unchanged evaluation to the Environmental Impact Assessment System (SEI), which directs the Environmental Assessment Services in Chile, a few days later. “They already announced that they wouldn’t change,” he said.
Bright future?
Two dbh and Chile astronomical society (sojas) emphasize that they do not want to cancel the project completely. Instead, both teams require that they will lead to at least 50 km from the Inna observatories. Chiara Mazzucchelli, President Sochias believes that both projects coexist. “Chile has the ability to be a leader in the world, both in green energy and astronomy,” he noted. So far, the AES IESEs relocation requests have been within a renewable energy center, Chile and “Trustees) in the solidity of the Environmental Impact Assessment system of Chile,” Mazzucchelli says.
The path to the coexistence is the way forward, says Bernardites Guachalla, Chilean doctoral candidate at Stanford University. It is a lot of things to win a lot from the development of green energy, but it should not come with the cost of Chilean astrophysics, which has been incredibly beneficial with the global research organizations that have the cultivation of international telescopes. “From a science perspective (Chile won) a lot,” he stated that the astronomers of the nation have access to the “best laboratories of the world”. In fact, in recent decades, a PhD number of astronomy. Students in 1990. In 2005 in 2005, Chile has risen by the Astronomy paper references a year, considering its size and gross domestic product. Outside astronomy, taking the greatest land-based telescopes in engineering careers, astronomy tourism and greater international investment and prestige.
As part of the SEI approval process, the INNA project must now make a review period, which includes public comments. SOCHIAS, ESO and Local Chilean astronomers are being encouraged by members of the community, both astronomy and outside, to speak on behalf of observatories.
“The fact is that this is not a random place for us, for astronomy,” Barcon says. “It’s unique. There’s nothing better on the ground, where we’re putting the biggest telescope. So it will disappear forever if they do this.”
Organizers and citizens have had until the beginning of April to give opinion on the project six. After that, the future of the project and perhaps, the future of global astronomy based on the ground.
