Porti & ambiente — le notizie raccolte

Nel settore della pulizia, tradizionalmente legata all’uso di detergenti e detersivi chimici, si è aperta una nuova fase che unisce sostenibilità ambientale, risparmio e organizzazione del lavoro. Il capofila è Tonino Bernardini, 37 anni, di Porto Torres, esperto in pianificazione ambientale e fondatore della startup “iClean”. Il progetto di Bernardini, propone un modello alternativo basato sull’utilizzo dell’acqua ozonizzata per le operazioni di pulizia e sanificazione. Come funziona La startup ha creato un dispositivo, applicabile in qualsiasi locale, che trasforma l’acqua corrente in acqua ozonizzata, utilizzabile immediatamente per diverse applicazioni professionali o domestiche. «Il dispositivo prende l’ossigeno dall’aria, all’interno dell’apparecchio viene rotta la molecola dell’ossigeno e diventa così ozono, questo ozono viene iniettato all’interno dell’acqua. Successivamente si riempie il flaconcino e così abbiamo la nostra acqua a forte potere sgrassante e igienizzante» spiega il portotorrese. La scienza dietro iClean «Il principio su cui si fonda il progetto è semplice solo in apparenza – continua Bernardini -. Si sfruttano le proprietà ossidanti dell’ozono, generato direttamente in loco, per ottenere una soluzione in grado di pulire e ridurre la carica microbica, senza però ricorrere ai tradizionali prodotti chimici. In questo modo si riduce l’impatto ambientale, e si contengono i costi operativi. Tra l’altro con una maggiore tutela della salute di chi opera in ristoranti, Rsa, supermercati o semplicemente in casa». Gli studi Secondo l’azienda, l’efficacia del sistema è stata verificata attraverso test di laboratorio condotti secondo standard europei. Il meccanismo, spiegano, è legato alla capacità dell'ozono di ossidare le membrane cellulari dei microrganismi, inattivandoli. «Tuttavia è importante sottolineare che il dispositivo non è classificato come “medico-chirurgico”, poiché l’ozono viene generato sul momento e non commercializzato come prodotto già confezionato» spiegano. L’ambiente L’aspetto centrale della proposta riguarda la sostenibilità ambientale. L’eliminazione o la drastica riduzione dei detergenti comporta una diminuzione significativa degli imballaggi in plastica e delle emissioni legate alla logistica. A questo si aggiunge un minore impatto delle acque reflue, che non contengono residui chimici. La nascita del progetto L’apparecchio non è nato da una singola invenzione, esistono infatti sul mercato altri meccanismi simili, ma da una lavoro di selezione e ricerca che semplificano l’operatività del meccanismo. «Il punto di partenza è stato individuare un cambiamento nel mercato – precisa Bernardini -. Il modello basato su detergenti chimici infatti, ha già iniziato a mostrare i suoi limiti, sia in termini ambientali che operativi. Da lì abbiamo costruito una soluzione che garantisce anche la possibilità di intervenire sullo sviluppo e sull’aggiornamento del prodotto stesso, e la scelta è ricaduta su una produzione europea» conclude.

The laundry closet is the room you forget to design until you’re standing in front of it with a basket on your hip. Tucked behind doors, squeezed under stairs, hidden in a hallway, it’s the smallest square footage in the house with the biggest opportunity for a quiet style win. These 28 laundry closet ideas prove that a few smart choices can turn a chore corner into the prettiest little nook in the home. A laundry closet has to work hard. It needs to hide the appliances when company comes, hold the detergent and dryer sheets, give you a spot to fold a stack of towels, and somehow still look intentional when the doors swing open. The best ones lean into that challenge with built-in cabinetry, soft wallpaper, woven baskets, and finishes that feel pulled from the rest of the house instead of treated like an afterthought. What unites every closet on this list is a sense of calm. Whether it leans rustic with terracotta tile and barn doors, or polished with quartz counters and patterned backsplash, each one feels considered. Scroll through these 28 laundry closet ideas to find the one that fits your footprint, your aesthetic, and the way you actually do laundry. Table of Contents The terracotta floor is doing all the talking here, and it absolutely should be. Those scalloped, hand-shaped tiles bring a Spanish villa warmth to what would otherwise be a standard stacked washer and dryer setup, instantly turning a utilitarian closet into something that feels collected and lived-in. Soft greige cabinetry, a decorative vent screen overhead, and paneled French doors give the whole moment a little Old World romance. The styling stays restrained, just a canvas laundry cart on wheels and tucked-away shelving for storage. It’s a look that feels equally at home in a coastal cottage or a hillside hacienda, proof that the right floor can carry an entire space. Perfect for anyone who wants their laundry closet to feel less like a closet and more like a postcard. This one is a love letter to soft farmhouse styling done right. Stacked white Whirlpool appliances sit beside a butcher block counter and open shelves trimmed with black iron brackets, giving the closet that warm, slightly rustic feel without tipping into kitsch. The muted sage green walls bring everything together with a quiet, grounding tone. What sells the look is the layered storage. Woven baskets up top, white laundry baskets stacked in custom cubbies below, and a sweet little Laundry Co. sign perched on the counter for personality. It’s organized but not sterile, styled but still functional, the kind of setup that makes folding clothes feel a little less like a chore. Cane insert doors are the unsung hero of small-space styling, and this laundry closet shows exactly why. The woven panels add texture and breathability without sacrificing the clean architectural lines of the trim, turning the doors themselves into a design feature you’d actually leave open. Behind them, a stacked LG set sits beside a built-in hanging rod with a herringbone tile backsplash that brings unexpected polish. The styling is timeless and a little preppy, framed black and white photos, an antique urn on a side table, art books stacked just so. Refined laundry detergents on a small tray nod to the everyday function while keeping the aesthetic intact. It’s a look that proves a laundry closet can hold its own next to a beautifully decorated room. There’s something so satisfying about a deep sage green wall paired with warm wood and stainless steel. This LG setup gets a custom touch with a butcher block counter built right over the appliances, instantly creating a folding station and a styling surface in one move. Greige cabinetry flanking the open shelf gives it that built-in custom feel without the full custom price tag. The styling stays grounded with a canvas Steele laundry tote, a small fiddle leaf fig, and a pair of framed laundry symbol prints that double as wall art. The whole composition feels grown-up and intentional, a smart choice for anyone working with stainless appliances who wants to soften the metal with warmer tones around it. Bold wallpaper in a laundry closet is one of those moves that feels brave on paper and looks brilliant in person. This black and white botanical print transforms a utilitarian space into a moody little library moment, complete with a brass sconce, stacked colorful books, and a small ceramic planter for character. The stainless LG WashTower keeps things sleek and modern against all that pattern. Open shelves above hold neat stacks of woven and gridded baskets, while the lower shelf tucks in extra storage for hampers. It’s a closet that doesn’t apologize for being small, it leans into the cozy intimacy and adds personality at every turn. Ideal for anyone who believes a small space deserves big design swings. Subway tile, a built-in hanging bar, and a green vintage bread box make this laundry closet feel like a perfect mix of old and new. The exposed wood hangers create that boutique laundry room feel, while open cubbies hold detergent bottles, paper towels, and a small brass lamp that adds a surprising bit of warmth. It’s a setup designed for actually using, not just looking at. A potted magnolia branch in a glass jar brings the whole vignette to life, softening the white tile and gray countertop with something organic and unexpected. The slatted blue closet door on the left gives it that vintage cottage feel, like something you’d find in a charming pre-war apartment. A great inspiration for anyone wanting laundry to feel a little more nostalgic. This one is what happens when a designer gets their hands on a laundry closet. Crisp white shaker cabinets stretch all the way to the ceiling for maximum hidden storage, while a wood butcher block counter spans the Electrolux washer and dryer to create a clean, useful folding surface. The real showstopper is the marbled, almost Rorschach-style wallpaper that runs as a backsplash, adding artistry to a space most people would tile and forget. Styling stays elevated with sage canisters, woven baskets, brass-accented soap dispensers, and a small floral arrangement that softens the room. Every element feels chosen, not collected, the kind of thoughtful editing that makes a closet feel like a luxury hotel laundry room. A beautiful template for anyone planning a custom build. Pale blue and white floral wallpaper turns this laundry closet into something that feels like a coastal cottage retreat. The pattern wraps the entire alcove, instantly making the stainless LG appliances feel less industrial and more part of a styled vignette. White shaker cabinets and open shelves hold neatly folded white towels and glass apothecary jars filled with cotton balls and clothespins. A woven basket on the quartz counter holds a small hydrangea arrangement and a rolled white towel, the kind of finishing touch that makes the whole space feel like a magazine moment. It’s bright, airy, and quietly feminine, perfect for anyone craving a soft, romantic take on functional design. Sometimes the best design move is restraint, and this all-white laundry closet is a master class in keeping things clean. A stacked LG washer and dryer sits to the right while built-in white shelving on the left holds three large woven baskets, a small countertop nook, and just enough open shelving for detergent and a tiny potted plant. Nothing is fighting for attention. The crystal doorknobs on the closet doors are the smallest detail and somehow the most charming, a subtle vintage nod that elevates the whole space. It’s a setup that works for almost any home, modern or traditional, and proves that sometimes the chicest choice is to simply edit everything down to its essentials. A whitewashed barn door on industrial track hardware makes this laundry closet feel more like an architectural feature than a utility space. Slide it open and you find a beautifully built-in setup, soft greige cabinetry, a small glass tile backsplash with that perfect coastal shimmer, and a stack of neatly folded white towels styled in the open niche above the appliances. The stainless Electrolux duo grounds the whole space with a polished, modern energy. Shiplap walls and dark wood floors give the surrounding hallway that classic Southern coastal feel, the kind of home where every detail looks effortless even though nothing actually is. It’s a beautiful reminder that the door itself can be just as much a design statement as anything behind it. Ideal for open-concept homes where the laundry closet sits in plain sight. A frosted glass sliding door is the kind of detail that makes a kitchen-adjacent laundry closet feel intentional from every angle. Slide it open and a clever corner build reveals itself, with stacked appliances on one side and a wraparound shelving system that turns the awkward corner into a fully usable pantry-meets-laundry zone. The dark hardware on the door grounds the soft ivory cabinetry and gives the space a touch of contemporary edge. Inside, the styling stays practical with woven baskets, slim storage bins, and small wood crates breaking up the all-white shelving. It’s the perfect solution for an open-plan kitchen where the laundry needs to disappear when guests arrive but stay completely accessible the rest of the time. A smart pick for anyone short on dedicated laundry square footage. This one reads like a piece of architecture more than a laundry setup. A floor-to-ceiling wall of warm wood veneer cabinetry houses a side-by-side Fisher & Paykel washer and dryer, with seamless cabinet pulls and integrated detailing that make the appliances feel like they belong inside a custom millwork composition. Below each unit, two open cubbies hold oversized woven baskets that catch laundry as it comes out. To the left, a sleek wet bar style sink and tonal tile backsplash continue the modern, minimalist energy with brushed bronze tapware adding a quiet metallic note. The whole space feels calm, considered, and effortlessly Australian-coastal. Ideal for anyone planning a custom build who wants their laundry to feel like the chicest room in the house. A whitewashed chevron barn door changes everything about how you experience a basement laundry. Sliding it open reveals a bright, beautifully styled space with white shaker cabinetry, a butcher block folding counter, and crisp subway tile that bounces light around what would otherwise be a darker corner of the home. The Samsung washer and dryer in soft white blend right into the airy, neutral palette. Just outside the laundry, a built-in nook with floating shelves holds woven baskets, vintage pottery, and small framed prints, turning the surrounding hallway into a little gallery moment. It’s a reminder that even a basement laundry can feel as styled as the main floor with the right door, the right floor, and a few well-chosen accents. European laundry rooms have this way of making the most of every centimeter, and this one is a perfect study in tonal restraint. The entire wall is built out in a soft, monochromatic greige with stacked appliances tucked into a tall niche and open cubbies above for stacked towels, detergents, and a wire basket of folded linens. Even the slim cordless vacuum gets its own dedicated slot. To the left, a built-in ironing station and matching shelving keep the workflow seamless from washing to pressing to putting away. The all-greige palette feels modern, soothing, and slightly hotel-like, the kind of space that turns laundry into a quiet, controlled ritual. A great inspiration for anyone planning a small but highly functional utility room. This one nails that warm industrial farmhouse vibe with stained wood counters wrapping the room in a deep, walnut-toned L shape. The counter sits over the GE washer and dryer for folding space, then extends along the side wall above three white laundry baskets tucked neatly into open shelving below. A black and white striped runner pulls the whole color story together. A marbled black and white canvas, a metal “Wash & Dry” sign, and a sweet little laundry schedule print add personality without crowding the room. It’s the kind of laundry that feels designed by someone who actually does laundry, equal parts beautiful and built to handle a real family’s load. Perfect for anyone who wants warmth and function in equal measure. Deep navy walls and a graphic black and white star tile floor turn this laundry room into a moody little jewel box. The patterned cement-look tile is the showstopper, anchoring the whole space and giving the eye somewhere magnetic to land the moment you walk in. A stacked stainless washer and dryer rises tall against the navy backdrop, almost like a polished sculpture. White cabinetry along the side wall keeps everything balanced and bright, while a folding wall-mounted drying rack tucks neatly into the corner near the window. Natural light pours in and softens all that bold color, proving that even a small laundry can absolutely handle a dramatic palette when the daylight cooperates. Sometimes one warm wood detail is all a space needs to feel completely styled. This otherwise crisp white laundry alcove gets its entire personality from a single floating oak cubby mounted on the wall, holding a woven seagrass belly basket and a small potted plant. The contrast between the warm wood and the bright white walls feels intentional, almost gallery-like. Below, two side-by-side AEG and Bosch front loaders sit beneath a clean stone counter with a generous rattan basket parked on top, ready for the next load. It’s a master class in editing, no extra signage, no bottles on display, just three or four beautifully chosen objects letting the architecture speak. Perfect for the minimalist who still wants warmth. Rich navy cabinetry, a stainless Samsung stack, and a soft blue and white mosaic tile floor combine here for one of the most polished laundry rooms on the list. The cabinetry wraps the whole room in deep, saturated color, while a bank of glossy white subway tile behind the sink keeps everything feeling fresh and balanced. Brushed nickel hardware and a slim apron sink complete the elegant look. Open floating shelves in pale wood hold a few simple ceramics and a small fern, the only hint of softness against all that crisp navy lacquer. It’s a layered, designer-level take on the laundry room that would feel just as at home in a coastal cottage as it would in a city brownstone. A beautiful direction for anyone leaning into bold color. This is what happens when a laundry closet decides to have a personality. A sweet geometric wallpaper in dusty pastels of pink, mint, peach, and lavender wraps the entire back wall and continues onto the ceiling, instantly turning a small alcove into something playful and unexpected. Soft white cabinetry and floating shelves keep the wallpaper as the clear focal point. A champagne-finish front loader washer adds a subtle metallic shimmer that picks up on the warm tones in the wallpaper, while neat stacks of white towels and a few pretty Nellie’s tins keep the styling clean. It’s whimsical without tipping into childlike, the perfect inspiration for anyone wanting their laundry closet to feel a little joyful every time they open the door. This is the laundry room that almost everyone pins and most actually want to live with. A side-by-side dark front loader set sits beneath a warm butcher block counter that stretches the full length of the wall, with white shaker cabinetry and a tall pantry-style cabinet on the right offering serious hidden storage. White subway tile keeps the backsplash clean and bright. Open floating shelves above hold woven storage cubes, neatly folded white towels, glass jars of clothespins, and a few sweet little signs that nod to home and family. It’s the timeless, livable laundry, classic enough to never feel dated, styled enough to feel intentional, and functional enough to actually use every single day. The forever choice. This is what happens when a laundry closet gets the bespoke British cabinetry treatment. Deep navy painted doors with brushed brass pulls open to reveal a warm oak-lined interior that holds two stacked Miele appliances, a side column of open shelving for detergents and supplies, and a tucked-away spot for the vacuum. The contrast between the moody exterior and the glowing wood interior is everything. A single woven basket sits on the top shelf, the only soft element needed in such a structured, tailored space. Closed up, it reads as a beautiful piece of furniture in the room. Open, it functions like a fully kitted utility cupboard. A perfect inspiration for anyone planning a freestanding cabinet build in a kitchen or hallway where built-ins aren’t an option. This one is pure quiet glamour. A walk-in laundry tucked inside a dressing room features a side-by-side washer and dryer with gilded gold drum interiors, the kind of detail you didn’t know you needed until you saw it glowing under the under-cabinet lights. Glossy ivory cabinetry with slim brass pulls wraps the room, and warm LED strip lighting makes the marble counter look almost backlit. Stacks of fluffy white towels, woven seagrass baskets, and a small olive plant in a stone vessel keep the styling soft against all that polish. The hanging rod and stacked linen shelves on the right side double the closet’s function, blending laundry with dressing in one seamless flow. A dream setup for anyone designing a primary suite from scratch. Tonal dressing belongs in laundry design too, and this beige-on-beige room is the proof. Warm wood cabinetry with hidden push-to-open doors holds stacked appliances, while a small interior hanging rod gives air-dry items a moment to breathe before they get put away. The whole room reads more like a high-end European wardrobe than a utility space. To the right, a pull-out vertical drying rack tucks neatly into its own slim cabinet, the kind of clever space-saving detail that makes a small footprint work harder. Marble paneling behind the wood softens the palette, and warm LED lighting underlines every shelf for that hotel-suite glow. A great look for anyone who wants their laundry to feel like part of the architecture. This one has serious old-world charm. Tall paneled bifold doors in a soft dove blue conceal a laundry tucked right into a hallway wall, and when they fold open they reveal a sweet little setup with a single front loader, an interior hanging rail with linen shirts ready to be hung, and a generous wicker basket on the wood folding shelf. The framed laundry guide print is a charming little detail. Pastel blue stacking baskets line the left side for sorting, and a few practical bottles sit tucked at the bottom out of sight. The whole closet feels straight out of a restored period home, where every inch was thoughtfully reclaimed without sacrificing the architecture. A beautiful direction for anyone restoring an older property. This one is the cream and brass dream. Beadboard-detailed cream cabinetry runs the entire room, with a stacked white Whirlpool washer and dryer tucked into a tall column on the left and an L-shape of marble counter wrapping around to a sweet vintage-style window above the sink. Aged brass knobs and pulls bring just enough warmth to keep all that pale cream from feeling too cold. A built-in hanging rail with wood hangers sits ready for clothes straight out of the dryer, and a few fresh tulips in a small vase add a quiet pop of pink. The whole composition feels coastal grandmother in the most modern, refined way. A beautiful template for anyone leaning into that warm, layered, traditional aesthetic. A French blue cabinet pairing with a graphic blue and cream patterned tile floor turns this laundry room into something with serious personality. The shaker style upper cabinets stretch wide across the back wall, balanced by a built-in pull-down drying rod tucked under one of them. Brass hardware throughout adds warmth and that little jewelry-box detail that elevates the whole room. Below, a quartz counter spans the side-by-side Electrolux washer and dryer, while a separate utility sink with a matte black faucet anchors the corner. The flower-shaped tile pattern is the real conversation piece, the kind of choice that makes laundry day feel almost cheerful. A beautiful pick for anyone who wants pattern without committing to wallpaper. This one is small-space minimalism done absolutely right. Crisp white cabinetry frames a stacked Electrolux washer and dryer, while a single warm oak upper cabinet floats above a small utility sink to break up the all-white palette. The white penny tile backsplash adds just enough texture to feel custom without competing with anything else in the room. A colorful striped hand towel draped over the counter and a few curated ceramic vessels keep the styling intentional and warm. Every single element earns its place, no extra clutter, no wasted square inch. A perfect inspiration for compact apartment laundries where the goal is to make a tiny footprint feel calm, useful, and quietly beautiful. The genius of this all-white setup is hiding in plain sight. A floor-to-ceiling wall of cabinetry holds two stacked Siemens appliances right in the center, with tall storage cabinets above and the cleverest detail of all below, two integrated pull-out hamper drawers with cutout handles that double as ventilation. Pop them open and dirty laundry goes straight in, no separate basket needed. To the right, a pull-out folding shelf holds a white laundry basket and slides away when not in use, the kind of disappearing functionality that makes a small space feel limitless. The light wood cutout pulls add the only warmth in an otherwise crisp white composition. Brilliant inspiration for anyone designing custom built-ins around their machines.

El presidente Fernando Clavijo (d) y el comisario Apostolos Tzitzikostas./ Pablo Garrigós / Efe Salvador Lachica Elpresidente de Canarias, Fernando Clavijo, logró este martes el compromiso delcomisario europeo de Transporte y Turismo, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, de respaldar la petición del Archipiélago para mantener más allá de 2030 la exención delsistema europeo de comercio de emisiones (ETS), a las conexiones aéreas y marítimas del Archipiélago. El apoyo no es todavía una decisión definitiva, pero sí un paso relevante en una negociación que Canarias considera "vital". Tzitzikostas se comprometió, según trasladó Clavijo, a defender junto alcomisario Raffaele Fittolos intereses de las regiones ultraperiféricas (RUP). La última palabra, sin embargo, estará en manos de lavicepresidenta ejecutiva Teresa Ribera-con la que Clavijo se reúne este miércoles- y delcomisario de Clima, Wopke Hoekstra. "Los canarios necesitamos el avión para ir al médico, para estudiar, para trabajar y para prácticamente todo", subrayó el presidente tras el encuentro, en el que entregó a Tzitzikostas un informe del Ejecutivo regional en el que se calcula que aplicación plena de los ETS elevaría entre dos y tres euros el precio medio de cada billete interinsular y entre 15 y 20 euros los vuelos con la Península. Las delegaciones de Canarias y la UE durante la reunión./ Pablo Garrigós / Efe A ese impacto directo se sumaría el encarecimiento de las mercancías, una amenaza especialmente sensible en un territorio donde el 90% del consumo llega por vía marítima y en plena crisis provocada por el conflicto en bélico de Oriente Medio y el cierre del estrecho de Ormuz Por ello, Clavijo insiste en que la transición ecológica europea no puede aplicarse de forma uniforme a territorios que parten de una desventaja geográfica permanente, reconocida en el artículo 349 del Tratado de la Unión Europea. La Comisión Europea revisa ahora las directivas del sistema de comercio de emisiones para el transporte aéreo y marítimo. Las conclusiones se conocerán antes del verano y serán determinantes para saber si las regiones ultraperiféricas mantienen la excepción más allá de 2030. La medida está garantizada hasta esa fecha después de que Canarias y el Estado lograran en 2023 dejar fuera del pago por emisiones de CO2 las conexiones entre islas. Pasajeros esperando para facturar en un aeropuerto de Canarias./ José Pérez Curbelo El debate se produce en plena ofensiva comunitaria para acelerar la neutralidad climática. Bruselas aspira a reducir un 55% las emisiones en 2030 y un 90% en 2040, dentro del Pacto Verde Europeo. Clavijo aseguró que Canarias comparte los objetivos de descarbonización, pero reclamó que esa transición no fracture la cohesión social ni castigue a quienes no disponen de alternativas reales. "Las RUP deben contribuir a los objetivos climáticos, pero sin sacrificar su economía ni su conectividad", defendió. Noticias relacionadas El presidente también puso sobre la mesa otro frente de preocupación: el impacto de los ETS en la competitividad de los puertos canarios. Aunque las rutas con la Península están exentas, las conexiones marítimas con otros países europeos no lo están. Los barcos entre Canarias y Europa deben asumir el 100% de sus emisiones, frente al 50% aplicable a rutas con terceros países. Esa diferencia, alertó Clavijo, está provocando desvíos de flota hacia puertos africanos y amenaza la posición estratégica del Archipiélago. Teresa Ribera, vicepresidentaejecutiva de la Comisión Europea./ Europa Press Suscríbete para seguir leyendo

D avanti alla costa atlantica della Galizia esiste un’isola sottile, battuta dal vento, dove il mare ruggisce contro scogliere scure e pochi metri dopo diventa una tavolozza di turchesi su sabbia chiarissima. L’Isola di Ons (Illa de Ons) è uno di quei posti che costringono a rallentare: niente auto, nessuna città alle spalle, solo un piccolo villaggio di pescatori, sentieri sterrati, un faro del 1926 che continua a guidare le navi e una manciata di spiagge dove l’acqua è gelida quanto è limpida. Preferisci ascoltare il riassunto audio? Nell'articolo È uno degli angoli più puri del Parco Nazionale Marittimo-Terrestre delle Isole Atlantiche della Galizia, un arcipelago protetto dove accessi e numeri di visitatori sono regolati per salvaguardare un ecosistema marino ricchissimo. L’anima dell’Isola di Ons: villaggi, fari e scogliere estreme Isola di Ons L’Isola di Ons è lunga circa 5,5–6 chilometri e larga poco più di uno. Vista dall’alto sembra una lama di roccia all’ingresso della Ría de Pontevedra, con un versante rivolto al continente fatto di spiagge chiare e un lato esposto all’oceano dove dominano falesie, burroni e onde lunghe che arrivano da lontano. Il punto abitato principale è O Curro, minuscolo nucleo che si incontra appena si sbarca al molo. Qui si concentrano le case basse intonacate, gli orti difesi da muretti di pietra per riparare le piante dal vento salato, una piccola chiesa, qualche ristorante di cucina locale e le reti da pesca stese ad asciugare. Il villaggio dà subito la misura di cosa sia questa isola: una comunità ridotta, legata al mare, distribuita in pochi nuclei rurali e abituata a convivere con un ambiente severo. SCOPRI ANCHE: COSA VEDERE IN GALIZIA Salendo verso l’interno appare il Faro de Ons, costruito nel 1926 poco sotto l’Alto do Cucorno, una delle quote più alte dell’isola (circa 128 metri). Il faro si trova poco più in basso, a circa 119 metri sul livello del mare, ed è ancora attivo e presidiato, fatto sempre più raro lungo la costa galiziana. Dal piazzale, nelle giornate limpide, lo sguardo abbraccia la costa delle Rías Baixas, la lunga spiaggia di A Lanzada, la Ría de Arousa, l’isola di Sálvora e, in condizioni davvero favorevoli, anche le lontane Isole Cíes. La luce cambia velocemente: un momento l’oceano è piombo, quello dopo un tappeto blu intenso segnato da scie di traghetti e pescherecci. Proseguendo sul lato più esposto all’oceano si entra nella parte più “aspra” di Ons. Il Mirador de Fedorentos è una terrazza naturale sospesa sopra il mare, affacciata sull’isolotto di Onza, distaccato da Ons da poche centinaia di metri d’acqua. Onza è piccola, compatta, quasi senza segni evidenti di presenza umana, e contribuisce a dare alla scena un’aria di isolamento raro nella costa europea così frequentata. Poco lontano, l’Buraco do Inferno è uno degli elementi più forti del paesaggio: una grande cavità verticale, di circa 80 metri di profondità, scavata nella roccia dalla forza costante dell’Atlantico. Quando il mare è agitato, l’aria compressa nelle fenditure genera un boato che ha alimentato leggende di anime, urla e presenze: un tratto tipicamente galiziano, dove il confine tra realtà e racconti popolari è volutamente sfumato. Nella parte settentrionale, la Punta do Centolo è un promontorio che guarda verso la Ría de Arousa. Tra aprile e fine agosto l’accesso viene limitato per proteggere la nidificazione dell’avifauna marina, che qui trova riparo sulle scogliere: tra gli uccelli più facili da osservare ci sono i marangoni dal ciuffo e i gabbiani reali, abituati a solcare correnti d’aria fortissime. Sempre a nord si incontrano le rovine del “Castelo”, una fortificazione del XIX secolo che controllava l’ingresso della ría. Restano muri e basamenti, ma la posizione – a picco sul mare, lontana dal villaggio – racconta bene quanto questo tratto di costa fosse strategico per il controllo del traffico marittimo. Tra rocce erose dal tempo si nasconde infine la Laxe dos Cregos, una sepoltura antropomorfa scavata nella pietra. È piccola nelle dimensioni, ma concentrata di storie e ipotesi: c’è chi la lega a riti antichi, chi ai primi insediamenti religiosi, chi a tradizioni funerarie locali. A prescindere dalle interpretazioni, aggiunge una nota archeologica a un paesaggio già denso di significati naturali e marittimi. Sotto la superficie dell’acqua, Ons continua: le correnti fredde e ossigenate che arrivano dal largo nutrono foreste di alghe, molluschi, polpi, granchi e persino cetacei di passaggio. È uno degli ecosistemi marini più ricchi dell’intera penisola iberica, uno dei motivi principali per cui l’arcipelago è stato inserito nel parco nazionale. Sulla terraferma, tra erica, ginestra e altre specie adattate a vento e salsedine, spicca la Retama de Ons, pianta endemica diventata simbolo dell’isola. SCOPRI ANCHE: LE SPIAGGE PIÙ BELLE DELLA GALIZIA Spiagge bianche e acqua gelida: come si vive il mare a Ons spiagge di Ons Il lato orientale dell’isola, quello rivolto verso la costa della Galizia, è una sequenza di spiagge chiare, acqua trasparente e fondali bassi. L’effetto visivo ricorda destinazioni molto più meridionali, ma la temperatura dell’Atlantico rimette subito le cose in chiaro: qui il bagno è rinvigorente, anche in piena estate. La Playa de Melide occupa spesso il primo posto nelle classifiche personali di chi visita l’isola. È una lingua di sabbia bianca finissima, lunga circa 300 metri, circondata da vegetazione bassa e riparata dalle correnti più forti. Il mare qui passa dal verde chiaro al turchese e poi al blu carico appena il fondale si fa più profondo. È spiaggia Bandiera Blu ed è nota anche per la sua vocazione naturista, con un’atmosfera discreta e rilassata. Non ha servizi strutturati, quindi conviene arrivare attrezzati con acqua e tutto il necessario per qualche ora di sosta. Più vicina al molo, la Playa de As Dornas deve il suo nome alle “dornas”, le piccole barche tradizionali dei pescatori galiziani. La sabbia qui è più granulosa, intervallata da formazioni rocciose che affiorano creando pozze e punti di ombra naturali. La posizione, accanto alla zona di imbarco dei traghetti, la rende una delle spiagge più facilmente accessibili, ideale per chi ha poche ore a disposizione o viaggia con bambini. Appena oltre O Curro si apre Area dos Cans, un litorale sabbioso ampio, raggiungibile attraverso una passerella in legno che scende verso il mare. Le acque sono generalmente tranquille, lo scenario è aperto verso la ría e la vicinanza al villaggio la rende una delle spiagge più frequentate dell’isola. È perfetta per spezzare la giornata tra un sentiero e l’altro, oppure per chi preferisce restare vicino ai servizi. Spingendosi lungo la costa verso sud si incontra la Playa do Canexol, una distesa chiara incorniciata da rocce, con vista sulla Ría de Pontevedra. Nei dintorni sono stati rinvenuti resti romani, segno che questo lembo di costa era conosciuto e sfruttato già in epoca antica. Da qui la prospettiva sulla terraferma cambia: si distingue la costa, le spiagge continentali e, nelle giornate terse, la linea degli horreos e delle case dei villaggi sulla ría. Ancora più riservata, la Playa de Pereiró è una piccola cala con sabbia bianca, rocce sommerse e acqua che, nelle ore centrali del giorno, sembra vetro. Guardando verso l’orizzonte si riconosce Aldán e, dietro, la costa galiziana. È un buon rifugio per chi vuole allontanarsi dalle zone più frequentate senza affrontare cammini troppo lunghi. Su tutte queste spiagge vale la stessa regola: portare protezione solare potente, cappello e strati leggeri contro il vento. Il sole di Galizia, quando esce, è forte, ma l’aria fresca inganna facilmente; il risultato sono scottature inattese su pelle ancora fredda per l’acqua gelida. Trekking e percorsi sull’isola: quattro itinerari e un faro come bussola Ons si esplora soprattutto a piedi. Non ci sono auto a noleggio né strade trafficate: solo sentieri segnalati che collegano villaggi, spiagge, fari e punti panoramici. Ufficialmente esistono quattro itinerari circolari, tutti con partenza e arrivo nei pressi del porto, identificati da colori diversi e con difficoltà contenute, ma è comunque fondamentale indossare scarpe chiuse e portare acqua. Il percorso del Faro de Ons, contrassegnato dal colore giallo, è uno dei più accessibili: circa 4 chilometri di lunghezza con un dislivello vicino ai 120 metri. Sale progressivamente dal porto fino al faro, attraversando il villaggio e poi paesaggi via via più aperti. È il tragitto perfetto per chi vuole orientarsi sulla geografia dell’isola, osservare da vicino la vegetazione resistente alla salsedine e guadagnare un bel colpo d’occhio sull’Atlantico senza camminare per ore. Più lungo è il sentiero del Nord, identificato dal blu, che si sviluppa per circa 8 chilometri lungo il versante settentrionale. Costeggia le scogliere, alternando saliscendi dolci, punti panoramici affacciati sul mare aperto e zone dove il terreno si avvicina pericolosamente al bordo della falesia. Questo itinerario conduce fino alla Playa de Melide e permette di vedere alcune delle porzioni più selvagge dell’isola, con la costa frastagliata e gli uccelli marini che planano sulle correnti. Il percorso del Sud, contrassegnato in verde, è lungo più o meno 6 chilometri e segue la parte meridionale dell’isola. È il tracciato che porta al Mirador de Fedorentos e al Buraco do Inferno, due dei luoghi più scenografici di Ons. Il sentiero passa attraverso zone di macchia bassa e tratti più aperti dove il vento si sente con forza, fino a raggiungere il margine della scogliera. Da qui la vista include Onza e, in lontananza, le Isole Cíes. Il quarto percorso ufficiale è il sentiero del Castelo, segnalato in rosso. È il più corto: circa 1 chilometro con un dislivello minimo, perfetto anche per chi ha poche ore. Parte dalla zona della spiaggia di As Dornas e sale verso il punto dove sorgono le rovine della fortificazione ottocentesca. Oltre all’interesse storico, questo tratto regala una prospettiva diversa sulla ría e sui traghetti che entrano ed escono da Pontevedra. Un aspetto importante è la regolamentazione dei flussi: il numero di visitatori giornalieri è limitato e, tra 15 maggio e 15 settembre e durante la Settimana Santa, è obbligatorio richiedere un’autorizzazione alla Xunta de Galicia tramite il portale ufficiale della comunità autonoma, prima di acquistare il biglietto del traghetto. Il permesso è legato a una data precisa, può coprire fino a un certo numero di persone per richiesta ed è previsto un margine entro cui è possibile annullare. Chi non vuole occuparsi in autonomia di permessi e biglietti può appoggiarsi a escursioni organizzate con partenza da diverse località delle Rías Baixas: in genere includono trasferimento marittimo, gestione dell’autorizzazione e, talvolta, visita guidata sull’isola. Come arrivare, quando andare e cosa assaggiare Ons L’Isola di Ons appartiene alla Galizia, nella provincia di Pontevedra, e si trova circa 4 chilometri al largo all’ingresso della ría omonima. L’unico modo per raggiungerla è via mare, con i traghetti autorizzati che operano nella stagione più calda. Durante il periodo di maggior afflusso partono collegamenti da Bueu, Sanxenxo, Portonovo, Combarro e, in alcune date, anche da Vigo. La traversata dura in media 45 minuti, a seconda del porto di partenza e delle condizioni del mare. Per arrivare alla zona delle Rías Baixas dall’Italia, in genere si vola su Santiago de Compostela o Vigo, per poi proseguire verso la costa di Pontevedra in auto a noleggio o con i bus regionali. Da lì si sceglie il porto di imbarco in base all’itinerario di viaggio: Combarro è perfetto se si vuole abbinare alla gita in barca la visita a un borgo di pescatori con horreos affacciati sul mare; Sanxenxo e Portonovo sono interessanti per chi programma qualche giorno di mare sulla terraferma; Bueu è una base comoda per esplorare l’area più tranquilla della ría. Il periodo più gettonato per visitare Ons corrisponde ovviamente all’estate, quando i collegamenti sono più frequenti e le giornate lunghe consentono di sfruttare al massimo la luce. Anche la primavera inoltrata e l’inizio dell’autunno possono essere periodi interessanti: il rischio di giornate ventilate e cambi repentini di meteo resta, ma l’isola è meno affollata e la vegetazione è in una fase molto vivace. Per quanto riguarda la durata della visita, molti viaggiatori scelgono la gita in giornata: partenza la mattina, rientro nel tardo pomeriggio, con tempo sufficiente per un sentiero ad anello, un pranzo rilassato e qualche ora in spiaggia. Chi desidera entrare davvero nel ritmo lento dell’isola può valutare di fermarsi una notte nelle strutture presenti, ma le disponibilità sono ridotte e conviene informarsi con anticipo. Sul fronte gastronomico, l’Isola di Ons è famosa in particolare per il suo polpo, protagonista della cucina locale. La versione più iconica è il polpo “in calderada”, cotto insieme alle patate e insaporito con paprika, olio, aglio e cipolla. Il risultato è un piatto caldo, denso, dove il profumo del mare si combina al gusto deciso del condimento. Nei ristoranti del villaggio si trovano anche altri piatti di pesce e frutti di mare legati alla tradizione galiziana, che sulla terraferma si ritrovano in località come Combarro o Bueu.

Poseidon is probably still getting used to our growth from wooden boats to enormous cruise ships. Imagine his shock when he sees electric boats casually pulling up to recharge right in the middle of his abode, thanks to a new offshore charging system. Engineers at the Norwegian research organization, The Foundation for Industrial and Technical Research (Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning;SINTEF) have created a “plug and play” charging system that allows electric vessels to charge at sea via a magnetic field. This inductive technology replaces traditional physical plugs that are highly susceptible to corrosion and wear from saltwater and algae. The charging system is the latest breakthrough in theOcean Charger project, a collaborative initiative led by shipbuilding company VARD and a consortium of green-energy maritime partners. Launched in 2023, the project set out to develop, simulate, and test a full-scale charging solution that enables ships to charge directly at offshore wind farms. The goal was to ensure the continued availability of emission-free vessel operations without ships needing to return to shore for power. It took thousands of years for humanity to go from sails and human-powered ships to steam engines, roughly a century for steam propulsion to give way to diesel-powered vessels, and now – after another century of diesel dominance – the maritime industry is progressively adopting electric and hybrid-electric vessels. Various challenges have hindered this adoption, one of the biggest being how to recharge onboard batteries. Charging infrastructure is typically located onshore, limiting how far electric vessels can travel before needing to return to port for recharging. Engineers proposed what seemed like a simple but ingenious solution: build charging stations out at sea where vessels could recharge without making long return journeys to shore, with turbines powering the charging stations for truly autonomous power. However, offshore charging also introduced a new set of problems. You see, conventional charging plugs and electrical connectors are designed for relatively stable, dry environments. These charging systems rely on rigid physical connectors that must maintain direct metal-to-metal contact for electricity to flow efficiently. On land, this is relatively straightforward. A car remains stationary while a plug locks firmly into place. At sea, however, the environment becomes dramatically more hostile for this kind of connection. Waves, currents, and wind constantly shift both the vessel and the charging platform. The resulting misalignments, even small ones, can place enormous mechanical stress on charging connectors, potentially damaging pins, loosening contacts, or interrupting power transfer altogether. There is also the issue of electrical arcing that can occur if contacts momentarily separate while current is flowing. The seawater adds another layer of issues. Salt water is highly conductive and extremely corrosive to exposed metals. Over time, salt deposits and oxidation will almost inevitably degrade charging contacts, increasing electrical resistance, reducing charging efficiency, and raising the risk of overheating or electrical failure. In addition to these factors, there's also water intrusion to contend with. Conventional plugs are not designed to tolerate repeated exposure to water. Moisture entering the connector can trigger short circuits and cause insulation breakdown. To overcome these problems, the researchers developed contactless marine charging systems based oninductive power transfer. Instead of relying on exposed metal connectors, these systems transfer electricity wirelessly through magnetic fields. Think wireless phone charging, but on a far larger scale. A transmitting coil inside the charging platform generates a rapidly oscillating magnetic field using alternating current. When a receiving coil on board the vessel is positioned within this field, the changing magnetic flux induces an electric current in the receiving coil through electromagnetic induction, without contact. Both coils are safely encapsulated in a waterproof material that is also salt- and algae-resistant. “We’ve tested a possible solution that works almost like a regular electrical contact. But we can avoid all the problems because we transfer the power inductively by encapsulating the plug itself in materials that can withstand just about anything,” says Giuseppe Guidi, a senior research scientist at SINTEF. This approach seems to address most of the problems associated with charging at sea. First, it eliminates exposed electrical contacts entirely. Because no direct metal-to-metal connection is required, corrosion becomes far less problematic. Small movements between the vessel and the charging platform are also more tolerable, since power can still transfer even if the alignment is not perfectly rigid. Furthermore, with no exposed live contacts, the risk of electrical arcing is dramatically reduced. Lastly, the system's sealed nature helps protect critical components from seawater intrusion and moisture damage. On paper, the technology is deceptively simple. However, the process involves advanced engineering precision. According to the researchers, achieving the induction-based charging required far more than simply scaling up wireless phone charging technology. The system also depends on specially engineered cables, intelligent control software that minimizes energy loss, and electromagnetic components capable of handling extremely high power levels in rough offshore environments. Another amazing aspect of the broader charging-at-sea project is the local production of energy using wind turbines. When winds are low, continuous charging is ensured through intermediate storage solutions, creating a fully functional “Offshore Substation (OSS),” according to the researchers. “The OSS hub functions as an electrical hub out at sea, collecting electricity from the wind turbines and making it possible to charge vessels directly, without traveling to shore,” says Vards Håvard Vollset Lien, head of the Ocean Charger project. The long-term ambition of the project is to populate coastlines, starting with the Norwegian coastline, with networks of these substations, where compatible vessels can stop and charge. “Perhaps one day it will become a common sight for electric service vessels and coastal vessels to charge their batteries at sea and out in the shipping lane,” Vollset Lien says. The project is truly significant for the maritime industry, especially for service vessels used in oil and gas, offshore electrical infrastructure, and marine law enforcement. Source:Norwegian SciTech News

Vulture’s critics are tracking the highlights of this year in film, from blockbuster adaptations to low-budget originals and everything in between. Check back each month for the latest additions. Movies are organized chronologically by their U.S. theatrical-premiere date with the most recent at the top. Blue Heronis an autobiographical work pulled directly out of writer-director Sophy Romvari’s childhood, from the period when her parents, both Hungarian immigrants, moved their family of six into a new house on Vancouver Island. But what it really feels like is a séance, a way of using cinema not just to put the past onscreen but to commune with it — to interrogate it for information about her troubled eldest brother, Jeremy (Edik Beddoes), that her younger self was unable to grasp at the time. It’s a tender but devastating work that exists in the netherworld between documentary and fiction, where the innate artificiality of re-creating something that actually happened allows a filmmaker to get to a greater truth.—Alison Willmore Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei’s film isn’t a remake of the infamous 1978 exploitation landmarkFaces of Deathso much as it’s a clever, nastily-contemporary riff on what the original represents — not just the blurring of what’s real and what’s not but the urge to rubberneck at gore and treat the ability to be unshaken by it as a point of pride. Barbie Ferreira plays a content moderator who starts fixating on whether a series of videos that have been flagged for examination could actually contain real murders, an obsession that puts her on a collision course with a serial killer (Dacre Montgomery) who is just as compulsively online. The result is an uncommonly entertaining horror film centered on a character with personal reasons to want the impossible: for everyone to stop approaching atrocity as spectacle at a time when we’ve turned everything into content.—A.W. Based on a wisp of an indie game in which the player navigates a series of train-station passages that form a seemingly closed circuit, director Genki Kawamura’s thriller may very well be the greatest video-game adaptation to date — though that bar is awfully low. There’s a genuine elegance to the way that Kawamura incorporates the theme of parental anxiety into his source material’s simple but eerie premise, making the movie feel like it’s building on the essence of the gameplay rather than being trapped by so many Möbius-strip passageways. As a protagonist credited only as the Lost Man, star Kazunari Ninomiya is often left alone onscreen to guide us through the industrial purgatory in which he finds himself while offering us insight into the inner terrain of his character — a man who has been living in an emotional limbo long before he gets stuck in a literal one.—A.W. One of those compact pictures Steven Soderbergh tosses out every year with the seeming effortlessness of someone making a stack of pancakes,The Christophersis a deceptively simple two-hander starring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel as artists at different ends of the celebrity spectrum. It’s a sly dramedy that sends the struggling Lori Butler (Coel) into the orbit of Julian Sklar (McKellen), a legend of the ’60s and ’70s living off the fumes of his fame after not having been able to paint for decades. But whileThe Christophersinitially seems like it will be a kind of lo-fi heist film, as Julian and Lori engage in what is essentially a prolonged duel, feinting and jabbing across generations, offering up deceptions and hard-fought moments of vulnerability, it reveals itself to instead be a pair of complex portraits, a diptych of subjects who feel hopelessly wounded by an art world from which they nevertheless want respect.—A.W. In his directorial debut, Matthew Shear stars as a bumbling law-school dropout named Sam who’s stuck in an anxiety-ridden stasis after the loss of his paralegal job. But his film, a bittersweet indie about two people whose lives don’t intersect so much as they drift together, is really a showcase for Amanda Peet, in her first big screen role in years as Dianne, an actor whose once-promising career and marriage to David (Alessandro Nivola), a musician with a case of arrested development, seem to have both stalled out. When Sam ends up working as a nanny and caring for the couple’s three daughters, he finds himself falling in love with his employer, who’s both aware of how comfortable her financial situation is and how unhappy and lost she’s been feeling. Peet is vulnerable and brittle and radiant as a woman who’s not sure how to ask for help because she isn’t convinced that she needs it.—A.W. Radu Jude has made two of my favorite movies of this millennium, and whileKontinental ’25isn’t up to the level of either 2021’sBad Luck Banging or Loony Pornor 2023’sDo Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, it still features plenty of the Romanian filmmaker’s signature touches, from a caustic sense of humor to a keen eye for the impossibility of trying to be a good person while also trying not to get ground to bits in the gears of global capitalism. Eszter Tompa plays Orsolya, a Hungarian woman who works as a bailiff in the Transylvanian city of Cluj and who has to oversee the eviction of a squatter in the basement of a recently sold apartment building that goes horribly wrong. Jude knows how to twist the knife but can also be surprisingly generous about the absurdity of just trying to get by, and Orsolya’s subsequent spinout brings the film to some unexpectedly farcical places.—A.W. “I killed an Arab.” These are the first words uttered by Meursault (Benjamin Voisin), the protagonist of François Ozon’sThe Stranger, and already we can sense that this adaptation of Albert Camus’s classic 1942 novel has been given at least one new angle. By foregrounding the moment, Ozon makes it clear he understands the thorny nature of the material he’s adapting.The Strangeris about an almost totally passive and unreflective character, a man whose sole moment of agency appears to be the random act of violence that condemns him to the guillotine. Through subtle shifts in his storytelling, Ozon brings forth another dimension to Meursault’s actions. At the same time, this is a thoroughly faithful adaptation of the novel. Shooting in gorgeous black and white, Ozon’s approach is tactile, sensuous. The camera focuses on the everyday textures and sensations of Meursault’s life to relay the character’s direct experiences, as Camus did with his prose. Most important, the director captures Meursault’ssilence. Meursault may be out of place in society’s eyes — a cold, troubling figure seemingly unaware of our most basic rituals — but he also reflects the fundamental silence of the world.—Bilge Ebiri What’s beguiling about Christian Petzold’s latest, a small film that nevertheless snags at the heart, are the ways in which it depicts the comforts of the pretense its characters all implicitly agree to. Unhappy Berlin music student Laura (played by Petzold’s current leading lady of choice, Paula Beer), who survives a car accident that claims the life of her boyfriend, acts as if there’s nothing strange about her request to stay with the woman who found her at the crash site. Her new caretaker, Betty (Barbara Auer), meanwhile, behaves as though she doesn’t have incredibly personal reasons to dote over this total stranger. The fairy-tale qualities of the setup disguise some very real pain on the part of characters who, we gradually realize, are engaged in a kind of spontaneous, therapeutic exercise they can’t acknowledge.—A.W. The Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s first narrative feature in seven years is a mesmerizing and Kafkaesque story of a young lawyer seeking justice in 1937 at the height of Stalin’s brutal purges. Although he meets roadblocks all along the way, the protagonist’s determination and patience seem to serve him well. First, he manages to meet with the man he’s seeking to defend: an elderly Bolshevik who was jailed under false pretenses and who shows him his wounds from the torture he has endured in captivity. Then our hero travels to Moscow to speak directly to the country’s chief prosecutor, to plead with him to open an investigation into the prisoner’s treatment. What distinguishes this film is not its overall narrative trajectory (which reads more like a bitter cosmic joke than anything else) but rather how Loznitsa subtly colors in this character’s journey through the halls of power. In the upside-down universe of Stalin’s Russia, this young idealist’s diligence and persistence may well be his greatest failings. He thinks he has agency; he assumes he’s moving up the chain of command; he believes that by going above everyone’s heads, he’s outflanking the criminals who have sullied Soviet justice. In fact, he’s unwittingly enacting a charade, each step on his path more meaningless than the last.—B.E. Petra Volpe’s film was the Swiss submission to the Oscars this year but didn’t end up getting a nomination. That said, it’s a candidate for a potentially more lucrative award: the title of a film most likely to scratch the itch forThePittfans jonesing for more medical-procedural goodness. Set over the course of an evening at a Swiss hospital that’s simultaneously understaffed and much nicer-looking than any American equivalent,Late Shiftfollows a nurse named Floria Lind (Leonie Benesch) who arrives at work to find the ward nearly full and one of her colleagues out sick. She’s put in an impossible position, constantly being confronted with new fires to put out and unable to give the attention and time she’d like to patients who are desperate and afraid. Even when it feels a little blunt in its characterizations,Late Shiftkeeps you teetering on the edge as you wait for its heroine to slip up or to break down.—A.W. It’s a little surprising how well Andy Weir’s books — which can feel as though they’re roughly 70 percent math equations — have transformed into crowd-pleasers, first withThe Martianand now withProject Hail Mary, but that’s the power of a good adaptation team. WithProject Hail Mary, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and screenwriter Drew Goddard recognized that the best way to make this story work for the big screen was to essentially make it aStar Warsmovie, in which a lovable creature and a charming rogue team up to save the world. That approach is brought to vibrant life through Ryan Gosling andpuppeteer James Ortiz, who infuse unlikely astronaut Ryland Grace and brilliant alien Rocky with real optimism, affection, and sincerity as they work to figure out why their respective suns are being consumed by microorganisms and how they can each make it home. The joy of this movie isn’t in theendless wisecrackingbut in the practical effects and physicality driving Gosling’s and Ortiz’s performances: the wacky way the former throws his body around his spaceship when he wakes up in 2032 with no memory of how he got there, the subtle intonations in the latter’s voice as Rocky works through various applications of the wordamaze.Gosling and Ortiz are a complementary pair, and their chemistry adds toProject Hail Marya socially-minded belief in the power of borderless, open-armed collaboration that Weirmight deny exists in his workbut that Lord, Miller, and Goddard rightly understand as the point of any sci-fi story worth telling.—Roxana Hadadi Aside from the terrible podcast-recording practices on display, Ian Tuason’s feature debut is a low-budget Canadian horror movie that does a lot with a little. It leans all the way into its claustrophobic scenario, which finds podcaster Evy (Nina Kiri), who has been spending her days alone in her childhood home with her dying mother, slowly splintering apart as the boredom and stress of her situation combine with the eeriness of a set of mysterious audio files that may very well be haunted. The film’s best trick, one that Tuason and cinematographer Graham Beasley make frequent use of, is arranging shots full of negative space so that an inky void swims behind Evy as she sits with noise-canceling headphones on, oblivious to what might be going on around her — an approach that makes the increasingly strange soundscapes she’s taking in all the more unsettling.—A.W. The Italian city of Naples, with Mt. Vesuvius forever looming across its bay, has always existed in the shadow of apocalypse. At least that’s the mood director Gianfranco Rosi evokes in his mesmerizing documentary. The apocalypse he presents is not just the legendary one that destroyed the ancient Roman town of the film’s title but an ongoing one that encompasses the calamities of our modern era as well as the rejuvenation that sometimes accompanies destruction. It begins with Pliny the Younger’s contemporaneous description of the devastation of Pompeii and Herculaneum but intercuts the images of ruin with glimpses of the modern metropolis. This is an area of regular seismic activity as well as wildfires. It has also been plundered for centuries by grave robbers and smugglers. Rosi’s high-contrast images carve shadows across his subjects’ faces and bodies, rendering them not dissimilar to the timeless statues and friezes among which they roam. The film’s observational qualities serve a broader quest for profundity and beauty. This is not a fly-on-the-wall documentary; it’s a Caravaggio-on-the-wall documentary.—B.E. Everyone says they want movies for adults; here you go.Crime 101is a perfectly entertaining, competently made heist picture of the kind that this industry used to churn out with some regularity and now can’t be bothered to create outside ofFast & Furiousbranding. No one inCrime 101is tasked by a secret government agency with saving the world, and there aren’t even that many wild chases through the streets of Los Angeles. What Bart Layton’s film has instead is deep internal characterwork from a note-perfect ensemble led by Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, and Mark Ruffalo, each of whom represents a different thread ofCrime 101’s interwoven story: a jewel thief (Hemsworth) growing tired of his loner tendencies, an insurance broker (Berry) who has been passed over for a promotion one too many times, and a detective (Ruffalo) convinced that the recent spate of jewel thefts all over Los Angeles are the work of one guy. Over 140 well-paced minutes,Crime 101drops us into each of the trio’s lives, draws them together, and shows us how they’re threatened by a horny-for-violence young thief played by Barry Keoghan. It all leads up to a satisfying, western-influenced climax whose genre beats are elevated by the cast’s performances, particularly Ruffalo’s head-tilted riff on Columbo’s “Just one more thing” questioning.—R.H. You don’t need to be familiar with Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol’s web series turned TV showNirvanna the Band the Showto enjoyits big-screen continuation. I’d even argue that the movie is better as a stand-alone discovery that introduces you to Johnson and McCarrol’s fictionalized versions of themselves while also blowing up their show’s basic premise via aBack to the Future–style plot. The whole delightful caper, which finds Johnson and McCarrol struggling to get back from the year 2008 after unintentionally time-traveling with the help of a discontinued Canadian soft drink, is powered by the pair’s DIY ingenuity, willingness to potentially get arrested, and, most important, a back catalogue of footage they’ve been shooting for over a decade and a half. It’s an absurd Toronto adventure that has the slightest touch ofBoyhood-esque poignancy.—A.W. Emerald Fennell’s adaptation ofWuthering Heightshas the tunnel-vision horniness and girlish aesthetic sensibility of a high-school freshman who has been assigned to read Brontë in class while tearing through a pile of explicit bodice rippers under the covers at home. Asking if it’s faithful to the classic 1847 version is like asking if a tween crush on a boy-band member is true love — it’s beside the point and doesn’t do justice to the uniquely hectic feelings of its own feverish experience. Jacob Elordi broods and flashes a gold tooth, Margot Robbie flounces around in a red vinyl skirt, snailslustily slimetheir way across windowpanes, and everything works out perfectly terribly for all thesemagnificently awful characters.—A.W. Harry Lighton’ssalty-sweet directorial debut is, chain collars and ass-eating aside, surprisingly mild at its core. It’s more of a journey of self-discovery than a sexual one — like fellow BDSM-inflected A24 releaseBabygirl, a story of someone slowly learning to articulate what it is they want. WhileHarry Melling’s guileless Colin, who’s constantly in awe to find himself involved with the strapping blond biker dom who approaches him at the pub one day, provides the film with its melancholy heart, Alexander Skarsgård provides the humor as his love interest, Ray. Half the joke ishis appearance— this absurdly hot man who looks like a Tom of Finland sketch that has sprung to life and decided to live in suburban London — but as punch lines go, it’s a good one.—A.W. Rachel McAdams is such a scream in this Sam Raimi throwback that she almost makes you forget her character would make a lot more sense played by, say, anOffice-era Phyllis Smith. Still, the comedic thriller about a resentful office drone stranded on a Pacific Island with her smug new nepo-baby boss (Dylan O’Brien) works because McAdams is unerringly funny and incredibly game. Whether she’s hurtling herself into a scene in which she gets drenched in blood and mucus while hunting a boar or convincing you that her character is absolutely capable of crafting a restaurant-worthy sashimi platter out of items she has foraged along the shore, she’s the perfect partner for Raimi’s combo of gross-out and grimly amusing.—A.W. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s droll directorial debut begins as a comedy about ghosts possessing appliances at an electronics factory and ends as a meditation on becoming a collaborator working against the interests of your own kind. At its center is Nat (Davika Hoorne), the late wife of the factory owner’s son, who isn’t ready to let death stop her from being with her husband and starting the family they always talked about. The film’s bright color palette and deadpan tone — the scene of Nat seducing her spouse in her new form as a vacuum cleaner is surreally hilarious — belie how pointed it eventually becomes. Nat, as desperate in the afterlife as she was in life to prove herself worthy, starts helping eradicate other ghosts in return for security for herself, becoming as much a figure of complicity as tragedy.—A.W. Although it is, in many ways, a more conventional film than last year’s28 Years Later, Nia DaCosta’s follow-up to Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s deranged zombie sequel is also a more psychologically acute effort. Much of it follows a bizarre gang of blond-wigged, tracksuited, acrobatic zombie killers, all answering to the name of Jimmy and led by a psychopath calling himself Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell). Their exploits are intercut with the efforts of the nutty hermit Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) as he tries to find ways to commune with the undead and maybe even reverse the “rage virus” that has destroyed humanity. Kelson spends a lot of his time dosing and chilling with the enormous andbrutal “alpha” zombie Samson. All these little paths into the characters’ inner lives start to cohere into a vision of human cruelty. DaCosta works in these ideas subtly even thoughThe Bone Templeitself is not what one might call subtle. In fact, it’s downright loony tunes: Its scenes of crazed flamboyance fit into the film’s overall sense of a civilization stuck in time, of people mentally frozen at the moment of collapse. The only way to transcend and survive a dying world, it suggests, is to cut loose and find ways to be yourself.—B.E. Cherien Dabis’s film is a moral fable in the guise of an epic family drama. Stretching across 145 minutes, the picture opens with a spirited Palestinian teen, Noor (Muhammad Abed Elrahman), as he’s shot during a West Bank street protest sometime in 1988. Then the film flashes back to 1948, and we find ourselves in the life of a well-to-do Palestinian family in Jaffa. As the movie proceeds, we see the fate of this family in 1978, and 1988, and beyond. There’s a closed-off style to the drama that reflects the cloistered nature of the characters. As war and displacement consume them, their isolation grows. And there’s power in the sheer spectacle of time: Charismatic young men become old and embittered; once-vivacious children grow up to be fathers themselves, who are then harassed and tormented by Israeli soldiers. These historical episodes demonstrate the never-ending cycles of humiliation Palestinians have had to suffer. The first half of the movie, with its grim journey through the decades, turns out to be a prologue to the story of the teenage Noor’s fate. Even then, the film has more surprising moves left in it.All That’s Left of Youisn’t really looking for empathy. In its own uneven but artful way, it shows us the alienation that survival sometimes requires. By the end, I was destroyed.—B.E. Gus Van Sant’s latest sticks generally to the facts in its portrayal of Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), an aspiring businessman who one day in February 1977 walked into the offices of Meridian Mortgage and kidnapped his broker, Dick Hall (Dacre Montgomery), wrapping a wire attached to a shotgun around the man’s neck. Tony claimed the mortgage company screwed him over after he took out loans to develop a once-neglected piece of real estate where he intended to build a shopping center. In other words, this gun-wielding kidnapper was a man who believed in the profit motive and the idea that hard work and ingenuity would ultimately pay off. Tony has fully bought into the dream, and Skarsgård plays him with excitable, boyish humor, almost as if the whole thing were a game. He’s just a child, momentarily rebelling against the world that made him. Something similar occurs with Dick, who is an executive in a business run by his father (Al Pacino) and is pretty powerless himself. Dick is also a child of a system that doesn’t love him back, only in this case it’s his literal family. Both he and Tony have been sacrificed to the almighty dollar. There’s a powerful civilizational metaphor in this film’s central image of two broken capitalists locked in a murderous standoff.—B.E.

BRINDISI - La sala della Colonna di Palazzo Granafei Nervegna ha ospitato questa mattina, martedì 5 maggio 2026, un incontro di studenti e docenti partecipanti al progetto di mobilità internazionale Erasmus+ “Luga – Let Us Green Again”, sviluppato dall’Istituto comprensivo “Centro” Brindisi-Tuturano in collaborazione con l’istituto capofila Escola Secundária “António Nobre” di Porto e l’istituto Küçükçekmece Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi di Istanbul. Le delegazioni portoghese e turca e quella brindisina partecipante al progetto, sono impegnate nel promuovere e sensibilizzare i giovani studenti europei al rispetto del Pianeta, al miglioramento degli stili di vita in un'ottica sostenibile e alla condivisione di buone pratiche ambientali. Questa mattina, dunque, hanno incontrato l’assessore all’Ambiente, Livia Antonucci, e l’assessore alla Pubblica istruzione, Maria Lucia Vantaggiato. L’assessore Antonucci, in particolare, ha ricordato come la società, che si occupa della raccolta dei rifiuti, abbia creato in un suo stabile un “angolo del riuso, teso a sensibilizzare la cittadinanza – ha aggiunto – a un cambio di passo e di cultura, dopo anni in cui la parola d’ordine era quella dell’usa e getta. Ma non ci accontentiamo – ha concluso -, perché proprio ieri, nella scuola dell’infanzia di via Modigliani, al quartiere Sant’Elia, sono state messe a dimora 13 piccole querce”. Sulla necessaria sinergia tra politiche ambientali e politiche educative ha quindi riflettuto l’assessore Vantaggiato, che ha ringraziato gli studenti “per il racconto delle vostre esperienze – ha detto -. Viaggiare, visitare luoghi ed osservare cosa si fa altrove per rendere una città più vivibile è parte importante delle esperienze di viaggio. Una buona pratica, che cattura l’attenzione, serve a far riflettere un amministratore e magari ad adattarla alle esigenze di un’altra collettività”. Ecco perché gli studenti portoghesi e turchi, dopo l’incontro, hanno proseguito nelle loro visite in Brindisi, tese a conoscere le peculiarità del patrimonio culturale, storico e ambientale e le iniziative in tema di sostenibilità. Rimani aggiornato sulle notizie dalla tua provincia iscrivendoti al nostro canale whatsapp:clicca qui Seguici gratuitamente anche sul canale Facebook:https://m.me/j/Abampv2kioahdYYR/ BrindisiReport è anche su Mobile!Scarical’App per rimanere sempre aggiornato. © Riproduzione riservata

An official press releaseyesterdayconfirmed a $140 million investment to power AI data centers at sea. The funding goes to Pathanlassa — a renewable energy and ocean technology company — and was raised in a Series B financing led by avid investor and former PayPal CEO and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, alongside several other investors. The Portland-based start-up said it would use the funding to complete its pilot manufacturing facility in Oregon for its Ocean-3 series nodes — an autonomous platform that will house and power data centers for AI inference computing at sea, using electricity generated from ocean waves. “There are three sources of energy on the planet with tens of terawatts of new capacity potential: solar, nuclear, and the open ocean,” said Garth Sheldon-Coulson, Co-Founder and CEO of Panthalassa. “We’ve built a technology platform that operates in the planet’s most energy-dense wave regions, far from shore, and turns that resource into reliable, clean power. We’re now ready to build factories, deploy fleets, and provide a sustainable new source of energy for humanity.” Panthalassa’s solution is an autonomous, fully integrated system called a node that houses both AI infrastructure and power-generating hardware in a single offshore unit. Each lollipop-shaped node consists of a buoyant spherical head connected to a long, submerged vertical tube and structural frame. As ocean waves pass, the node bobs up and down, but, crucially, the surrounding water moves only in small orbital paths. This relative motion between the structure and the water column induces oscillations within the tube, effectively driving seawater up and down through the system. That oscillating flow is channeled into the spherical chamber through a high-pressure jet, where it is converted into usable mechanical energy. The water then passes through internal turbines, generating electricity before recirculating back into the tube to repeat the cycle. The system is designed as a closed hydraulic loop that continuously extracts energy from wave-induced motion. As the ocean never stops moving, the system generates power around the clock. That power runs the onboard payloads. For truly autonomous operation, the system transmits data back to shore via satellite, eliminating the need for tethering. Another noteworthy benefit of the system is that the surrounding ocean provides free supercooling, solving one of the biggest engineering challenges in land-based data centers. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Each node also incorporates propulsion and station-keeping systems, allowing it to maintain optimal positioning or operate as part of a distributed offshore network, effectively coupling renewable energy generation directly with modular AI compute at sea. After decades of research and development, and several preceding versions, Panthalassa says it plans to “deploy its Ocean-3 pilot node series in the northern Pacific Ocean, demonstrating AI inference capabilities and refining its manufacturing process in preparation for commercial deployments in 2027.” AI’s electricity demand is rising much faster than conventional power infrastructure can keep up with. In many regions, grid operators are already struggling to keep up, while communities are increasingly pushing back against new builds over concerns about land use, noise, and energy diversion. In response, companies are scrambling for alternatives, and the solutions are becoming increasingly unconventional. “The future demands more compute than we can imagine,” said Peter Thiel. “Extra-terrestrial solutions are no longer science fiction. Panthalassa has opened the ocean frontier.” Panthalassa’s wave-powered offshore compute nodes are the latest in a growing line of radical bets on how to power AI sustainably. Last month, we reported thatMeta had signed a partnershipwith an energy start-up to beam solar energy from space to enable continuous, 24/7 power. Other startups are exploring the idea of moving data centers entirely off-planet. These are just a few of the many other initiatives to meet AI’s seemingly impossible electricity demands. FollowTom's Hardware on Google News, oradd us as a preferred source, to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. Etiido Uko is a news contributor for Tom's Hardware covering the latest updates in big tech and the PC industry. He is a mechanical engineer and senior technical writer with over nine years of experience in documentation and reporting. He is deeply passionate about all things engineering and technology, and is an expert in gadgets, manufacturing, robotics, automotive, and aerospace.

Bermuda-incorporated offshore drilling contractor Valaris has secured new rig assignments and contract extensions in Brazil, Brunei, Indonesia, and the UK and Dutch sectors of the North Sea. Valaris has won new contracts and extensions, with an associated backlog of approximately $560 million, after issuing itsprevious fleet status reporton February 17, 2026. The contract backlog excludes lump sum payments such as mobilization fees and capital reimbursements. The rig owner claims that its contract backlog increased to around $4.9 billion from about $4.7 billion as of February 17, 2026. Among its latest floater contract awards, the company revealed a 1,064-day extension for theValaris DS-4drillship withPetrobrasoffshoreBrazil. This extension is expected to start in November 2027 in direct continuation of the existing program and will add approximately $447 million to the contract backlog. The day rate for the remainder of the existing contract has been adjusted, reducing contract backlog from April 1, 2026, to November 2027 by around $21 million. Anton Dibowitz, Valaris’ President and Chief Executive Officer, commented:“We delivered safe and reliable operations for our customers, achieving revenue efficiency of 98% in the first quarter. We expect a meaningful improvement in our financial results through 2026, supported by strong project delivery and operational execution, with the DS-12 having successfully returned to operations ahead of schedule and three additional drillships from our active fleet on track to restart later this year. “We continue to execute our commercial strategy, adding over $500 million of new contract backlog since reporting our fourth quarter results, including a multi-year extension for Valaris DS-4 offshore Brazil that secures continuous work for the rig into 2030. As a result, total backlog now stands at approximately $4.9 billion, our highest level in nearly a decade, further supporting future earnings and cash flow.” Valaris’ jack-up contract awards entail a two-year contract extension for theValaris 115jack-up rig withBrunei Shell Petroleum, which is expected to begin in April 2027 in direct continuation of the existing program, adding around $78 million to contracted revenue backlog. The company’s one-well contract for theValaris 106jack-up withMedco EnergioffshoreIndonesiacommenced in April 2026 and has a minimum duration of 45 days. The estimated total contract value is approximately $5.4 million. The firm’s 123-day contract extension for theValaris 122jack-up withAdurain theUK North Seato provide accommodation support services began in May 2026, in direct continuation of the existing program, bringing approximately $14 million to contracted revenue backlog. The rig owner’s two-well contract for the Valaris 122 rig withIneosin the UK North Sea is anticipated to kick off in September 2026 and has an estimated duration of 162 days. With the operating day rate of $115,000, the contract also includes options with an estimated total duration of 825 days for work in theUK and Danish North Sea. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Transocean, Noble, COSL, Seadrill, and Valaris pinpointed as rig backlog powerhouses Valaris’ 123-day contract extension for theValaris 123jack-up withTAQAin the Dutch North Sea for accommodation support services commenced in May 2026 in direct continuation of the existing program. The day rate is $80,000. The company’s 74-day contract extension for theValaris 248jack-up rig withGE Vernovain the UK North Sea to provide accommodation support services for an offshore wind project begun in April 2026, in direct continuation of the existing program, and will add over $5 million to contracted revenue backlog. All Valaris andARO Drilling, a 50/50 joint venture between the rig owner and Aramco in Saudi Arabia, units operating in theMiddle Eastremain under contract. The completion of planned shipyard projects for theValaris 116andValaris250rigs got delayed, with bareboat charters for the rigs now expected to resume in the third quarter of 2026. Dibowitz continued:“We remain positive on the outlook for offshore drilling, supported by improving market fundamentals. While the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East have created near-term uncertainty, they reinforce the strategic importance of energy security and the need for sustained upstream investment to help ensure reliable and affordable energy supply.” This content is available after accepting the cookies. Nine rigs from Valaris-Aramco JV’s fleet embrace ALTAVE’s AI monitoring solution The operations forValaris 110have been suspended since early March 2026, and the rig remains contracted to NOC offshore Qatar. On the other hand, theValaris DPS-1semi-submersible was sold for recycling in April 2026. Valaris is pursuingan all-stock transactionwith Transocean that is expected to deliver meaningful value to its shareholders. Dibowitz concluded:“During the quarter, we were pleased to announce an all-stock transaction with Transocean that will benefit our shareholders, customers and employees. “The transaction is expected to deliver meaningful value to Valaris shareholders through anticipated synergies and the opportunity to participate in the future upside potential of a combined company that is capable of operating any rig at any water depth in any offshore environment around the world.” This content is available after accepting the cookies. Transocean’s play for Valaris forging $17 billion offshore drilling giant with 73 rigs The firm alsoentered into a strategic collaboration agreementwith Petronas and Halliburton to support the development of Suriname’s offshore assets. Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!

Even if Valve isn't keen to let slipwhen we can expect the Steam Machineto launch, it certainly seems to be stockpiling the hardware for it. The Vergereportsthat over the past few days, Valve has shipped over 45 tons of unspecified "Game Consoles" into the US, following around 90 tons of previous orders since February. The Steam Machine has beendelayedseveral times due to global memory shortages, but when it does launch, Valve will want lots of stock on hand. Even if the price is high, the Steam Machine islikely to be popular, at least around launch. To that end, perennial Valve watcher Brad Lynch has beenposting X updates on Valve shipmentsand warehousing over the past few weeks, noting that it has received over 90 tons of "Game Console" units from China. The Verge further reports another 45 tons landed between April 30 and May 1. With Valve claiming the Steam Machine weighs around 5.7 pounds, this latest 45-ton delivery would equate to fewer than 20,000 Steam Machines, especially if you factor in packaging and any accessories like controllers and power cables that shipped from China too. It is possible that these are merely shipments of Steam Decks designed to shore up Valve's spotty supply, and that we're not quite ready for a Steam Machine release just yet. Indeed, Valve would probably need more for a general release, especially in the US. It could also be that these are Steam Frame headsets and that hardware is set to release first. But it's the Steam Machine that is the big Valve release for this year. More gamers are interested in a small, capable gaming PC that can double as a home theater PC in the living room than in an expensive, if advanced, mixed-reality headset. But with the Steam Controllerselling out almost immediatelyafter launch, Valve could be feeling confident that the Steam Machine will do the same.

Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) has disclosed the go-ahead for the production individualization agreements (AIPs) for shared reservoirs in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin. Brazilian state-owned energy giant Petrobras was notified by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels on April 30, 2026, regarding the approval of the production individualization agreements for theBerbigão shared reservoir in Zone BVE-ITP/RJS-656 (Sururu) and the Zone BVE-ITD/RJS-697 of Berbigão in the Santos Basin. The Sururu and Berbigão shared reservoirs encompass concession contractBM-S-11A, operated by Petrobras (42.5%), in partnership with Shell (25%), TotalEnergies (22.5%), and Petrogal (10%), alongside the transfer of rights contract, operated by Petrobras, which holds a 100% interest. The AIP effective date is May 1, 2026. The agreement sets forth the interests of each party and the rules governing the joint execution of oil and natural gas development and production operations in the shared reservoir. Both of these fields have been producing since 2019 through theFPSO P-68, with a capacity of 150,000 barrels of oil per day. An AIP is executed in situations when reservoirs extend beyond the areas covered by concessions or contracts, in accordance with ANP regulations. As a result of the process of individualizing production from the reservoirs, the financial settlement between the expenses incurred and the revenues related to volumes produced up to the effective date of the AIP will be subject to negotiation between the companies. Petrobras is working on expanding its oil and gas production arsenal, as illustrated by thestart-upof the eighth floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at theBúzios fieldearlier than planned. Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!

TRIESTE – Da maggio 2026 uno Scania 40 R equipaggiato con tecnologia FCEV – Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle – circola sulle strade italiane. L’iniziativa è frutto dell’intesa con Gruber Logistics, nell’ambito del progetto europeo ZEFES (Zero Emission Freight EcoSystem) dedicato alla decarbonizzazione del trasporto merci. Il veicolo è costruito sulla piattaforma elettrica BEV di Scania, integrata con quattro serbatoi di idrogeno da 56 kg complessivi a 700 bar e un sistema a celle a combustibile da 300 kW. L’idrogeno viene convertito direttamente in elettricità tramite fuel cell, con autonomia fino a 1.000 km, di cui 690 a idrogeno e 310 a batteria. I tempi di rifornimento sono di circa 20 minuti, a fronte delle ore necessarie alla ricarica dei veicoli elettrici puri. Il mezzo trasporta merci per clienti leader dei rispettivi settori, come Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Verallia Italia, ABB e Birra Forst. «Questo è un passo importante per velocizzare il deployment di nuove tecnologie e comprendere fin da subito quali sono le difficoltà potenziali che un operatore logistico deve affrontare attraverso il loro utilizzo», ha dichiarato Martin Gruber, CEO di Gruber Logistics. I terminal portuali figurano tra i nodi con maggiore pressione alla decarbonizzazione del trasporto terrestre, per effetto delle normative europee – FuelEU Maritime in testa – e della prossimità con aree urbane. Il progetto ZEFES prevede test di rifornimento, dimostrazioni e partecipazione a eventi di settore. Il primo appuntamento è il Transpotec 2026 a Verona, dove Scania e Gruber Logistics presenteranno l’iniziativa il 14 maggio. Il mezzo sarà presente anche all’Innovation Summit di Gruber Logistics a Bolzano: il 27 maggio al Safety Park e il 28 maggio al NOI Techpark

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition prioritizes battery life and a lightweight design over port variety and outright speed. Featherweight chassis Beautiful OLED display Potent speakers Impressive battery life Limited port selection, including no headphone jack -CPU performance is lacking versus the competition Why you can trust Tom's HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is back to fight for its space on our list of thebest laptops.. It’s been roughly a year and a half since we last tested aYoga Slim 7i Aura Edition, and a lot has happened during that time. For starters, our particular review unit features a 14-inch POLED panel instead of a 15.3-inch screen, and it features Intel’s new Core Ultra 3 Series “Panther Lake” processors. Intel’s Aura Edition initiative is aimed at fielding laptops that are thin, lightweight, and deliver superior battery life. The Slim 7i impresses on all three fronts, while delivering a crisp display and premium build quality. The Yoga Slim 7i made a lasting impression before I even laid eyes on it. The shipping box that contained the review unit was incredibly light; so light, in fact, that I thought maybe the laptop had gone “missing” on its way to my house. However, once I pulled the Slim 7i out of the box, I was taken aback by its featherweight design, weighing just 2.15 pounds. For comparison, the 13.6-inch MacBook Air weighs slightly more at 2.7 pounds. Part of the reason for the extremely lightweight design is the use of a magnesium alloy in the chassis (which Lenovo says is designed and tested to MIL-SSTD-810H standards), finished in “Seashell,” which is basically off-white. In addition, the laptop is only 0.55 inches thick, which further contributes to the feeling of litheness. The centerpiece of the Yoga Slim 7i is a 14-inch, 2880 x 1800 POLED touch display with a glossy finish. To protect the precious POLED panel, Lenovo covers it in Gorilla Glass 3. Unlike themost recent Yoga Slim 7i we tested, the 2026 model drops the HDMI 2.1 port and adds another Thunderbolt 4 in its place. As a result, the Yoga Slim 7i now has three Thunderbolt 4 ports: two on the left side and one on the right. All three ports support up to 65-watt USB Power Delivery and DisplayPort 2.1. Interestingly, the HDMI port isn’t the only casualty with this redesign; the 3.5 mm headphone jack is also missing. It’s a curious omission for the Yoga Slim 7i, and one that will likely garner some backlash from the Yoga faithful. The USB-A port has also been abandoned, which means those reliant on compliant accessories will need to live the “dongle life” that Mac andDellXPS users have grown accustomed to. The only other items of note around the chassis are a dedicated power button on the right side (I fumbled around the keyboard deck for the power button for a few seconds at first) and an E-shutter switch for the 5-megapixel webcam. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. The Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (2026) measures 12.31 x 8.42 x 0.55 inches and weighs 2.15 pounds. TheDell XPS 14measures 12.19 x 8.26 x 0.58 inches and weighs 3 pounds, while theHP OmniBook X Flip 14measures 12.32 x 8.60 x 0.58 inches and weighs 3.11 pounds. Finally, the13-inch MacBook Air (M5)measures 11.97 x 8.46 x 0.44 inches and weighs 2.7 pounds. CPU Intel Core Ultra 7 355 Graphics Intel Arc Graphics (integrated) NPU Intel AI Boost, up to 49 TOPS Memory 32GB LPDDR5x-7467 (dual-channel, soldered) Storage 1TB M.2 2242 PCIe 4.0 SSD Display 14-inch, 2880 x 1800, 120 Hz, touch, POLED, Dolby Vision Networking Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 Ports 3x Thunderbolt 4 over USB Type-C Camera 5MP + IR, E-shutter Battery 75 WHr Power Adapter 65W USB-C Operating System Windows 11 Home Dimensions (WxDxH) 13.54 x 9.27 x 0.55 inches (312.6 x 213.8 x 13.9 mm) Weight 2.15 pounds (0.975 kg) Price (as configured) $1,629.99 The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (2026) is powered by Intel's Core Ultra 7 355 processor. The chip features 8 cores (4 performance, 4 efficiency), a base frequency of 2.3 GHz (performance cores), and a Max Turbo Boost frequency of 4.7 GHz (performance cores). Lenovo pairs the processor with 32GB of dual-channel LPDDR5x-7467 memory and a 1TB M.2 2242 PCIe 4.0 SSD. In the Geekbench 6 CPU benchmark, the Yoga Slim 7i with its Core Ultra 7 355 processor achieved a single-core score of 2,729 and a multi-core score of 11,555. This result compares quite favorably to Dell XPS 14, which uses the same CPU: it mustered 2,685 on the single-core benchmark and just 7,964 on the multi-core benchmark. Among the Intel-based competition, the Omnibook X Flip 14 (AMD Ryzen AI 7 350) upped the ante with single- and multi-core scores of 2,889 and 13,106, respectively. However, Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Air (M5) ran away from the competition, delivering a blistering 4,168 in single-core and 17,067 in multi-core. The Windows machines were evenly matched on our 25GB file transfer test, with both the Yoga Slim 7i and the OmniBook X Flip 14 getting pretty close to the 1,700 MBps mark. The XPS 14 crossed that line, achieving 1,730.36 MBps. The MacBook Air was faster still, recording 1,924.84 MBps with its 1TB SSD. Our Handbrake test transcodes a 4K video to 1080p, and here the Yoga Slim 7i completed the task in 5 minutes and 56 seconds, the slowest in the group. Interestingly, the XPS 14, which uses the same processor, was the fastest of all four systems, finishing in just 4 minutes and 30 seconds. We ran Cinebench 2026 for 10 loops to stress-test the Yoga Slim 7i. The system started in the 2,465 to 2,485 range, before settling in the upper 2,500’s for the remainder of the runs. The internal fans were audible during the stress test to keep the system cool. The four P-cores on the Core Ultra 355 ran at an average of 3.87 GHz, while the four E-cores clocked in at 3.49 GHz during the Cinebench 2026 stress test. The Yoga Slim 7i features integrated Intel Graphics, with 4 Xe cores operating at a maximum dynamic frequency of 2.5 GHz. During the 3DMark Steel Nomad benchmark, the Yoga Slim 7i scored just 513, putting it slightly behind the XPS 14. The MacBook Air was the overachiever in this group, nearly doubling the Yoga Slim 7i’s score at 1,005. Lenovo ships the Yoga Slim 7i with a vibrant 14-inch POLED display panel, covered in Gorilla Glass 3 with a glossy finish (like mostOLEDpanels). The display has a WQXGA+ (2880 x 1800) resolution and a maximum refresh rate of 120 Hz. Since we’re looking at an OLED panel here, it should come as no surprise that the colors were lush, while blacks were as deep as you could imagine for a laptop. OLEDs aren’t often known for going over the top with panel brightness, but the Yoga Slim 7i more than held its own, delivering 476 nits, the highest among the assembled laptops (the MacBook Air was in second at 458.8 nits). That strong showing filtered over to the color gamut coverage, where the Yoga Slim 7i reached 120.6 percent ofDCI-P3and 170.3 percent ofsRGB. But figures were second only to the OmniBook X Flip 14. I used the Yoga Slim 7i’s display to watch the first trailer forCoyote vs. ACME, which deftly combines computer-generated cartoon graphics with real-world settings and human characters. From the light and dark blues of the Roadrunner’s feathers to the red and orange explosions through (this trailer does, after all, feature the silly antics of Wile E. Coyote), the POLED panel handled the presentation with aplomb. I found the keyboard on the Yoga Slim 7i comfortable to type on, though the key surface felt a bit smoother and slipperier than what I’m used to. I wouldn’t say that it distracted from my typing experience; it just feltdifferent. The one thing that I would be concerned about, however, is the white finish on the keys. I can only imagine how grimy the keys will look after a few months of constant use once the oils from your fingers permeate through the surface. My only other comment about the keyboard would be that I’m not a fan of the half-height up/down arrows, which are flanked by full-size left and right arrows. I’d prefer all of the directional keys to be full-size, even if it came at the expense of a narrower right Shift key. Using my go-tokeyhero.comtyping benchmark, I hit 89 words per minute with 96 percent accuracy, which is about average for me (I’m no fast-typing dynamo). The keyboard deck and the touchpad, which I found highly responsive, are also covered in the same off-white color. The touchpad measures 4.72 x 2.95 inches and is buttonless; it uses a haptic mechanism for registering clicks (similar to MacBooks). I found that my fingers glided easily over the surface, and responsiveness was “just right” without requiring additional tweaks inWindows 11. The Yoga Slim 7i features a four-speaker sound system comprising two 2-watt woofers and two 2-watt tweeters. The speaker grills flank the keyboard, and are precision-machined into the deck. Sound quality was surprisingly good and vibrant for such a thin machine. Even more shocking was the amount of bass that the speakers were able to produce without seeming overpowering. I was bopping to the classic, “What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers, and could feel every bass line and drum hit with clarity. Michael McDonald’s soulful voice shined through, proving this classic is just as impactful nearly 50 years later. To my delight, as “What a Fool Believes” finished playing, my YouTube Music playlist kicked over to “Fantasy” by Earth, Wind, and Fire, and I was again blown away by this ultraportable system. The rhythm guitars, bass, and staccato horns — it all came together beautifully. You can use the Dolby Settings app to select Dynamic, Game, Movie, and Music profiles to suit youraudiotastes. The bottom panel of the Yoga Slim 7i is affixed with two eight screws and friction clips. With a well-placed finger between the panel and the gap in the display hinge, it popped off. Unfortunately, the LPDDR5x memory is soldered on, so there’s no way to upgrade it. And while the 2242 M.2 SSD is technically replaceable, it is hidden behind the heatpipe system that also covers the CPU and memory. If you want to replace the SSD, do so with caution. The Yoga Slim 7i proved to be a winner in our battery life test. The system lasted a healthy 16 hours and 38 minutes during the test, which encompasses web browsing, video streaming, and WebGL tests with the display set at 150 nits of brightness. Interestingly, the Yoga Slim 7i’s result was over an hour longer than the perennial endurance champ: the MacBook Air. We measured the surface and internal temperatures of the Yoga Slim 7i while running the Cinebench 2026 stress test. Surface temperatures were measured with a laser thermometer, while the process temperature was measured using internal sensors. The Core Ultra 7 355 processor measured 83.4 degrees Celsius. The keyboard registered 91 C, and the touchpad came in at 76.9 C. The bottom measured 94.2 C at its hottest point, while the hottest overall temperature (106 C) was at the top of the keyboard deck near the display hinge, where hot air exhausts. Lenovo includes a 5-megapixel webcam on the Yoga Slim 7i, which is mounted above the display. A tiny hump is integrated into the display lid to accommodate the camera hardware (which includes an IR sensor for Windows Hello facial recognition). I had no issues with the webcam’s performance, as color reproduction, sharpness, and clarity were on point. There were also no issues handling my overabundance of LED-based track lighting in my home office. Skin tones were also quite accurate, which is often an issue with my darker skin tone. The Yoga Slim 7i includes an E-shutter switch mounted on the right side of the chassis. This can be used to electronically enable or disable the camera. Our Yoga Slim 7i is an “Aura Edition,” meaning it has several smart features designed to make your life easier. The laptop includes Smart Modes (Working, Gaming, Creating, Entertainment, Meeting, Learning) that can be accessed within the Lenovo Vantage application. Based on the mode you select, the system can automatically configure settings (e.g., attention times, noise cancellation, or VPN access). The laptop includes Smart Modes (Working, Gaming, Creating, Entertainment, Meeting, Learning) that can be accessed within the Lenovo Vantage application. Based on the mode you select, the system can automatically configure settings (e.g., attention times, noise cancellation, or VPN access). Aura Smart Care provides real-time access to Lenovo technicians for troubleshooting, while Aura Smart Share lets you easily share media between a PC and a smartphone (including iPhones). You’ll also find the usual assortment of Lenovo-branded apps, including Vantage, which gives you control over power settings, Smart Modes, and other customization options. Vantage is also where you’ll find controls for presence detection, which I had to disable because it would put the system to sleep if I walked away for more than 30 seconds. But there's also some bloat: McAfeeSecurityis installed by default, along with Adobe subscription apps, and a 90-day trial to the Dropbox 100GB plan. The Yoga Slim 7i comes with a one-year warranty. Our Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 355 processor, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 2880 x 1800 POLED display, and itretails for $1,629.99. You can customize the system if you wish: an upgrade to Windows Home Pro costs $50, while going from a 1TB SSD to a 2TB SSD will set you back $190. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a standout machine, made even more impressive by its ultra-thin chassis that barely weighs over 2 pounds. Lenovo has also delivered on visuals with a gorgeous 14-inch 2.8K OLED touch display and a bangin’ quad-speaker audio system. If that wasn’t enough, the Yoga Slim 7i also delivered over 16 hours of runtime, even besting the mighty MacBook Air. However, that thin and light frame means that compromises had to be made on performance. The Core Ultra 7 355 came up short in our synthetic CPU test and real-world encoding tests (where it landed in last place). And when the CPU was being worked, the system fans were quite audible. Lenovo has also taken away some legacy ports that many people have come to rely on, including HDMI, USB-A, and even the 3.5mm headphone jack. With a price tag of just over $1,600, the Yoga Slim 7i is not a cheap ultraportable by any means. However, if you can look past the CPU shortfalls and fully embrace Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, you won’t be disappointed with its portability, display, or endurance. Brandon Hill is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware. He has written about PC and Mac tech since the late 1990s with bylines at AnandTech, DailyTech, and Hot Hardware. When he is not consuming copious amounts of tech news, he can be found enjoying the NC mountains or the beach with his wife and two sons.

Skip to comments. Posted on05/05/2026 5:44:09 AM PDTbyTwotone The list of names that will be used for tropical storms and hurricanes that form during the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season includes some simple ones like Arthur, Fay and Kyle.But it also marks the return of Isaias — a storm name that was used during the 2020 hurricane season and proved to be tough to pronounce.Isaias is supposed to be pronounced ees-ah-EE-ahs, but many TV and radio newscasters butchered it. (The most common mispronunciations included eye-ZAY-us and ee-SAY-us.)On the serious side, Isaias turned out to be a category 1 hurricane when it made landfall in North Carolina in August 2020 before heading up the I-95 corridor. The storm’s remnants drifted into New Jersey, spawning two tornadoes, uprooting scores of trees and generating breaking waves as high as 10 to 12 feet along the Jersey Shore.Across New Jersey, more than 1.4 million homes and businesses lost power and some restorations took up to a week after the storm’s remnants barreled through.(Excerpt) Read more atnj.com...TOPICS:Government;News/Current EventsKEYWORDS:hurricanenames;isaiasNavigation:use the links below to view more comments.first1-20,21-23nextlastI guess I've been pronouncing Isaias wrong all these years.1posted on05/05/2026 5:44:09 AM PDTbyTwotone[Post Reply|Private Reply|View Replies]To:TwotoneIsaias — ees-ah-EE-ahs???I-Say-as.........................2posted on05/05/2026 6:01:58 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Twotone3posted on05/05/2026 6:02:48 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneProphesy?4posted on05/05/2026 6:12:35 AM PDTbyLockbox(politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneI really hope we get a Hurricane Cristóbal5posted on05/05/2026 6:15:02 AM PDTbyOpinionated Blowhard(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Twotone“Tricky Isaias is back on the list.”“It’s Tricky”by RUN DMCstarring Penn and Tellerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj06posted on05/05/2026 6:38:45 AM PDTbyTom Tetroxide(Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneAnother testament to the insanity of DEI that the most important thing when it comes to hurricanes is making sure that the names we attach to these destructive forces are inclusive.7posted on05/05/2026 6:38:50 AM PDTbyDahoser(Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneSheila Jackson Lee will be displeased. Where is Tyrone and Shenikwa?8posted on05/05/2026 6:39:19 AM PDTbybk1000(Banned from Breitbart)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneRidiculous. Creating a problem where none exists, a Marxist specialty.9posted on05/05/2026 6:48:32 AM PDTbyFireone(1. Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Red BadgerIt doesn’t seem that long ago all hurricanes were named after women, which seemed appropriate.Also, “Nana” is a person’s name?10posted on05/05/2026 7:01:29 AM PDTbysubterfuge[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:bk1000What if they use Shenikwa and Chuni-qua and Jdaneekua, all pronounced the same in the same season?If they don’t, it is probably racist.11posted on05/05/2026 7:02:02 AM PDTbyUnwashedPeasant(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 8|View Replies]To:subterfugeYes............12posted on05/05/2026 7:03:59 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 10|View Replies]To:Red BadgerThat 4th one is guaranteed to hit TN.13posted on05/05/2026 7:06:11 AM PDTbyalephnull(Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a cult of death.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:alephnullI’m surprised that they reused ‘Sally’ so soon. We had a Hurricane Sally in 2020 that did major damage.............https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sally14posted on05/05/2026 7:08:22 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 13|View Replies]To:TwotoneNo LeQwantrel this year? How racist!! 🤣15posted on05/05/2026 7:56:38 AM PDTbyDeplorableTrumpSupporter(FKA ConservaTeen)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneFrom the title I thought the storm would be called “Tricky Isaias”.I like it.16posted on05/05/2026 8:38:02 AM PDTbyDoctor Congo[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:alephnullThat 4th one is guaranteed to hit TN.With duel impact.17posted on05/05/2026 8:38:31 AM PDTbyMikelTackNailer(doesn't cry over spilt milk. Craft beer and fine bourbon's another story.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 13|View Replies]Well I hope ol’ Wilfred doesn’t make the list.18posted on05/05/2026 9:03:43 AM PDTbydeport[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:TwotoneIsaias, pronounced: "I say ass".Kids will find it easy to pronounce. And it will never be on the list again. ;-)19posted on05/05/2026 12:31:40 PM PDTbyadorno( )[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:subterfuge"Also, “Nana” is a person’s name?"Hehaaaay, goodbye...20posted on05/06/2026 4:49:06 AM PDTbyHatteras[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 10|View Replies]Navigation:use the links below to view more comments.first1-20,21-23nextlastDisclaimer:Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.Free RepublicBrowse·SearchNews/ActivismTopics·Post ArticleFreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson But it also marks the return of Isaias — a storm name that was used during the 2020 hurricane season and proved to be tough to pronounce.Isaias is supposed to be pronounced ees-ah-EE-ahs, but many TV and radio newscasters butchered it. (The most common mispronunciations included eye-ZAY-us and ee-SAY-us.)On the serious side, Isaias turned out to be a category 1 hurricane when it made landfall in North Carolina in August 2020 before heading up the I-95 corridor. The storm’s remnants drifted into New Jersey, spawning two tornadoes, uprooting scores of trees and generating breaking waves as high as 10 to 12 feet along the Jersey Shore.Across New Jersey, more than 1.4 million homes and businesses lost power and some restorations took up to a week after the storm’s remnants barreled through.(Excerpt) Read more atnj.com...TOPICS:Government;News/Current EventsKEYWORDS:hurricanenames;isaiasNavigation:use the links below to view more comments.first1-20,21-23nextlastI guess I've been pronouncing Isaias wrong all these years.1posted on05/05/2026 5:44:09 AM PDTbyTwotone[Post Reply|Private Reply|View Replies]To:TwotoneIsaias — ees-ah-EE-ahs???I-Say-as.........................2posted on05/05/2026 6:01:58 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Twotone3posted on05/05/2026 6:02:48 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneProphesy?4posted on05/05/2026 6:12:35 AM PDTbyLockbox(politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneI really hope we get a Hurricane Cristóbal5posted on05/05/2026 6:15:02 AM PDTbyOpinionated Blowhard(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Twotone“Tricky Isaias is back on the list.”“It’s Tricky”by RUN DMCstarring Penn and Tellerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj06posted on05/05/2026 6:38:45 AM PDTbyTom Tetroxide(Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneAnother testament to the insanity of DEI that the most important thing when it comes to hurricanes is making sure that the names we attach to these destructive forces are inclusive.7posted on05/05/2026 6:38:50 AM PDTbyDahoser(Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneSheila Jackson Lee will be displeased. Where is Tyrone and Shenikwa?8posted on05/05/2026 6:39:19 AM PDTbybk1000(Banned from Breitbart)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneRidiculous. Creating a problem where none exists, a Marxist specialty.9posted on05/05/2026 6:48:32 AM PDTbyFireone(1. Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Red BadgerIt doesn’t seem that long ago all hurricanes were named after women, which seemed appropriate.Also, “Nana” is a person’s name?10posted on05/05/2026 7:01:29 AM PDTbysubterfuge[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:bk1000What if they use Shenikwa and Chuni-qua and Jdaneekua, all pronounced the same in the same season?If they don’t, it is probably racist.11posted on05/05/2026 7:02:02 AM PDTbyUnwashedPeasant(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 8|View Replies]To:subterfugeYes............12posted on05/05/2026 7:03:59 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 10|View Replies]To:Red BadgerThat 4th one is guaranteed to hit TN.13posted on05/05/2026 7:06:11 AM PDTbyalephnull(Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a cult of death.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:alephnullI’m surprised that they reused ‘Sally’ so soon. We had a Hurricane Sally in 2020 that did major damage.............https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sally14posted on05/05/2026 7:08:22 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 13|View Replies]To:TwotoneNo LeQwantrel this year? How racist!! 🤣15posted on05/05/2026 7:56:38 AM PDTbyDeplorableTrumpSupporter(FKA ConservaTeen)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneFrom the title I thought the storm would be called “Tricky Isaias”.I like it.16posted on05/05/2026 8:38:02 AM PDTbyDoctor Congo[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:alephnullThat 4th one is guaranteed to hit TN.With duel impact.17posted on05/05/2026 8:38:31 AM PDTbyMikelTackNailer(doesn't cry over spilt milk. Craft beer and fine bourbon's another story.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 13|View Replies]Well I hope ol’ Wilfred doesn’t make the list.18posted on05/05/2026 9:03:43 AM PDTbydeport[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:TwotoneIsaias, pronounced: "I say ass".Kids will find it easy to pronounce. And it will never be on the list again. ;-)19posted on05/05/2026 12:31:40 PM PDTbyadorno( )[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:subterfuge"Also, “Nana” is a person’s name?"Hehaaaay, goodbye...20posted on05/06/2026 4:49:06 AM PDTbyHatteras[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 10|View Replies]Navigation:use the links below to view more comments.first1-20,21-23nextlastDisclaimer:Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.Free RepublicBrowse·SearchNews/ActivismTopics·Post ArticleFreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson Isaias is supposed to be pronounced ees-ah-EE-ahs, but many TV and radio newscasters butchered it. (The most common mispronunciations included eye-ZAY-us and ee-SAY-us.)On the serious side, Isaias turned out to be a category 1 hurricane when it made landfall in North Carolina in August 2020 before heading up the I-95 corridor. The storm’s remnants drifted into New Jersey, spawning two tornadoes, uprooting scores of trees and generating breaking waves as high as 10 to 12 feet along the Jersey Shore.Across New Jersey, more than 1.4 million homes and businesses lost power and some restorations took up to a week after the storm’s remnants barreled through.(Excerpt) Read more atnj.com...TOPICS:Government;News/Current EventsKEYWORDS:hurricanenames;isaiasNavigation:use the links below to view more comments.first1-20,21-23nextlastI guess I've been pronouncing Isaias wrong all these years.1posted on05/05/2026 5:44:09 AM PDTbyTwotone[Post Reply|Private Reply|View Replies]To:TwotoneIsaias — ees-ah-EE-ahs???I-Say-as.........................2posted on05/05/2026 6:01:58 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Twotone3posted on05/05/2026 6:02:48 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneProphesy?4posted on05/05/2026 6:12:35 AM PDTbyLockbox(politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneI really hope we get a Hurricane Cristóbal5posted on05/05/2026 6:15:02 AM PDTbyOpinionated Blowhard(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Twotone“Tricky Isaias is back on the list.”“It’s Tricky”by RUN DMCstarring Penn and Tellerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj06posted on05/05/2026 6:38:45 AM PDTbyTom Tetroxide(Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneAnother testament to the insanity of DEI that the most important thing when it comes to hurricanes is making sure that the names we attach to these destructive forces are inclusive.7posted on05/05/2026 6:38:50 AM PDTbyDahoser(Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneSheila Jackson Lee will be displeased. Where is Tyrone and Shenikwa?8posted on05/05/2026 6:39:19 AM PDTbybk1000(Banned from Breitbart)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneRidiculous. Creating a problem where none exists, a Marxist specialty.9posted on05/05/2026 6:48:32 AM PDTbyFireone(1. Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Red BadgerIt doesn’t seem that long ago all hurricanes were named after women, which seemed appropriate.Also, “Nana” is a person’s name?10posted on05/05/2026 7:01:29 AM PDTbysubterfuge[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:bk1000What if they use Shenikwa and Chuni-qua and Jdaneekua, all pronounced the same in the same season?If they don’t, it is probably racist.11posted on05/05/2026 7:02:02 AM PDTbyUnwashedPeasant(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 8|View Replies]To:subterfugeYes............12posted on05/05/2026 7:03:59 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 10|View Replies]To:Red BadgerThat 4th one is guaranteed to hit TN.13posted on05/05/2026 7:06:11 AM PDTbyalephnull(Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a cult of death.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:alephnullI’m surprised that they reused ‘Sally’ so soon. We had a Hurricane Sally in 2020 that did major damage.............https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sally14posted on05/05/2026 7:08:22 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 13|View Replies]To:TwotoneNo LeQwantrel this year? How racist!! 🤣15posted on05/05/2026 7:56:38 AM PDTbyDeplorableTrumpSupporter(FKA ConservaTeen)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneFrom the title I thought the storm would be called “Tricky Isaias”.I like it.16posted on05/05/2026 8:38:02 AM PDTbyDoctor Congo[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:alephnullThat 4th one is guaranteed to hit TN.With duel impact.17posted on05/05/2026 8:38:31 AM PDTbyMikelTackNailer(doesn't cry over spilt milk. Craft beer and fine bourbon's another story.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 13|View Replies]Well I hope ol’ Wilfred doesn’t make the list.18posted on05/05/2026 9:03:43 AM PDTbydeport[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:TwotoneIsaias, pronounced: "I say ass".Kids will find it easy to pronounce. And it will never be on the list again. ;-)19posted on05/05/2026 12:31:40 PM PDTbyadorno( )[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:subterfuge"Also, “Nana” is a person’s name?"Hehaaaay, goodbye...20posted on05/06/2026 4:49:06 AM PDTbyHatteras[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 10|View Replies]Navigation:use the links below to view more comments.first1-20,21-23nextlastDisclaimer:Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.Free RepublicBrowse·SearchNews/ActivismTopics·Post ArticleFreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson On the serious side, Isaias turned out to be a category 1 hurricane when it made landfall in North Carolina in August 2020 before heading up the I-95 corridor. The storm’s remnants drifted into New Jersey, spawning two tornadoes, uprooting scores of trees and generating breaking waves as high as 10 to 12 feet along the Jersey Shore.Across New Jersey, more than 1.4 million homes and businesses lost power and some restorations took up to a week after the storm’s remnants barreled through.(Excerpt) Read more atnj.com...TOPICS:Government;News/Current EventsKEYWORDS:hurricanenames;isaiasNavigation:use the links below to view more comments.first1-20,21-23nextlastI guess I've been pronouncing Isaias wrong all these years.1posted on05/05/2026 5:44:09 AM PDTbyTwotone[Post Reply|Private Reply|View Replies]To:TwotoneIsaias — ees-ah-EE-ahs???I-Say-as.........................2posted on05/05/2026 6:01:58 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Twotone3posted on05/05/2026 6:02:48 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneProphesy?4posted on05/05/2026 6:12:35 AM PDTbyLockbox(politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneI really hope we get a Hurricane Cristóbal5posted on05/05/2026 6:15:02 AM PDTbyOpinionated Blowhard(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Twotone“Tricky Isaias is back on the list.”“It’s Tricky”by RUN DMCstarring Penn and Tellerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj06posted on05/05/2026 6:38:45 AM PDTbyTom Tetroxide(Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneAnother testament to the insanity of DEI that the most important thing when it comes to hurricanes is making sure that the names we attach to these destructive forces are inclusive.7posted on05/05/2026 6:38:50 AM PDTbyDahoser(Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneSheila Jackson Lee will be displeased. Where is Tyrone and Shenikwa?8posted on05/05/2026 6:39:19 AM PDTbybk1000(Banned from Breitbart)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneRidiculous. Creating a problem where none exists, a Marxist specialty.9posted on05/05/2026 6:48:32 AM PDTbyFireone(1. Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:Red BadgerIt doesn’t seem that long ago all hurricanes were named after women, which seemed appropriate.Also, “Nana” is a person’s name?10posted on05/05/2026 7:01:29 AM PDTbysubterfuge[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:bk1000What if they use Shenikwa and Chuni-qua and Jdaneekua, all pronounced the same in the same season?If they don’t, it is probably racist.11posted on05/05/2026 7:02:02 AM PDTbyUnwashedPeasant(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 8|View Replies]To:subterfugeYes............12posted on05/05/2026 7:03:59 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 10|View Replies]To:Red BadgerThat 4th one is guaranteed to hit TN.13posted on05/05/2026 7:06:11 AM PDTbyalephnull(Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a cult of death.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:alephnullI’m surprised that they reused ‘Sally’ so soon. We had a Hurricane Sally in 2020 that did major damage.............https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sally14posted on05/05/2026 7:08:22 AM PDTbyRed Badger(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 13|View Replies]To:TwotoneNo LeQwantrel this year? How racist!! 🤣15posted on05/05/2026 7:56:38 AM PDTbyDeplorableTrumpSupporter(FKA ConservaTeen)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:TwotoneFrom the title I thought the storm would be called “Tricky Isaias”.I like it.16posted on05/05/2026 8:38:02 AM PDTbyDoctor Congo[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:alephnullThat 4th one is guaranteed to hit TN.With duel impact.17posted on05/05/2026 8:38:31 AM PDTbyMikelTackNailer(doesn't cry over spilt milk. Craft beer and fine bourbon's another story.)[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 13|View Replies]Well I hope ol’ Wilfred doesn’t make the list.18posted on05/05/2026 9:03:43 AM PDTbydeport[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 3|View Replies]To:TwotoneIsaias, pronounced: "I say ass".Kids will find it easy to pronounce. And it will never be on the list again. ;-)19posted on05/05/2026 12:31:40 PM PDTbyadorno( )[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 1|View Replies]To:subterfuge"Also, “Nana” is a person’s name?"Hehaaaay, goodbye...20posted on05/06/2026 4:49:06 AM PDTbyHatteras[Post Reply|Private Reply|To 10|View Replies]Navigation:use the links below to view more comments.first1-20,21-23nextlastDisclaimer:Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.Free RepublicBrowse·SearchNews/ActivismTopics·Post ArticleFreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson Across New Jersey, more than 1.4 million homes and businesses lost power and some restorations took up to a week after the storm’s remnants barreled through. (Excerpt) Read more atnj.com... Isaias — ees-ah-EE-ahs??? I-Say-as......................... Prophesy? I really hope we get a Hurricane Cristóbal “Tricky Isaias is back on the list.” “It’s Tricky”by RUN DMCstarring Penn and Tellerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj0 Another testament to the insanity of DEI that the most important thing when it comes to hurricanes is making sure that the names we attach to these destructive forces are inclusive. Sheila Jackson Lee will be displeased. Where is Tyrone and Shenikwa? Ridiculous. Creating a problem where none exists, a Marxist specialty. It doesn’t seem that long ago all hurricanes were named after women, which seemed appropriate. Also, “Nana” is a person’s name? What if they use Shenikwa and Chuni-qua and Jdaneekua, all pronounced the same in the same season? If they don’t, it is probably racist. Yes............ I’m surprised that they reused ‘Sally’ so soon. We had a Hurricane Sally in 2020 that did major damage............. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sally No LeQwantrel this year? How racist!! 🤣 From the title I thought the storm would be called “Tricky Isaias”.I like it. With duel impact. Well I hope ol’ Wilfred doesn’t make the list. Hehaaaay, goodbye... Navigation:use the links below to view more comments.first1-20,21-23nextlastDisclaimer:Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.Free RepublicBrowse·SearchNews/ActivismTopics·Post ArticleFreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson Disclaimer:Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

TRIESTE – L’Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centro-Settentrionale ha riaperto il bando “Porti Verdi”, stanziando 4 milioni di euro a fondo perduto per sostenere terminalisti e concessionari portuali nella sostituzione dei mezzi operativi in banchina con attrezzature elettriche o a idrogeno. Le domande si possono presentare fino al 30 giugno 2026. L’intensità di aiuto arriva fino al 100% dei costi ammissibili, con un tetto di 300.000 euro per singolo beneficiario. Si tratta di una misura importante e strategica nel panorama degli incentivi italiani, resa possibile dalla classificazione del contributo come compensazione dei costi addizionali per la decarbonizzazione rispetto all’acquisto dell’equivalente mezzo diesel. Tra le spese ammesse: acquisto di veicoli nuovi elettrici o a idrogeno – tra cui muletti, gru, spazzatrici, autocarri – retrofit di mezzi diesel esistenti, installazione di infrastrutture di ricarica, spese tecniche di progettazione e formazione degli operatori. Esclusi i mezzi a metano, gli acquisti di usato e qualsiasi spesa sostenuta prima del decreto di aggiudicazione. Possono accedere al bando i privati terminalisti e i titolari di concessione o titolo equivalente rilasciato dall’AdSP, che svolgano la propria attività all’interno del porto di Ravenna o di Marina di Ravenna. La concessione deve essere in corso di validità per almeno cinque anni dalla data di domanda, arco temporale corrispondente al vincolo di utilizzo del bene acquistato. La procedura è a sportello: le domande vengono valutate in ordine di arrivo fino a esaurimento delle risorse disponibili , con decreto di aggiudicazione atteso entro 60-90 giorni dalla scadenza e liquidazione del 50% di anticipo entro 30 giorni dal decreto. Il bando si inserisce nell’investimento 1.1 del PNRR “Porti verdi”, per il quale il Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza ha complessivamente stanziato 270 milioni di euro destinati alla sostenibilità ambientale degli scali italiani.

U.S.-headquartered oil and gas exploration and production company Kosmos Energy and its partner, Shell, are planning to spud a prospect in the Gulf of America (U.S. Gulf of Mexico) next year. By entering into a strategic alliance with Shell in February 2026 in the Norphlet trend, Kosmos deepened its inventory of future opportunities for its infrastructure-led exploration (ILX) strategy in the Gulf of America. The two companies now have alignment over ten blocks in the U.S. Gulf to explore multiple high-potential prospects, includingTrailblazer, which comes with significant potential of approximately 200 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) gross. If the drilling activities end up being successful, the asset could be tied back into Shell’s nearbyAppomattoxplatform. The duo intends to drill Trailblazer in the first half of 2027, with Kosmos designated as the development operator. The firm’s production in the Gulf of America averaged approximately 16,800 boepd net of around 84% oil during the first quarter of 2026, with strong performance from its operatedOdd JobandKodiakfields. Early in the second quarter, the Winterfell-2 well was shut in pending future intervention. As the operator with a 50% working interest inTiberius, in the outboard Wilcox play, the company took a final investment decision (FID) with its partner, Occidental (50%), in March 2026. The project targets first oil in the second half of 2028, with long-lead items already secured and most of the capital expected in 2027 and 2028. A farm-down to reduce Kosmos’ working interest to about 33% has now started and is expected to close later this year. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Panoro buying Kosmos Energy’s production assets off Equatorial Guinea for up to $219.5M Andrew G. Inglis, Kosmos’ Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented:“Earlier this year, we set four goals for 2026: increase production from our core assets; lower costs; reduce debt; and advance our high‑quality growth portfolio with minimal capital. We are delivering strongly on all four of these goals. […] “With oil prices higher, our goals are unchanged. We will direct excess free cash flow toward accelerated debt reduction and further strengthening the balance sheet. Our exposure to premium international oil markets positions Kosmos to capture value from current market dislocations and reinforces our confidence in the path ahead.” Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!

Saipem’s 165-meter-long pipelay vessel Castoro 10 has begun the construction of an offshore pipeline in the Romanian part of the Black Sea that will transport natural gas from an offshore production platform to shore as part of the Neptun Deep project. With estimated investments of up to €4 billion, OMV Petrom, Romania-headquartered affiliate of Austria’s OMV, together with Romgaz, is progressing the development of theNeptun Deep projectwith first gas on schedule for 2027. The pipeline will be approximately 160 kilometers long, with a diameter of 30” (76 cm). Castoro 10, the first vessel destined for deployment at the project, has arrived in Romania to install the first section of the pipeline in the coastal area, with the connection to be made via a microtunnel already constructed in Tuzla. “Neptun Deep is a strategic project for Romania and for the energy security of the region, involving investments of around EUR 4 billion and an estimated annual production of around 8 billion cubic meters of natural gas. In 2026, we will make significant progress here in Romania: installing the offshore pipeline, subsea equipment, and the production platform. All activities are carried out to the highest safety and quality standards, with the objective of starting production in 2027,”saidChristina Verchere, CEO of OMV Petrom. Two other vessels involved in the installation activities include Saipem’sCastorone, with its 330-meter length one of the largest and most powerful offshore pipelayers, and the 215-meterJSD 6000multipurpose deep‑water pipelaying and heavy‑lift vessel, which will install the subsea infrastructure in the deepwater area, connecting the wells to the production platform. “The installation work planned for this year involves mobilizing a fleet of approximately 50 vessels – up to 10 of which are involved in the pipeline installation work. These are world-class vessels specialized in subsea installations, including some of the largest offshore units in the world,”saidCristian Hubati, OMV Petrom Executive Board member responsible for Exploration and Production. Neptun Deep includes the offshore production platform, three subsea systems, 10 production wells –four already drilled on Pelican South and six underway on Domino– as well as the onshore gas metering and control station at Tuzla. Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!