A Hydrogen Project Could Kill World's Largest Telescope’s Abilities!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today, January 19th, 2025. God bless you and yours, no matter where you are in the world. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. Hydrogen production could kill the world's largest telescope with light pollution. Astronomers are sounding the alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location Faces a risk of being blinded by light pollution due to a planned renewable energy project. The U.S. energy company AES Energy wants to build a large renewable hydrogen manufacturing complex in Chile only a few kilometers from the summit of Mount Paranal, the site of the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, or the ESO VLT. The VLT, which cost around $350 million to build in 1990, approximately $850 million in today's dollars, is one of the world's most sensitive sky-watching instruments, capable of observing the most intriguing objects in the universe. The high-precision observatory consists of four 27-foot-wide or 8.2-meter-wide Telescopes that act as one and shed light on some of the most mysterious phenomena known to humankind. But the observing potential of this astronomical powerhouse will be significantly curtailed if the hydrogen project called INNA receives a go-ahead. Xavier Barcons, ESO Director General, told Space.com Quote, the brightness of the sky is going to increase by at least 10% from this project, Barcons said, and that is enough to make a difference between having the best observatory in the world and just another average observatory. The two things cannot be in the same place. It's that simple. Mount Paranal, an 8,740-foot-high peak. In the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, it's one of the last spots on Earth free from urban and industrial light pollution. Thanks to the unique geography of the Andes Mountain Range, the star-studded night sky above the summit is perfectly clear more than 11 months of the year, providing perfect conditions for the most challenging astronomical research. And ladies and gentlemen, we need to keep it that way. God bless you and yours. Please share, subscribe, and always remember, anything's possible in Bizarro World.