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Prepárense a morir con esta fotocrónica.

Mi gente, en esta cuarentena y toque de queda está generando todo tipo de situaciones y videos que se hacen virales. En esta ocasión tenemos un video bastante jocoso de una detención llevada a cabo por las autoridades durante el toque de queda. Lo gracioso del caso es que quien …

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Se comen con yuca al Ministro.

Nuestro amigo Félix Vargas, oriundo de San Francisco de Macorís y dueño del medio Agenda56.com, dice que el Ministro de Salud Pública le está mintiendo a la sociedad y al pueblo de San Francisco de Macorís, con respecto al coronavirus. Él afirma que ha tenido que poner a disposición empleados …

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Milly Quezada Rompe en llanto por la muerte de su cuñado.

La merenguera dominicana Milly Quezada rompió en llanto durante una entrevista en la que se refirió a la muerte de su cuñado, el pastor Fausto Arias, quien falleció ayer domingo a causa del COVID-19. En la entrevista la cantante dijo que no hay palabras para describir lo tan devastada que …

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Le dio uno solo.

BONAO – Los casos de violencia de género son una gran problemática en todo el mundo, muchas veces siendo esto la razón por la que familias completas se han destruido. En esta oportunidad nos llega un video en donde se puede apreciar hasta qué punto ha llegado nuestra sociedad en …

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Tiene fiebre, se me va a morir.

SANTO DOMINGO.- Tras la confirmación de dos muertes en la Penitenciaría Nacional La Victoria, una de ellas confirmada por Coronavirus, además de otro caso positivo, el temor se apodera de los parientes de los internos ante la posibilidad de un contagio masivo. Aunque el miedo se incrementó tras la confirmación …

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Lo que encontraron al levantarse.

SANTIAGO.- El cadáver de un hombre permanece en la avenida Circunvalación del sector de Nivaje en Santiago, lo que ha causado temor entre sus residentes. Desde las primeras horas de la mañana de este domingo residentes del referido sector, encontraron al occiso cubierto con una sábana próximo a la estación …

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Una desgarradora despedida.

El pasado 19 de marzo, una joven, identificada como Yohanny Núñez, publicó que su padre había sido ingresado el lunes 13 en un centro hospitalario y todavía no le habían hecho la prueba. En esa misma publicación, Núñez dijo que su padre, llamado Darío Castillo, fue ingresado por dificultades para …

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Encontraron al viejo Liopo en la calle después de las 5 de la tarde.

En su cuenta de instagram publicaron el siguiente video con el mensaje “Tal vez ahora el entienda que no se puede salir después de las 5:00pm gracias a la policía nacional de República Dominicana por el gran trabajo que están haciendo”. Leopoldo Severino, “El Viejo Liopo“, residente en San Pedro …

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Cuñado de Milly Quezada pierde la batalla.

El pastor Fausto Arias, cuñado de la merenguera Milly Quezada, murió la noche del domingo, luego de más de una semana interno en Nueva York por coronavirus. Tenía 64 años. “El pastor Fausto Arias, esposo de la también pastora Jocelyn Arias, hermana de Milly Quezada, falleció a las siete y …

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“Vamo a cortarle una mano”.

SANTIAGO – Los casos de delincuencia siguen azotando al país a pesar de que estamos en plena pandemia del nuevo coronavirus covid-19. Y es que muchos se han dado la tarea de violentar la cuarentena y salir a hacer sus fechorías por las calles dominicanas, sin importarles que ellos mismos …

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The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution. Modern society consumes large amounts of fuel, and the energy industry is a crucial part of the infrastructure and maintenance of society in almost all countries.In particular, the energy industry comprises: the petroleum industry, including oil companies, petroleum refiners, fuel transport and end-user sales at gas stations the gas industry, including natural gas extraction, and coal gas manufacture, as well as distribution and sales
the electrical power industry, including electricity generation, electric power distribution and sales the coal industry the nuclear power industry the renewable energy industry, comprising alternative energy and sustainable energy companies, including those involved in hydroelectric power, wind power, and solar power generation, and the manufacture, distribution and sale of alternative fuels traditional energy industry based on the collection and distribution of firewood, the use of which, for cooking and heating, is particularly common in poorer countries. The use of energy has been a key in the development of the human society by helping it to control and adapt to the environment. Managing the use of energy is inevitable in any functional society. In the industrialized world the development of energy resources has become essential for agriculture, transportation, waste collection, information technology, communications that have become prerequisites of a developed society. The increasing use of energy since the Industrial Revolution has also brought with it a number of serious problems, some of which, such as global warming, present potentially grave risks to the world. In some industries, the word energy is used as a synonym of energy resources, which refer to substances like fuels, petroleum products and electricity in general, because a significant portion of the energy contained in these resources can easily be extracted to serve a useful purpose. After a useful process has taken place, the total energy is conserved, but the ressource itself is not conserved, since a process usually transforms the energy into unusable forms (such as unnecessary or excess heat). Ever since humanity discovered various energy resources available in nature, it has been inventing devices, known as machines, that make life more comfortable by using energy resources. Thus, although the primitive man knew the utility of fire to cook food, the invention of devices like gas burners and microwave ovens has increased the usage of energy for this purpose alone manyfold. The trend is the same in any other field of social activity, be it construction of social infrastructure, manufacturing of fabrics for covering; porting; printing; decorating, for example textiles, air conditioning; communication of information or for moving people and goods (automobiles). Production and consumption of energy resources is very important to the global economy. All economic activity requires energy resources, whether to manufacture goods, provide transportation, run computers and other machines. Widespread demand for energy may encourage competing energy utilities and the formation of retail energy markets. Note the presence of the “Energy Marketing and Customer Service” (EMACS) sub-sector.[1] The energy sector accounts for 4.6% of outstanding leveraged loans, compared with 3.1% a decade ago, while energy bonds make up 15.7% of the $1.3 trillion junk bond market, up from 4.3% over the same period.[2] Since the cost of energy has become a significant factor in the performance of economy of societies, management of energy resources has become very crucial. Energy management involves utilizing the available energy resources more effectively that is with minimum incremental costs. Many times it is possible to save expenditure on energy without incorporating fresh technology by simple management techniques.[3] Most often energy management is the practice of using energy more efficiently by eliminating energy wastage or to balance justifiable energy demand with appropriate energy supply. The process couples energy awareness with energy conservation. Government encouragement in the form of subsidies and tax incentives for energy-conservation efforts has increasingly fostered the view of conservation as a major function of the energy industry: saving an amount of energy provides economic benefits almost identical to generating that same amount of energy. This is compounded by the fact that the economics of delivering energy tend to be priced for capacity as opposed to average usage. One of the purposes of a smart grid infrastructure is to smooth out demand so that capacity and demand curves align more closely. Some parts of the energy industry generate considerable pollution, including toxic and greenhouse gases from fuel combustion, nuclear waste from the generation of nuclear power, and oil spillages as a result of petroleum extraction. Government regulations to internalize these externalities form an increasing part of doing business, and the trading of carbon credits and pollution credits on the free market may also result in energy-saving and pollutin-control measures becoming even more important to energy providers. Consumption of energy resources, (e.g. turning on a light) requires resources and has an effect on the environment. Many electric power plants burn coal, oil or natural gas in order to generate electricity for energy needs. While burning these fossil fuels produces a readily available and instantaneous supply of electricity, it also generates air pollutants including carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide and trioxide (SOx) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Carbon dioxide is an important greenhouse gas which is thought to be responsible for some fraction of the rapid increase in climate change seen especially in the temperature records in the 20th century, as compared with tens of thousands of years worth of temperature records which can be read from ice cores taken in Arctic regions. Burning fossil fuels for electricity generation also releases trace metals such as beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, manganese, mercury, nickel, and silver into the environment, which also act as pollutants. The large-scale use of renewable energy technologies would “greatly mitigate or eliminate a wide range of environmental and human health impacts of energy use”.[8][9] Renewable energy technologies include biofuels, solar heating and cooling, hydroelectric power, solar power, and wind power. Energy conservation and the efficient use of energy would also help. In addition, it is argued that there is also the potential to develop a more efficient energy sector. This can be done by:[10] Fuel switching in the power sector from coal to natural gas; Power plant optimisation and other measures to improve the efficiency of existing CCGT power plants; Combined heat and power (CHP), from micro-scale residential to large-scale industrial; Waste heat recovery Best available technology (BAT) offers supply-side efficiency levels far higher than global averages. The relative benefits of gas compared to coal are influenced by the development of increasingly efficient energy production methods. According to an impact assessment carried out for the European Commission, the levels of energy efficiency of coal-fired plants built have now increased to 46-49% efficiency rates, as compared to coals plants built before the 1990s (32-40%).[11] However, at the same time gas can reach 58-59% efficiency levels with the best available technology.[11] Meanwhile, combined heat and power can offer efficiency rates of 80-90%.[11] Energy security is the intersection of national security and the availability of natural resources for energy consumption. Access to cheap energy has become essential to the functioning of modern economies. However, the uneven distribution of energy supplies among countries has led to significant vulnerabilities. Threats to energy security include the political instability of several energy producing countries, the manipulation of energy supplies, the competition over energy sources, attacks on supply infrastructure, as well as accidents, natural disasters, the funding to foreign dictators, rising terrorism, and dominant countries reliance to the foreign oil supply.[15] The limited supplies, uneven distribution, and rising costs of fossil fuels, such as oil and gas, create a need to change to more sustainable energy sources in the foreseeable future. With as much dependence that the U.S. currently has for oil and with the peaking limits of oil production; economies and societies will begin to feel the decline in the resource that we have become dependent upon. Energy security has become one of the leading issues in the world today as oil and other resources have become as vital to the world’s people. However, with oil production rates decreasing and oil production peak nearing the world has come to protect what resources we have left in the world. With new advancements in renewable resources less pressure has been put on companies that produce the world’s oil, these resources are, geothermal, solar power, wind power and hydro-electric. Although these are not all the current and possible future options for the world to turn to as the oil depletes the most important issue is protecting these vital resources from future threats. These new resources will become more useful as the price of exporting and importing oil will increase due to increase of demand.