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Solo tenia seis meses.

SANTIAGO – Un niño de seis meses de edad perdió la vida a causa del virus del dengue en el sector La Canela de la provincia de Santiago. Según versiones, el infante estaba presentando un cuadro de fiebre alta, vómitos y decidieron llevarlo al Hospital Arturo Grullón, es decir, al …

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“Padre en ti me encomiendo, me estoy entregando en tus brazos”

Un video que parte el alma, un señor acostado en la camilla de un centro de salud con una terrible dificultad para respirar. Su hermana que graba el video, le pide rezar un padre nuestro a ver si se calma, en un momento ella se desespera y pide que manden …

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Ministro en SFM hay más de 50 muertos! El Ministro se killa.

El director de AGENDA56, nuestro amigo Félix Vargas, difirió de las estadísticas mostradas este viernes por el ministro de Salud Pública, Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas, durante la rueda de prensa de su mas reciente boletín con relación a los casos confirmados y fallecidos por el COVID-19. Vargas aseguró en el municipio …

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Pastor reprende a Don Miguelo.

Con un tabaco en la boca y buches de alcohol, desde una residencia de San Francisco de Macorís, epicentro de la pandemia del coronavirus en República Dominicana, se transmite cada noche la fiesta más caliente y morbosa en los tiempos de cuarentena. Su ruido llegó hasta un pastor evangélico que …

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Su última foto cuando estaba interno.

Falleció la madrugada de este viernes en un centro hospitalario de Estados Unidos, el joven francomacorisano radicado en el exterior Romny Berman Torres Hidalgo. Torres permaneció varios días ingresado en un centro de salud, al presentar fuerte complicaciones respiratorias, producto del coronavirus. El fallecido joven era oriundo de una comunidad …

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1488 infectados y 68 muertos reportados en RD.

SANTO DOMINGO.- A 32 días de que se confirmara el primer caso de coronavirus en el país, las muertes provocadas por la pandemia se elevaron a 68 y en total 1,488 personas han sido diagnosticadas con la enfermedad, según informó este viernes el ministro de Salud Pública, Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas.

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Personas se aglomera buscando el dinero de la comida.

SANTO DOMINGO.- Desde tempranas horas de este viernes cientos de personas acudieron al centro comercial Megacentro, en Santo Domingo Este, a fin de, según expresaron, buscar una tarjeta Solidaridad para hacer frente a la situación generada por el COVID-19 en el país. Reporteros de este medio observaron largas filas y …

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Yo voy a empezar a infectar gente pa que me hagan caso.

Continúan circulando denuncias redes sociales sobre personas con síntomas de Coronavirus y no consiguen la prueba a pesar de contar con los recursos. En esta oportunidad nos llega el video en donde una joven ha denunciado que las autoridades no le han hecho la prueba del COVID-19 independientemente de que …

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INTERNACIONAL: Enfermero mata novia por pegarle coronavirus.

Un enfermero italiano estranguló a muerte a su novia tras acusarla, sin basamento, de haberlo infectado con el coronavirus, informan medios locales. De Pace, de 28 años y habitante de Sicilia, llamó a la Policía el martes y confesó que había matado a su pareja, Lorena Quaranta, doctora de 27 …

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Familia Se Enfrenta con agentes en pleno toque de queda.

Santo Domingo, RD.- Integrantes de una familia se enfrentaron con agentes de la Policía Nacional en medio del operativo desplegado para detener a quienes desacaten el toque de queda que inicia a las cinco de la tarde y termina a las seis de la mañana para evitar que el coronavirus …

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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.