The clean Green energy fiasco has reached a new level of incompetence and waste... Totally Wasted Wind Power Bloomberg reports UK Is Paying £1 Billion to Waste a Record Amount of Wind Power Burgeoning capacity and blustery weather should have driven huge growth in output in 2024. But the grid can’t cope, forcing the operator to pay wind farms to turn off, a cost ultimately borne by consumers. It’s a situation that puts at risk plans to decarbonize the network by 2030 and makes it harder to cut bills. Crucial to the net zero grid…

4 de diciembre de 2024.- Como causa de las acciones violentas producidas durante las manifestaciones, más de 150 policías, así como numerosos ciudadanos y representantes de los medios de comunicación resultaron heridos, informó este miércoles el Ministerio del Interior de Georgia. Asimismo, la pr...

4 de diciembre de 2024.- Los impuestos aportarán un tercio -33,19 %- de los ingresos corrientes del presupuesto de gastos que la Asamblea Nacional aprobó, en primera discusión y por mayoría calificada, luego de que fuera presentado en sesión especial por la vicepresidenta Delcy Rodríguez. En el p...

The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan concluded last week, with lengthy and challenging negotiations yielding an eleventh-hour deal on tackling climate change. At its core was a groundbreaking pledge by wealthy nations to provide $300 billion annually in climate finance by 2035—a tripling of the current target, but significantly lower than what is needed to support emerging and developing economies.  Last year, energy end-users spent a staggering $10.5 trillion, with $6.3 trillion borne by non-OECD countries.…

4 de diciembre de 2024.- Este miércoles 4 de diciembre, el casabe fue declarado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), como Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad, inscripción realizada por Venezuela, Cuba, República Dominicana, Haití ...

NATO members have agreed to make protecting Ukraine's infrastructure a top priority, alliance chief Mark Rutte said on December 4, as Russia continues to pound Ukrainian cities and towns with drone and missile strikes. Speaking to reporters ahead of the second day of a meeting of foreign ministers from the 32-member military alliance, Rutte said the gathering discussed providing Ukraine with enough air defense systems to protect its infrastructure against Russian attacks. "There was a clear agreement around the table last night that to help Ukraine,…

4 de diciembre de 2024.- Namibia eligió a su primera presidenta, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, mujer de 72 años cuya edad indica que vivió los años de la ocupación de Sudáfrica racista y la lucha de la Organización del Pueblo de África Sudoccidental (SWAPO). La futura mandataria, candidata por la Swapo...

4 de diciembre de 2024.- La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (Unesco) anunció este miércoles la inscripción de los “Conocimientos y prácticas tradicionales para la elaboración y el consumo del casabe” en la lista de Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la H...

Antimony prices soared 40% on Wednesday after China on Tuesday banned exports to the United States of several critical minerals. China enforced the existing limits on antimony, gallium, and germanium - critical minerals that have widespread military applications ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking office next month. "In principle, the export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the United States shall not be permitted," Chinese Commerce Ministry said. China is the world’s largest producer of antimony, accounting…

Antimony prices soared 40% on Wednesday after China on Tuesday banned exports to the United States of several critical minerals. China enforced the existing limits on antimony, gallium, and germanium - critical minerals that have widespread military applications ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking office next month. "In principle, the export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the United States shall not be permitted," Chinese Commerce Ministry said. China is the world’s largest producer of antimony, accounting…

Antimony prices soared 40% on Wednesday after China on Tuesday banned exports to the United States of several critical minerals. China enforced the existing limits on antimony, gallium, and germanium - critical minerals that have widespread military applications ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking office next month. "In principle, the export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the United States shall not be permitted," Chinese Commerce Ministry said. China is the world’s largest producer of antimony, accounting…

The Pentagon just got a painful wake-up call.Its stockpiles of crucial armaments are depleting at a record pace as the war in Ukraine drags on, and its poorly armed allies are even worse off. Intelligence officers in Germany said that the country has only two days’ worth of ammunition in case of a military threat.  In March 2024, the European Union allocated 500,000,000 Euros under the Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP) to boost output capacity to 2 million shells annually by the end of 2025.But the Western militaries have…

Crude oil prices moved higher today after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported an inventory decline of 5.1 million barrels for the week to November 29. The change compared with a build of 1.23 million barrels for the week, as estimated by the American Petroleum Institute a day earlier. It also compared with an EIA-estimated draw of 1.8 million barrels for the prior week. The authority also reported builds in fuel inventories for the period. In gasoline, the EIA estimated an inventory build of 2.4 million barrels for the final week…

El Gobierno de Argentina anunció hoy martes que impulsará una serie de modificaciones al régimen migratorio, cambios que implicarán, entre otras medidas, el fin de la gratuidad de atención médica para extranjeros en los hospitales públicos y la implementación de un arancel para estudiantes ext...

El Ministerio de Energía y Minas de Cuba reportó en la madrugada de este miércoles una nueva desconexión del Sistema Electroenergético Nacional (SEN). La entidad publicó en su perfil oficial de la red social X que “a las 2:08 de esta madrugada, se produjo la desconexión del Si...

La economista y profesora de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), María Isabel Díaz, informó que realizó una investigación «exhaustiva» para averiguar los precios de los ingredientes que se utilizan para la realización de las hallacas para la temporada navideña. En...

Hungary, which continues to receive Russian natural gas via pipeline, has asked U.S. authorities to exempt Russia’s Gazprombank from the sanctions when payments for natural gas are processed, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday. “Yesterday we filed our request with the relevant American authorities that calls for Gazprombank being granted an exception from sanctions when it comes to payments for natural gas,” Szijjarto said at a briefing, as quoted by Reuters. Last month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s…

Hungary, which continues to receive Russian natural gas via pipeline, has asked U.S. authorities to exempt Russia’s Gazprombank from the sanctions when payments for natural gas are processed, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday. “Yesterday we filed our request with the relevant American authorities that calls for Gazprombank being granted an exception from sanctions when it comes to payments for natural gas,” Szijjarto said at a briefing, as quoted by Reuters. Last month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s…

Hungary, which continues to receive Russian natural gas via pipeline, has asked U.S. authorities to exempt Russia’s Gazprombank from the sanctions when payments for natural gas are processed, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday. “Yesterday we filed our request with the relevant American authorities that calls for Gazprombank being granted an exception from sanctions when it comes to payments for natural gas,” Szijjarto said at a briefing, as quoted by Reuters. Last month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s…

Hungary, which continues to receive Russian natural gas via pipeline, has asked U.S. authorities to exempt Russia’s Gazprombank from the sanctions when payments for natural gas are processed, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday. “Yesterday we filed our request with the relevant American authorities that calls for Gazprombank being granted an exception from sanctions when it comes to payments for natural gas,” Szijjarto said at a briefing, as quoted by Reuters. Last month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s…