QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador on Tuesday began to ration electricity in the country’s main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants that produce about 75% of the nation’s power.
Soldiers in the British Army will trial a high-power radio frequency weapon that can knock out an enemy’s electricity supply as early as this summer. Boffins at the high-security Porton Down research laboratories compared the technology to that used in the film
Israel could potentially unleash deadly Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) bombs on Iran if the latter initiates an attack, escalating World War 3 fears. The tension between Israel and its neighbouring foes has been intensifying in recent months due to the ongoing war in
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A woman died after falling from a ladder whilst topping up her electricity meter at home an inquest has heard. Bernadette Faulkner, 80, fell from a stepladder whilst attempting to reach her flat’s prepayment meter in Bloomsbury on December 2, 2022. Following
Britain has found itself increasingly reliant on electricity imports from Europe, shelling out a staggering £3.5 billion on power from France, Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands last year. The data, revealed by London Stock Exchange (LSEG) Power Research, indicates that this amounted
With snow landing across the UK this week and temperatures plunging, central heating has certainly been necessary. But how we heat our homes looks set to change in the next 10 or 20 years. The government believes that heat pumps will be
Towering over central Bucharest, the Palace of the Parliament, also known as the People’s House has gone down as one of the largest vanity projects ever undertaken. Construction of the colossal building alone displaced 40,000 residents and destroyed an entire neighbourhood before
The United Nations has been forced to shutter its European HQ due to electricity costs, with bills proving almost insurmountable for the international organisation. The Palais des Nations in Geneva will remain closed for the next week, until January 12, due to
South African authorities said they conducted raids across five provinces Thursday to break up a coal-smuggling syndicate they blamed for stealing more than $26 million in coal, degrading state-owned power plants and contributing to an electricity crisis. The criminal gang diverted trucks