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China Is Helping Drive Cuba's Solar Boom

Slashdot
1 week 3 days ago
AleRunner writes: "China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades," reports The Washington Post. Later in the article, it states that "China's decades-long push into clean energy technology is now helping to protect it from the soaring oil and gas crisis spurred by Trump's war against Iran," and that "Chinese exports of solar equipment to Cuba skyrocketed from about $5 million in 2023 to $117 million in 2025 and show no sign of stopping." According to researchers from Ember, solar could be responsible for as much as 10% of Cuba's electricity generation. "That would be among the fastest expansions of solar energy anywhere [...] and place Cuba ahead of most countries -- including the U.S. -- in the share of electricity generated by sun power," the report says. As the Iran war drives energy prices higher, countries around the world are working overtime to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. China sees this as a big opportunity. "Chinese authorities have made clear that they intend to replicate what they're doing in Cuba elsewhere," reports the Washington Post.

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Error'd: Yeah Yeah I'm The Tax Man

The Daily WTF
1 week 3 days ago

In only a handful of years, four Liverpudlian scruffs clawed their way from obscurity to unprecedented worldwide celebrity.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Already making a mint from "Money" and other hits, by 1965 they were MBEs, and suddenly discovered class solidarity -- with the rest of the singlet-clad bathers in their grottos of ducats. To be fair, a 97% marginal rate does make it hard for a lad to break into the ranks of true generational wealth.
So in 1966, George Harrison and his newly-minted toffs released the anti-government protest shriek of the upper class, and even now, we Americans share their pain in this our momen of reckoning with ... the Tax Man.

The Beast in Black first complained "I tried to get my W2 (for our non-Murican friends, that's the statement from your employer showing how much they paid you and how much tax they deducted) from ADP, and apparently their programmers did a number (two) on the form. TRWTF is that the damn form actually works if I add the slash separators to the date components."

 

And again he moaned "Frankly, I'm a little too scared by this WTF to be snarky; I'd expect a Tax Accounting firm - H&R Block in this case - to not have such basic accounting WTFs. Perhaps they should change their name to H&R Blockhead...?"

 

Adam R. remarked "It's tax season again. I hope their tax return backend is better than their JavaScript frontend that set the tooltip on this image to [object Object]."

 

Frustrated Dustin S. is trying to comply: "I logged into my credit union to download the tax documents for my account, but when I clicked on the link, this is what I got. Maybe doing taxes by invoice in the U.S. now?"

 

And looking to the future, the tax man cometh inevitably for Michael R. , though not today. "In green: I want to enter a discount for the items I'm selling. The error says:"Invalid discount amount. Please enter a discount of less than €0.00 (packaging costs + taxes).". Yes, I have also tried to enter -7,41 without any luck. In blue: It says:"Total amount approx.". Maybe one of the ebay lawyers figured out they are using float data types and wants to cover their bottoms against the rounding errors?"

 

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