Today, Mexico produces around 20% of its electricity through renewable sources like wind, solar, geothermal or biomass. However, the plans of the Federal Government are even more ambitious, and they will try that half of the electricity comes from renewables by the year 2050. For this purpose, the country started in 2016 to hold renewable […]
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Virtually all of the mobile phones have an FM radio chip which would allow you to listen to local radio stations through your device for free. However the smart phone manufacturers do not have that chip activated, and make you to pay your telco for using the wireless data if you want to listen to […]
Seen in San Ángel Fluvial, a cafe-bar of the tourist city of Puerto Vallarta (Jalisco).
Starting in 2018, Germany will no longer operate hard coal mines. However, these abandoned mines could receive a new life to make a great contribution to the development of renewable energy in the country. They could start to store the excess of wind and solar power during the hours with high renewable production by pumping […]
During the first decades of the history of the electricity, Direct Current (DC) was the standard in the use of this kind of energy. However, this way to produce and deliver the electricity had a big problem: it was not easy to convert to higher or lower voltages. And then, in late 19th Century the […]
Millions of people worldwide watched the astonishing footage of the fireworks explosions in Tultepec, occurred at the San Pablito Market five days before Christmas Day. It was probably caused accidentally by accumulated gas from the fireworks, around 40 people were killed, dozens injured, and the market was reduced to a heap of rubble. This city […]
John B. Goodenough (age 94) is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, but he is broadly known as one of the inventorsm, along with Mizushima, Jones, and Wiseman, of the Li-ion rechargeable batteries which have helped the development of […]
Eagle Pass is a city of the State of Texas, with 26,000 inhabitants, placed just next to Mexican-US border. In fact, is virtually connected with the Mexican city of Piedras Negras, of 150,000 inhabitants. During the last years, retailers and shops of Eagle Pass and of all the Texan cities close to the border were […]
The popular U.S. magazine ‘Vanity Fair’ has decided to feature, on the cover of their Mexican edition of February, a big picture of bejeweled Melania Trump, the current First Lady of the United States, eating a bowl of diamonds and jewelry, at the same time that her husband has started one the worst crises in […]
Colima volcano, also known in Mexico as “Volcano of Fire”, is one of the potentially most dangerous volcanoes in this country and in the whole North America, and one of the most active volcanoes in the world. It has had more than 30 periods of eruptions since the 16th Century, including important eruptions in the […]