DIY Culture: Repair and reuse a smartphone

The DIY or Do It Yourself culture is a great way to fight against the programmed or built-in obsolesce. I have owned this phone for 4 years; since then I have kept it with me almost everywhere. This Technology has helped me to reduce wasted time in routine tasks like doing lines in the bank. This is my second battery replacement, two years ago I embrace the international battery replacement program of Apple. At that moment I realize that I will be able to keep my phone for one more year. This movement was incredible because I could start to…

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Hub de innovación tecnológica: Eficiencia energética y Energías Renovables

Step by step, we should lead the science from the university labs to the marketplace. There will be no opportunities if you don't seek them.  Solar Semiconductors Morelos will attend this meeting looking for strategic partners inside the industry and technical collaboration with GIZ and the  Queretaro innovators. References: CONNEC  Project Queretaro Energy Cluster  Licore - Digital Power Solutions SEDESU - Secretary of sustainable development 

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Talking about strategies for high efficiency kesterite solar cells

Dr. Edgardo A. Saucedo visits BUAP after the MRS congress in Cancun, Mexico and gives us a motivational talk about kesterites PV technology. He is the leader of the Solar Energy Materials and Systems Group at IREC and leads the European STARCELL project too. Kesterites are a promising PV material, it's metal elements, Copper, Zinc, and Tin are abundant on earth crust. This material owns a tetragonal lattice similar to commercial PV technology. As Dr. Saucedo said, they come from the royal family of photovoltaics. Kesterites comes from the royal family of photovoltaics Source: PV-Education Crystal structure of the royal family of…

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