Handicap Access

They have added a handicap access ramp at the Palacio Municipal. It was supposed to be in place on the 12th of November. When we were there on the 15th, sure enough it was in place. According to the newspaper, El Vigia, it was installed at a cost of 65 thousand pesos. It is on the left side entrance to the building. The building is designated as historic by the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
We went out to San Carlos the other day, so on our way by I took a picture of the wind powered generator. It wasn't turning when we went into town; but on our way out it was working.

Wind Generated Power

On November 19th the first wind generated electrical tower was put into use in Guaymas. According to La Voz del Puerto newspaper, Guaymas is the first municipality to produce their own wind power. This tower will produce 6 kilowatts and moves with winds of 12 meters per second, at a cost of 600 thousand pesos. They are looking at an investment of 1 million 400 thousand pesos, for equipment and research to be undertaken over a period of nine months.
It will illuminate some 60 lights (2 miles of a boulevard) and is part of a bigger wind farm project which will produce 10 megawatts per year and cost 10 million dollars. With this project, the municipality would be self-sufficient in energy for lighting and the cost would be paid in five years, given that currently the township spends two million dollars a year to cover the cost of the electricity that it pays to CFE for street lighting , Plazas and other public spaces.
Involved in the project, in addition to UNISON, the city, the Institute of Technology Monterrey and the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT).
The tower is located between kilometers 1 and 2 on the scenic boulevard in San Carlos, and is equipped with a generator (Proven), of English origin but bought in South Africa.
The next step will be the location of three points on which to locate an equal number of rigs to 30, 40 and 50 meters in height, to monitor the behavior of the air, reported Dr. Roman Miguel Moreno, director of the Center for Energy Saving of the Technological Institute of Monterrey. This task will take at least one year and will serve to locate the exact sites where they would create so-called "wind farms", which would give the town "the cheapest energy in the world," said the specialist.