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ARCHITECTURE

Heat your house with car tyres and earth : energy hungry America teaches the world how to build ecological houses.

Lego for Big Boys :  habitable shipping containers  promise cheap, modular and comfortable housing.

Tiles as a substitute for steel : the art of timbrel vaulting allowed for structures that today no architect would dare to build without steel reinforcements.

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ENERGY

Small windmills put to the test : size matters

Wind up your laptop : the human body can deliver enough power to drive computers, television sets and washing machines.

Urban windmills damage the environment : sad, but true

Viva Las Vegas : LEDs will raise energy consumption, not lower it

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The ugly side of solar panels : generating electricity with solar panels can also be a very bad idea.

Energy from the clouds : floating windmills?

Nuclear reactors, but no fuel : already in 10 to 15 years time, there will be a severe shortage of uranium.

Carbon sequestration : bury the idea, not the CO2

The world's factory hall : almost 30 percent of energy use in China comes from the production of export goods.

Build your own windmill : traditional micro-wind turbines are plagued by problems.

Leave the algae alone : the second generation of biofuels is not any better than the first

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HISTORY

Moonlight towers : light pollution in the 1800s

Reinventing the wheel : the story of the motorized monowheel.

Television in the 17th century : the panorama, the stereoscope, the magic lantern and the peepshow

Bring back the horses : real horse power could save agriculture

Email in the 18th century : the surprising speed of the optical telegraph.

Satellite navigation in the 18th century : who needs the GPS?

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The Museum of Old Techniques : historical alternatives to modern machinery

Invention & Technology Magazine : dedicated to the history of technology

Photoshop in the early 20th century : tall tale postcards

The acoustic sound mirror system : a low-tech forerunner of radar

Computing without electricity : fast and complicated calculations are a product of fossil fuels

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HIGH-TECH

Faster internet is impossible : internet users continually need faster connections to surf the web at the same speed.

The revival of the sneakernet : the internet versus a parcel service, a hiker, a car and a carrier pigeon

Is ecotech the new asbestos? What will remain of greentech, cleantech and ecotech if nanotechnology turns out to be harmful for people and the environment?

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The monster footprint of digital technology : how much energy do our gadgets really consume?

The digital oubliette : chances are small your children will be able to enjoy the family photo album when they grow up.

The right to 35 mobiles : the high energy consumption of the mobile phone network is due to the extremely short life span of the phones.

Information damages the environment : is an electronic newspaper more ecological than a paper newspaper?

Supercomputers reach their limits : the energy consumption of supercomputers is getting out of hand.

Second hand bits and bytes : where is the second hand market for digital products?

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TRANSPORTATION

The age of speed : how to reduce global fuel consumption by 75 percent

Who killed the electric grid? Fast-charging e-cars

Ecotech from the 1940s : if we really want more energy efficient cars, the Citroën 2CV shows us that we need not more, but less technology

Only idiots travel by train : why are trains so expensive?

Cargo ships, then and now : which one is fastest?

Racing on solar energy : if racing cars can drive on solar energy, then why do normal cars still need fossil fuels?

A world without trucks : underground freight networks

Cars on hot air : following the hype on hydrogen - meet the car on compressed air.

Green, slow air cargo : air freight could become the most eco-friendly mode of transport if speed is reduced.

Why the electric car has no (wireless) future : the e-car still faces the same fundamental problems as 170 years ago.

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Life without airplanes : can ocean liners save long distance travel and tourism?

Planes on wheels : from an ecological point of view, the strategy to move travellers from airplanes to high speed trains doesn't make sense.

The return of the sailing ship : considering the wind as an extra source of power, the fuel use of cargo ships could be reduced substantially. Could be.

Camping in the clouds : the zeppelin that never lands.

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WATER & TRASH

Why bottled water is good for the environment : water drinkers should be praised instead of criticized

Water eats energy : if we fail to reduce water use, we may safely double predictions on future energy consumption.

How to build a floating trash island : artificial floating islands can be used as a low-tech way to clean urban bodies of water.

Fishing for litter : the dustcarts of the sea

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GAMES & TOYS

Download, print, cut, fold, paste : an overview of the best paper models on the web

Gaming unplugged : the newest generation of board games is more fascinating than most computer games

Low-tech photography : turn your bedroom into a camera obscura

When rich women built houses : dolls' houses

Ball de bastons : a medieval weapon dance

Los Grumildos : mechanical puppets on the fringes of society

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