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Interesting possibilities arise when you combine old technology with new knowledge and new materials, or when you apply old concepts and traditional knowledge to modern technology.

  • March 2022
    How to Build a Bike Generator with Control Panel
  • December 2021
    The Printed Website: Volume III & The Comments
  • October 2021
    How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel?
  • May 2021
    How to Design a Sailing Ship for the 21st Century?
  • May 2020
    Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels?
  • January 2020
    How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
  • October 2019
    Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence?
  • June 2019
    Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine
  • February 2019
    Heat your House with a Mechanical Windmill
  • December 2018
    Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security
  • September 2018
    How to Build a Low-tech Website?
  • May 2018
    Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage
  • January 2018
    How Much Energy Do We Need?
  • September 2017
    How to Run the Economy on the Weather
  • May 2017
    Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone?
  • February 2017
    Vietnam’s Low-tech Food System Takes Advantage of Decay
  • November 2016
    Why the Office Needs a Typewriter Revolution
  • May 2016
    How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid
  • April 2016
    Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power?
  • December 2015
    Reinventing the Greenhouse
  • October 2015
    How to Build a Low-tech Internet
  • October 2015
    The 4G Mobile Internet That’s Already There
  • September 2014
    The Revenge of the Circulating Fan
  • July 2014
    If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots?
  • May 2014
    Modular Cargo Cycles
  • November 2013
    Heat Your Clothes, Not Your House
  • August 2013
    Back to Basics: Direct Hydropower
  • December 2012
    How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware
  • October 2012
    Electric Velomobiles: as Fast and Comfortable as Automobiles, but 80 times more Efficient
  • September 2012
    Cargo Cyclists Replace Truck Drivers on European City Streets
  • March 2012
    The Solar Envelope: How to Heat and Cool Cities without Fossil Fuels
  • July 2011
    The Bright Future of Solar Thermal Powered Factories
  • May 2011
    Pedal Powered Farms and Factories: The Forgotten Future of the Stationary Bicycle
  • February 2011
    Insulation: First the Body, Then the Home
  • September 2010
    The Velomobile: High-tech Bike or Low-tech Car?
  • September 2010
    Recycling Animal and Human Dung is the Key to Sustainable Farming
  • October 2009
    How to make everything yourself - online low-tech resources
  • July 2009
    Get Wired (Again): Trolleybuses and Trolleytrucks
  • April 2009
    Cargo Ships, Then and Now
  • December 2008
    Sunbathing in the Living Room: Oven Stoves and Heat Walls
  • April 2008
    Bring Back the Horses
  • December 2007
    Heat your House with Car Tyres and Earth

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