Musician Germán Canyelles uses Low-tech Magazine’s bike generator to power his electric guitar. The guitar amplifier and pedals are plugged into an inverter connected to the 12V circuit of the bike generator. No batteries are used.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_T0gMLLmPPw…
Getting the solar web team in one place at the same time is a challenge, but this is the closest we got in Barcelona last week. From < to > Kris De Decker, Roel Roscam Abbing, Marie Otsuka, and Marie Verdeil. Kathy Vanhout is missing. We will soon present the fruits of our work.
Cycling is the most sustainable form of transportation, but the bicycle is becoming increasingly damaging to the environment. The energy and material used for its production go up while its life expectancy decreases.
The Ondioline is an electronic musical instrument invented by Georges Jenny in France in the early 1940s and developed through a number of different models until his death in 1975. https://notechmagazine.com/2022/10/the-ondioline.html…
The ‘Solar Metal Smelter’ makes metal melt. Cast in a sand mould, the hot substance is transformed into machine parts for a foot-driven grinder in an off-grid practice. https://jelleseegers.com
is someone I just found on YouTube while looking at the feasibility of bicycle powered air compressors.
He's a genius and should be more well known in the
I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".
I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
Humans are problem solvers. We combine ideas + energy + materials to create technology. But what sort of tech will be appropriate in a lower energy future? Joining me today to unpack this question is inventor and author of
A salsabil or shardiwan is an ancient fountain designed to provide as much surface area as possible to a water stream in order to conjure natural passive air conditioning from evaporative cooling. Well designed it can lower the indoor temperature by over 15°C during hot summers.