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People made fire by hand for many thousands of years. We improved the energy efficiency of the process by letting the legs do the work
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Building and Monitoring a SolarPowered Web Server (thesis): research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/hand
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Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Design Constraints in Computational Culture: bleu255.com/~aymeric/dump/
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More about the bike generator here: lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-to
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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.
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What happens when you try to run a solar powered website in the Netherlands? "Only with a 740 Watt rated solar panel setup was I able to power my Raspberry Pi through the winter." louwrentius.com/i-made-my-blog
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Traditional fishing gears of the Bodo tribes in North East India. repository.oceanbestpractices.org/bitstream/hand
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Here's the presentation we did about the work in progress:
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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.
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Tumplines allow one to carry heavier weights over larger distances without getting fatigued.
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This London pedestrian bridge is entirely manual, with a hand crank to open it for boat traffic. thomasrandallpage.com/Cody-Dock-Roll
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The complete solar web team is in Barcelona to continue work on the project. Tomorrow we do a presentation and Q&A at .
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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.
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Low-Tech Solutions for Complex Demands: An Interview with Architect Henry Glogau dlvr.it/SgsvNk
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Punkism: the ideology (-ism) of punk.
And a hundred and nineteen things a punkist should know.
[by David Janzi]
punk.ist
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Loads of comments on this fridge at hackernews: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=334636
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Winne Clement made and recorded these huge Overtone flutes for The soundtrack of the Movie ‘The Whale’ by Darren Aronofsky. youtube.com/watch?v=BmgQ31
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"My chest fridge (Vestfrost freezer turned into a fridge) consumes about 0.1 kWh a day."
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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. notechmagazine.com/2022/10/the-on
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Podcast Radio New Zealand
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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. jelleseegers.com
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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 appropriate technology circles.
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DIY manual for simple wooden bike trolley, no welding required wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Simple_wo
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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⬇
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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 - Kris DeDecker
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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.
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"This research indicates the technical capabilities of using a 40 cm2 Fresnel lens to heat, melt and vitrify a variety of materials and suggests future applications of this technology including the ability to digitise the process". notechmagazine.com/2022/08/solar-
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“The complexity of our current IT systems has made them difficult to recover,”
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Brazilian “mini-publisher” Casatrês has made a beautiful zine which includes three articles from Low-tech Magazine, translated into Portuguese. It is for sale on their website: casatreseditora.art.br/produto/proble
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Does the circular economy fuel the throwaway society? "We find that a circular use of resources, which is desirable, incentivizes a shorter use of resources, which is undesirable".
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Coming Sunday we demonstrate several low-tech prototypes in Barcelona in collaboration with Slow Lab. The event runs on human or solar power depending on the weather. Sign up here: vivetix.com/entradas-brunc
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