The Solar Powered Website in Spanish, French, and Other Languages
High-tech ProblemsDuring the last months we have been working on transforming Low-tech Magazine into a multilingual publication.
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How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
Low-tech SolutionsWe present our website’s energy and uptime data, calculate the embodied energy of our configuration, consider the optimal balance between sustainability and server uptime, and outline possible improvements.
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Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire
Obsolete TechnologyThe fire – which we have used in our homes for over 400,000 years – remains the most versatile and sustainable household technology that humanity has ever known.
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The Printed Website: Second Volume Out Now
High-Tech ProblemsThe second volume features a third of the web articles published in the earlier years, carefully selected for their continued relevance and interest today.
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Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence?
Low-tech SolutionsThe water and energy use of the mist shower is so low that the bathroom could be taken off-grid and off-pipe even in an urban context.
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How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
High-tech ProblemsIf we build them out of wood, large wind turbines could become a textbook example of the circular economy.
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Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine
Low-tech SolutionsA wooden rotor and tower greatly increase the net energy output over the lifetime of a small wind turbine.
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Low-tech Magazine: The Printed Website
Obsolete TechnologyRead Low-tech Magazine with no access to a computer, a power supply, or the internet.
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Heat your House with a Mechanical Windmill
Low-tech SolutionsGiven the right conditions, a mechanical windmill with an oversized brake system is a cheap, effective, and sustainable heating system.
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Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security
Low-tech solutionsTo improve energy security, we need to make infrastructures less reliable.
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How Circular is the Circular Economy?
High-tech problemsAs long as we keep accumulating raw materials, the closing of the material life cycle remains an illusion, even for materials that are, in principle, recyclable.
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How to Build a Low-tech Website?
Low-tech SolutionsOur new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.
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Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels?
Obsolete TechnologyFor centuries, the Netherlands were mainly dredged by hand, supplemented by animal power, wind power and tidal power. Could it be done again?