Low-tech Solutions

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.

Get Wired (Again): Trolleybuses and Trolleytrucks

Trolleybuses and trolleytrucks have all the advantages of electric cars – and none of their drawbacks.

July 10, 2009

Sailing at the Touch of a Button

If you want a revival of sail the high-tech way, you can have it.

April 13, 2009

Cargo Ships, Then and Now

Time for a new age of sail.

April 12, 2009

Camping in the clouds: the Aeromodeller II

The gipsy zeppelin baseship of Lieven Standaert generates its own energy, never has to land, and is equipped with a sun terrace where you can have a coffee.

February 9, 2009

Sunbathing in the Living Room: Oven Stoves and Heat Walls

Oven stoves are greener, more efficient, healthier, safer and cosier than all modern heating systems. Why are they gone and how do we get them back?

December 5, 2008

How to Build a Floating Trash Island

Artificial floating islands can be used to clean urban bodies of water. Any polluted canal, river, estuary, lake in a city park, or storm water retention pond would benefit from a floating island.

November 25, 2008

The Age of Speed: How to Reduce Global Fuel Consumption by 75 Percent

If we cut the average speed of all vehicles by half, fuel consumption would decrease by a whopping 75 percent.

September 11, 2008

Bring Back the Horses

Replacing tractors with real horse power could be the revolution that agriculture needs.

April 18, 2008

Download, print, fold, paste

Downloading cars, houses and aeroplanes is no science fiction.

February 18, 2008

Gaming unplugged

The newest generation of board games is more fascinating than most computer games.

January 11, 2008

Heat your House with Car Tyres and Earth

Energy hungry America teaches the world how to build ecological houses.

December 29, 2007