The Printed Website: Volume III & The Comments
The printed archives of Low-tech Magazine now amount to four volumes with a total of 2,398 pages and 709 images.
Wind Power
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.
Technology has become the idol of our society, but technological progress is—more often than not—aimed at solving problems caused by earlier technical inventions.
There is a lot of potential in past and often forgotten knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society.
The Printed Website: Second Volume Out Now
The second volume features a third of the web articles published in the earlier years, carefully selected for their continued relevance and interest today.
How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
If we build them out of wood, large wind turbines could become a textbook example of the circular economy.
Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine
A wooden rotor and tower greatly increase the net energy output over the lifetime of a small wind turbine.
Heat your House with a Mechanical Windmill
Given the right conditions, a mechanical windmill with an oversized brake system is a cheap, effective, and sustainable heating system.
How to Run the Economy on the Weather
Adjusting energy demand to supply would make switching to renewable energy much more realistic than it is today.
How (Not) to Run a Modern Society on Solar and Wind Power Alone
Matching supply to demand at all times makes renewable power production a complex, slow, expensive and unsustainable undertaking.
How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow
For being such a seemingly ordinary vehicle, the wheelbarrow has a surprisingly exciting history.
Wind Powered Factories: History (and Future) of Industrial Windmills
Would it make sense to revive the industrial windmill and again convert kinetic energy directly into mechanical energy?
Small Windmills Put to the Test
Wind power rules, but commercially available small windmills are a swindle.
Cargo Ships, Then and Now
Time for a new age of sail.