We have launched the second volume in a new series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
High speed rail is destroying the most valuable alternative to the airplane; the “low speed” rail network that has been in service for decades.
Estimates about the fuel efficiency of aircraft ignore the record of the pre-jet era.
If we would stuff people in the ‘Queen Mary 2’ like we fold passengers into airplane seats, the ship could transport more than 500,000 people