We have launched the second volume in a new series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
It is surprisingly difficult to build a carbon neutral sailing ship. This is even more the case today, because our standards for safety, health, hygiene, comfort, and convenience have changed profoundly since the Age of Sail.
For centuries, the Netherlands were mainly dredged by hand, supplemented by animal power, wind power and tidal power. Could it be done again?
Boat mills, bridge mills and hanging mills were almost as widespread as windmills.
Only four years after the first experimental trolleybus, an ordinary steam canal boat was adapted to a trolleyboat.
If you want a revival of sail the high-tech way, you can have it.
Time for a new age of sail.
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
More than two centuries ago, it was possible to very accurately pinpoint your position on earth by means of ‘satellites’.