We have launched the second volume in a new series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
Estimates about the fuel efficiency of aircraft ignore the record of the pre-jet era.
We don’t need better batteries, we need better cars.
The only advantage that fossil-fuelled powered cranes have brought us, is a higher lifting speed
Time for a new age of sail.
If we cut the average speed of all vehicles by half, fuel consumption would decrease by a whopping 75 percent.
In spite of all the high-tech that has been squeezed into cars, the 2CV from 1949 is still more energy efficient than the smallest Citroen today.
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
From an ecological point of view, the strategy to move travellers from airplanes to high speed trains just doesn’t make sense.