{"product_id":"low-tech-magazine-2007-2012","title":"Low-Tech Magazine 2007-2012","description":"\u003cp\u003eLow-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices. Sometimes, past technologies can be copied without any changes. More often, interesting possibilities arise when older technology is combined with new knowledge and new materials, or when past concepts and traditional knowledge are applied to modern technology.  Inspiration is also to be found in the so-called ÒdevelopingÓ world, where resource constraints often lead to inventive, low-tech solutions. Contains 268 images in black \u0026amp; white.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContents table: \u003cbr\u003e\nHow to downsize a transport network: the Chinese wheelbarrow\u003cbr\u003e\nMedieval smokestacks: fossil fuels in pre-industrial times\u003cbr\u003e\nThe bright future of solar powered factories\u003cbr\u003e\nPedal powered farms and factories: the forgotten future of the stationary bicycle\u003cbr\u003e\nBike powered electricity generators are not sustainable\u003cbr\u003e\nThe short history of early pedal powered machines\u003cbr\u003e\nInsulation: first the body, then the home\u003cbr\u003e\nAerial ropeways: automatic cargo transport for a bargain\u003cbr\u003e\nHand powered drilling tools and machines\u003cbr\u003e\nBoat mills: water powered, floating factories\u003cbr\u003e\nRecycling animal and human dung is the key to sustainable farming\u003cbr\u003e\nThe status quo of electric cars: better batteries, same range\u003cbr\u003e\nThe sky is the limit: human powered cranes and lifting devices\u003cbr\u003e\nWood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank\u003cbr\u003e\nGas bag vehicles\u003cbr\u003e\nTrolley canal boats\u003cbr\u003e\nHow (not) to resolve the energy crisis\u003cbr\u003e\nHoffmann kilns\u003cbr\u003e\nWind powered factories: history (and future) of industrial windmills\u003cbr\u003e\nWater powered cable trains\u003cbr\u003e\nGet wired (again): Trolleybuses and Trolleytrucks\u003cbr\u003e\nElectric road trains in Germany, 1901 Ð 1950\u003cbr\u003e\nThe monster footprint of digital technology\u003cbr\u003e\nCargo ships, then and now\u003cbr\u003e\nMoonlight towers: light pollution in the 1800s\u003cbr\u003e\nTiles as a substitute for steel: the art of the timbrel vault\u003cbr\u003e\nA steam powered submarine: the Ict’neo\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Citroen 2CV: cleantech from the 1940s\u003cbr\u003e\nLife without airplanes: from London to New York in 3 days and 12 hours\u003cbr\u003e\nSatellite navigation in the 18th century\u003cbr\u003e\nEmail in the 18th century: the optical telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kris De Decker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43997883236513,"sku":"9781794711525","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1z742pek-front-shortedge-384_4bda1eb7-74f4-4960-b507-24a45b13c700.jpg?v=1747595653","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/low-tech-magazine-2007-2012","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}