ISBN:
9781794711525
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179471152X
Language:
English
Pages:
616 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm
Edition:
First edition: 2019
Angaben zur Quelle:
2007-2012
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technology Social aspects
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High technology Social aspects
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Technological innovations Social aspects
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Sustainable living
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Sustainable development
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Sustainable engineering
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High technology ; Social aspects
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Sustainable development
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Sustainable engineering
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Sustainable living
;
Technological innovations ; Social aspects
;
Technology ; Social aspects
;
Technologie
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Innovation
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Soziologie
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Geschichte 2007-2012
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Neue Technologie
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Sozialer Fortschritt
Abstract:
Introduction --How to downsize a transport network: the Chinese wheelbarrow --Medieval smokestacks: fossil fuels in pre-industrial times --The bright future of solar thermal powered factories --The short history of early pedal powered machines --Pedal powered farms and factories: the forgotten future of the stationary bicycle --Bike powered electricity generators are not sustainable --Insulation: first the body, then the home --Aerial ropeways: automatic cargo transport for a bargain --Hand powered drilling tools and machines --Boat mills: water powered, floating factories --Recycling animal and human dung is the key to sustainable farming --The status quo of electric cars: better batteries, same range --The sky is the limit: human-powered cranes and lifting devices --Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank --Gas bag vehicles --Trolley canal boats --How (not) to resolve the energy crisis --Rings of fire: Hoffmann kilns --Wind powered factories: history (and future) of industrial windmills --Water powered cable trains --Get wired (again): trolleybuses and trolleytrucks --Electric road trains --The monster footprint of digital technology --Cargo ships, then and now --Moonlight towers: light pollution in the 1800s --Tiles as a substitute for steel: the art of the timbrel vault --A steam powered submarine: the Ictíneo --The Citroën 2CV: cleantech from the 1940s --Life without airplanes: from London to New York in 3 days and 12 hours --Bring back the horses --Satellite navigation in the eighteenth century --Email in the eighteenth century: the optical telegraph --Citations.
Abstract:
"Low-tech Magazine is an online platform refusing to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. A simple, sensible, but nevertheless controversial message; high-tech has become the idol of industrial societies. By contrast, Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices"--
Note:
"This book is printed on demand... Lulu.com works with printers all over the world, so that most copies are produce locally and and travel relatively short distances." -- p. 11
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Includes bibliographical references
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