The scarcity of resources imposes "low tech"

Corentin de Chatelperron, the creator of the Gold of Bengal association, tinkers with a low-tech wind turbine to generate electricity on board his boat.

(Illustrative Image) Gold of Bengal

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

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Energy, matter, carbon, climate and biodiversity: planetary limits require us to rethink our relationship with technology.

Engineer Philippe Bihouix takes stock of the situation and the choices of companies that they impose.

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Philippe Bihouix is ​​the author of

The age of low-tech 

(Seuil, 2014) and 

Le Bonheur was pour demain, the reveries of a lonely engineer (

 Seuil, 2019) and deputy general manager of

the Arep group

Reports: 

Albania:

Depolluting plants sources of nickel by Louis Seiller

France:

Station E, a low-tech invention incubator and to receive

the regen box.

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