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
1 min
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.
Publicity
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:
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Albania:
Depolluting plants sources of nickel by Louis Seiller
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France:
Station E, a low-tech invention incubator and to receive
the regen box.
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