It's not windy
The low-tech: what if progress changed sides?
Audio 48:30
Corentin de Chatelperron, the creator of the Gold of Bengal association, tinkers with a low-tech wind turbine to produce electricity on board his boat.
Gold of Bengal
By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
Making a computer from electronic waste, a wind turbine or a solar panel with recycled materials, is the principle of low-tech or low technologies.
Long cataloged by industrialists and investors as nice inventions with no future, low-tech is now being looked at closely and seriously, because doing better with less responds to the ecological crisis we are experiencing.
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Guests:
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Corentin de Chatelperron,
co-founder of
the Low tech lab association
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Philippe Bihouix,
engineer, managing director of
AREP
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Gildas Guiella,
executive director of
Wakatlab
in six cities in Burkina Faso
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Médard Agbayazon,
president of
Blolab
in Cotonou and Porto Novo in Benin
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Julie Mittelmann,
engineer and coordinator of the “Low-tech solutions at the service of territorial sobriety” project at the Low tech lab.
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