A pedal blender, a mini wind turbine, a Norwegian pot, a solar oven… These everyday objects were created by Alizée and Yoann.
This couple develops all these systems in their workshop in Ariège: "the idea is to be more aware of our energy consumption and aim to reduce it", explains Alizée.
"But bearing in mind that 'low-tech' systems will never have the efficiency of electric machines, that they will not replace them".
Invent, test, replicate
Their research began in a truck, which became their "house on wheels", where they experimented with all their constructions.
“For four years, it was our full-time living space,” says Alizée.
“There are lots of things that we made on the road and that we suddenly left in places where we passed.
We call it “action research”, explains Yoann, which consists of discovering something, testing it and then replicating it”.
OUR “ENERGY TRANSITION” FILE
Their goal is not to sell their creations but rather to "give the keys" to consumers so that they can build these "low-tech" objects themselves: "The objective of compiling a catalog is to to experiment, not necessarily to tend towards autonomy or the reduction of a single pole but to be able to envisage a globality.
What interests us is to cover all our areas of dependency,” concludes Yoann.
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