Nov 20, 2023: Kris De Decker, founder, Low-Tech Magazine
Show Notes
• Low-tech Magazine, a solar-powered website
• krisdedecker.org, Kris De Decker’s site
• Human Power Plant
• What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows? (Low-tech Magazine, Nov 23, 2022)
• How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator (Low-Tech Magazine, March 6, 2022): “We built a pedal-powered generator and controller, which is practical to use as an energy source and exercise machine in a household – and which you can integrate into a solar PV system.”
• Pigeons are still (sometimes) faster than your internet (Washington Post, Nov 10, 2023): “Even in areas with high-speed internet, pigeons can — and have — beat the internet with large-enough data. Earlier this year, YouTuber and software developer Jeff Geerling strapped 3 terabytes’ worth of flash drives onto a pigeon. The pigeon won against his super-fast gigabit fiber internet.”
• krisdedecker.org, Kris De Decker’s site
• Human Power Plant
• What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows? (Low-tech Magazine, Nov 23, 2022)
• How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator (Low-Tech Magazine, March 6, 2022): “We built a pedal-powered generator and controller, which is practical to use as an energy source and exercise machine in a household – and which you can integrate into a solar PV system.”
• Pigeons are still (sometimes) faster than your internet (Washington Post, Nov 10, 2023): “Even in areas with high-speed internet, pigeons can — and have — beat the internet with large-enough data. Earlier this year, YouTuber and software developer Jeff Geerling strapped 3 terabytes’ worth of flash drives onto a pigeon. The pigeon won against his super-fast gigabit fiber internet.”
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