Low Tech Magazine

Following on from the Museum of Retro Technology I thought people might like the topics covered in this ezine. Lots of ideas ancient and some modern of a mostly low tech variety.

Be warned you can waste days on this site!

**LINK**

Worrying!

Particularly the first article up concerning 'low tech sewage treatment' - all human effluent discharging into fish ponds which provides nutrients for the fish to get nice and fat - which was how I caught 'amoebic dysentery' whilst up-sticks and living on 'bush tucker' in China.

Finished up with the local Shanghai medics saying I must have a brain tumour (suffered with unbelievable headaches/migraines ). After being medevaced back to UK via Vietnam (where they spotted it straight away) eventually got the condition cured (took the best part of a year ) - the cause was an obscene little parasite that lives in the gut of 80% of the locals but has no effect on them. I did manage to lose 4 stone in 9 weeks though!

Martin

Edited to get rid of the emoji parasite!

Edited By Oily Rag on 14/04/2021 16:56:51

Yes I must agree with you Martin, the fish treated sewage lake did not make any sense, however I have heard of reed beds and other bio-remediation projects which work very effectively.

Somewhere on the site there is an article on the Paris compressed air network, which if memory serves correct was only discontinued in the 1990's, 100 years of service is pretty good!

Ashoka hotel perhaps ?
DaveD