Low Tech Magazine

[jon hill 3Participant @jonhill3]

[jon hill 3Participant @jonhill3]

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**

[Oily RagParticipant @oilyrag]

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

[jon hill 3Participant @jonhill3]

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!

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

was on a UN sponsored teaching course in Delhi in mid 1970s – several teachers drawn from several companies – we were put up at the nominally best hotel in Delhi – one French teacher went down with amoebic dysentery – all the other teachers (inc myself) other than one Swede went down with dysentery – his method was to use an imported bottle of gin to disinfect everything; the cause was probably food supplied at the teaching institute some miles outside of Delhi.

[MeunierParticipant @meunier]

Posted by Frances IoM on 14/04/2021 22:29:10:
/… we were put up at the nominally best hotel in Delhi -…/

Ashoka hotel perhaps ?
DaveD

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

It could be, the name sounds very familiar – it was near 50 years and in the days of exchangeable non-exchangeable rupees – I know when I looked at the hotel much later it truly was upmarket. Staying there for a month or so we had a wager at breakfast as to how many of the American tourists would make it down to breakfast on each day of that group’s stay. We had strict instructions from the UN on what to eat (tandoori bread chicken was generally safe) + drink – CocaCola out of the bottle no ice though this became difficult to obtain as the Indian Gov forced thru local production of a supposed equivalent – alcohol being somewhat difficult to obtain + the taste of pasteurised wine was extremely unpleasant! – in the adjoining state we needed to declare ourselves alcoholics to obtain it!) our major problem was the local ‘feasts’ arranged at the newly opened training institute for the local politician which we were expected to attend.

It was much safer a year or so later when I went back for a course + stayed in a somewhat down market establishment that catered for visiting academics.

I gather everything has now changed!

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