Appropriate technology designs. The following is a list of appropriate technology concepts - these are highly speculative and not actually "appropriate technology" in any commonly agreed sense.
The list only includes Completely emissionless technologies, and the technologies are especially designed to be used in villages/cities in the developed world. [1] The designs were proposed to be placed in a global AT database. Water supply[edit] I suggest adding a variant of the picture Water system with cistern , where the pressure vessel is removed and the cistern itself works as a pressure vessel.
MAKE: Magazine. Appropriate technology. Appropriate technology is an ideological movement that can create a great drive in society for appropriate things, this in turn can lead to inappropriate things such as sex and all the fun and good things in life being forgotten (and its manifestations) originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Dr.
Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher in his influential work, Small is Beautiful. Though the nuances of appropriate technology vary between fields and applications, it is generally recognized as encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally controlled.[1] Both Schumacher and many modern-day proponents of appropriate technology also emphasize the technology as people-centered.[2] Appropriate technology has been used to address issues in a wide range of fields.
The National Center for Appropriate Technology.