Low-tech Magazine was born in 2007 and has seen minimal changes ever since. Because a website redesign was long overdue — and because we try to practice what we preach — we decided to build a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered version of Low-tech Magazine. The new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.
The summers are great just due to the increased number of daylight hours. I used to live in Fairbanks and that would have been ideal, but the summers up there are plagued with wildfire smoke which greatly affects solar potential.
Yeah I’ll have to look into the engineering of the seismic stations. I reckon their panels are all placed in the perfect spots. I’m just unsure at the moment what kind of living accommodations I’m going to have up there.