 all right are we going i think we're going okay this week we're going to learn what an idiot check is and i call it an idiot check because it's something i usually do on myself and i don't care if i call myself an idiot so the name stuck it's an idiot check but you could also call it like a uh a rough estimate a plausibility check a plausibility check is probably a a good i mean there's probably a more a more reasonable name for this thing but um so like in the world today particularly with the internet we're bombarded with all this information like all the time right we're just getting tons of information and even before the internet started you know you talk to people you're always hearing facts and figures from them and ideas and people are always saying stuff you're always getting information right and in the world today there's a lot of bad information you know there's a lot of there's a lot of stupid stuff so you kind of you kind of got to figure out a way of filtering through the nonsense to figure out if if what someone's saying is even plausible or if to or to figure out of some idea that you've come up with in in in your head is even reasonable um so this is this is what i perform an idiot check and an idiot check is basically a very rough like order of magnitude type estimation to try to find out like a rough answer of something like for anyone who doesn't know what an order of magnitude is an order of magnitude is like one ten hundred thousand ten thousand those are different orders of magnitude right so someone asked you you man how much does a pack of bubblegum cost and you're like i don't know and they say okay just give me a rough order of magnitude like is it a dollar is it ten dollars it is a hundred okay okay it's like a dollar it's somewhere around a dollar that's the order of magnitude right and now say you want to say someone comes up and says hey man what's more expensive a car or a bubblegum pack you don't have to sit there and say well what car what what model is it what make and uh what what kind of bubblegum no because you can already in your head very quickly do a rough order of magnitude estimation cars are like ten thousand dollars ish maybe even a hundred thousand ten thousand ish but pack of bubblegum is like one dollar so there so there's several order of magnitude several orders of magnitude separate so you can confidently say that pretty much generally speaking in most in the large large majority of circumstances a car will be more expensive than a pack of bubblegum regardless of the car regardless of the pack of bubblegum right so that's the that's the kind of uh like that's the basic idea of this this idiot check and i do these constantly throughout the day you know anytime i hear any kind of information or uh anytime i'm like digging or doing something where i don't really need my brain that much i'll remember things information i got during the day or or ideas that i had during the day where i was like who this might work or that might be a thing and then i'll just kind of run an idiot check real quick to see if it's even plausible now for something like a car versus a pack of bubblegum the idiot check just gives you the quick answer okay this one's more expensive than that one but if things are closer like say you're comparing a car versus a boat and you do your idiot check and you quickly come up with the order of magnitude well car is about ten thousand dollars and a boat's about ten thousand dollars okay now now we need more information but the idiot check will tell you kind of if you need more information right now what do you do when you need to do an idiot check on something you don't actually have the information well that's that's when this uh this order of magnitude calculation comes in really really handy it's really valuable for situations where you're missing so much of the information that you can't you can't make any kind of reasonable estimation like you can't make a good guess you know so you can run run an idiot check just to see if like the sun is anywhere near the size of the moon okay they're totally different sizes and you know one's bigger than the other so i'm going to give you an example i'm going to run through one right now i'm going to give you an example of one of these idiot checks and i haven't looked up any of the information for this and i'm actually lacking tons of information like i'm missing so much information on this and i'm just going to do a calculation that's going to be full of errors and estimations and guesses but i should be able to at least get some kind of rough order of magnitude estimation of the if these things are close to each other or far apart from each other so here's the thing last week i made a video about driving to town in my solar boat and i read i read a few of the comments which i occasionally do anyway one guy said something to the effect of i'm not sure if jamie is saving as much energy by using solar panels as he's wait how is it i'm not sure if jamie's saving as much energy by not using gasoline as as he is using by using solar panels and batteries so basically does it actually cost more energy to use solar panels and batteries to manufacture those so you can use them does he use more energy to do that than it does to just drive around and gasoline so and and the guy even said you know i don't really know like i don't really know the answer here but i'm just just you know thinking you know what is actually better energy wise the solar panels and the batteries because it takes a fair amount of stuff to manufacture that right or the gasoline and it does also take something to manufacture the gasoline and i don't know any of the details how much it costs to you know pull the gasoline out of the out of the earth and refine it and all this stuff like i have a rough idea but i don't have any any numbers for that and i don't know how much energy it actually takes to produce a solar panel or a lithium iron phosphate battery like i'm missing so many pieces of information here so i can't actually look up the numbers to say okay this is better or that's better right but i read that before i went on my trip and then when i went on my trip i was just driving along it was like hey let me think for a second even without getting any more information can i make some kind of estimate about what's better solar panels and batteries versus the gasoline okay so what pieces of information do i have well first i need to i have two values i need to compare one is how much gasoline i'm not using right how much gasoline i'm saving by using solar panels and and batteries and i have to compare that to how much energy it uses to make the solar panels and the batteries like how much energy am i saving versus how much energy am i using right so one of those is pretty easy to do i can just say okay let me use the example of my my biggest least efficient boat and i always i always bias things against the answer that i want because time you do one of these estimations if you get to the end and you get the answer you want you may think back oh did i just bias myself a whole bunch of times to get the answer i want so it's always important to bias against the answer you want so anyway so i'll pick my biggest boat and would use that as as the solar powered boat now say i take and i'm not i'm just going to pretend that that's the only boat i'm driving and i won't drive any other boats because i'm not it's going to get too complicated otherwise okay so let's say i just drive my biggest slowest least efficient boat and i go to town maybe every every two or three weeks maybe 25 trips in a year right and i'm going to use trips to town as my measure because i know how many gallons gasoline that uses on you know an average boat so let's say i do 25 trips to town and back in a year and that probably constitutes maybe half of my total driving so maybe maybe my total driving in my solar boat is like 50 trips to town and back okay now kind of an average gasoline boat uses about 10 gallons of gasoline to go from this area to town and back and i know boats that can do it for less and boats that can do it for more but this is a rough estimate we're looking for right so 50 trips 10 gallons each 500 gallons of gasoline per year so that's roughly so one value i could get pretty easily roughly i'm not using 500 gallons of gasoline per year oh i should also mention when i'm not explaining all this i can do it my head like like a couple seconds but i'm going through the whole thing so by driving my solar boat i'm not using 500 gallons of gasoline per year okay let's put that aside and let's figure out how much it actually costs to produce these solar panels and these batteries well i have i have like no information on this right however i know how much a solar panel costs and i know roughly how much a gallon of gasoline costs so a gallon of gasoline is on the order of like five bucks yesh and one of these solar panels is about 200 dollars right so i can compare them in some way and if i'm comparing like the consumer level price to a consumer level price then a whole bunch of other things will cancel out right you know there's going to be different profit margins and stuff like that but it's going to be in the same order of magnitude anyway right so let's say we're just going to use consumer level prices to get a rough estimate of what it takes to build one of these things because they're not going to sell a 200 solar panel if it if it costs like 40 000 dollars worth of energy to make it right and they're not going to sell gasoline for five dollars if it costs like 10 000 dollars to produce it like there's going to be some correlation right so let's say to produce one of these solar panels with gasoline with no profit again going with like you know worst-case scenario biasing against the answer i want let's say we use 200 gallon 200 dollars worth of gasoline to produce a 200 solar panel which is not going to be correct but it's going to be probably in the right rough range right so that would be 40 gallons of gasoline but yeah hold on five dollars yeah five times 40 right so 40 40 gallons of gasoline roughly makes one of these solar panels now i have six of these solar panels on the boat so that would be like 240 gallons of gasoline super rough error filled estimate so that covers the solar panels 240 gallons of gasoline now we've got two i have two lithium iron phosphate batteries on there and those cost 500 dollars a piece well each one is a hundred times the price of one gallon of gasoline so let's say it takes somewhere on the order of 100 gallons of gasoline to make one of those and i have two of them so that's 200 gallons of gasoline so those 200 gallons of gasoline plus the 240 for the solar panel adds up to 440 gallons of gasoline and i think that's probably a high estimate but i don't actually know i don't have any actual numbers but let's say it takes 440 gallons of gasoline to produce the solar panels and batteries on my boat right well what was the comparison of how much i'm saving so i have to put it put an initial investment of about 440 gallons of gasoline and every year i'm saving 500 the calculation we did earlier so i'm just gonna say 504 440 they're in the same rough magnitude so i'm just gonna say it's kind of even so after one year i'm probably somewhere around breaking even in terms of the energy savings and energy usage i'm i'm getting from using the solar panels and batteries so if my boat lasts one year i should be breaking even however if my boat can last 10 years then the solar panels and batteries will be 10 times better one order of night one full order of magnitude better and solar panels and the batteries should all last more than 10 years i don't know how much more but i mean the solar panels should last 20 30 40 50 i don't know it doesn't matter because once it gets past 10 years there's a full order of magnitude difference one is 10 times better than the other so at that point i can say all right even with my error filled mess of estimation one has come out to be 10 times more than the other so i can say with a fairly high degree of confidence the solar panels and batteries beat the crap out of the gasoline now there are a bunch of other things that we could look into here someone could say yeah your boat isn't that fast well i could have used my faster boat which goes twice as fast on half as many solar panels and half as many batteries but let's put that aside for a minute and let's acknowledge that there's also a difference in lifestyle between the gas motor and an electric motor because on a gas motor on a gas boat you get in the boat the guy starts up the motor or you start up the motor whoever starts up the motor and it goes the entire time you're going now let's put aside the the fumes and all that but just this sound is the whole time so you can't have a conversation with someone i mean i've done it on a boat where you're screaming as loud as you can at someone right beside you and you're like what what so basically when you get in a in a gasoline motor boat you're just sitting there waiting to get to where you're going so you can get out of this noisy just like however in my electric boat in my solar power electric boat i can have a completely normal conversation with someone i can chill on my boat while i'm driving i can have a conversation with someone beside me i could pull up my camera and make a video even if i'm near the motor i can still talk to people in a normal voice and then i have to talk a little bit louder because i'm sitting right right beside the motor but if i even get a little bit away from the motor like you could just we could just whisper totally different experience um what else oh another thing a uh and maybe i should have said this first because this was actually the first thing i thought of an electric motor is about and roughly is roughly 90 efficient that means it uses 90 of the energy that goes into it to do what it's doing right a gasoline motor it's like 25 percent efficient that means it's only using 25 percent ish of the energy that comes into it to actually push the boat the rest is just just being wasted so the gasoline motor is wasting somewhere around 75 somewhere around three quarters of the energy that's coming into it whereas the the electric motor is is using like 90 percent it's only wasting like 10 percent of the energy and of course these numbers depends on the motor blah blah but it's it's a huge difference um so yeah i think i can fairly confidently say this the electric solar boat beats the crap out of out of a gasoline boat and uh just on a personal note i would also say i i have much more enjoyment in my in my boat than in a gasoline boat and i love that i don't have to go get gas oh that's such a cool thing like people go way faster in their in their gas boat but then they gotta stop for gas and waste like 20 30 minutes you know depending on how many people are there and how motivated the guy at the gas pump is who knows how long it's gonna take but anyway so i'm wondering does anyone have any actual um actual numbers on that like does any has anyone actually looked it up to find out how much energy goes into making a solar panel and a battery versus you know gasoline you would you would just use or or even count i mean you still have to count the uh the cold you know the mining and the refining of the gasoline which i think is something people forget about a lot the gasoline doesn't just come out of the ground like with fairies and you know just turn itself into gasoline you gotta you gotta work to get it and you gotta turn it into gasoline it's not just like but anyway has anyone has anyone actually done done the numbers on that i would be kind of interested to see if my just idiot check is anywhere near the mark all right oh idiot check checking in yellow let me turn up my uh my brightness a little ah there we go uh sounds intriguing hi from the uk dean the coder what's up man hi jamie hi from cold michigan oh in case anyone doesn't know what's going on here i always do a little monologue at the beginning of these and then i start reading comments and so i'm always a little bit behind at the beginning and then i basically read comments until i catch up which takes anywhere from i don't know half an hour to two hours ken what's up hey jamie have you treated that lumber with any termite spray no i haven't yet however i do have hold on a second i'll show you what i got okay what i think i'm gonna do is i'm gonna take this stuff mix it with some water and then spray the wood with it at least that's what that's my plan and um the downside of this stuff is that it can wash off the wood but my wood's inside it it should be fine and this stuff's like not not toxic or anything which is why i want to use this instead of like some you know i don't want to paint something on the wood that my three-year-old is gonna like put her mouth on or whatever uh this this should be okay i mean you wouldn't want to eat it but like you can wash you know you can put borax in your laundry and wash your clothes with it and wear it and it's all right uh so yeah i think i'm gonna and i got i got one of those like uh like pump sprayer things you go and then has a little wand and you so i'm gonna mix that some some of that with some water put it in there and spray it all over the wood and i think that'll be good although if anyone has any suggestions i haven't done anything yet all right let's see just curious i love the progress your house looks huge what thanks would you say it's the size of your banana building in vermont i know this is bigger than the banana building um yeah this is definitely bigger than the banana building i don't remember the exact dimensions of the banana building but you could what were the dimensions of that thing i think i think from my front door to my back door is actually longer than the banana building in vermont and then the width of the banana building in way less and the heights way less do that you could fit the i don't know you probably fit three banana buildings in here um although i i'd have to double check that because i don't remember the details i could be remembering the size is wrong i haven't been there in like 10 years you know off-grid homestead i like your name man hi jamie i'm the guy who moved off grid island like you it's awesome thanks for the inspiration well you're very welcome man i hope i hope things are going well on your island wait where is your island did i think you told me that like last week or something or the week before i don't know might be a different person you're looking ripped brawl thanks man i've been doing lots of well this stuff up here you know you got all the all the joists up all the joists um what was it yesterday i got the last few up i had to go to the jungle and did a few more boards and you know cut them on the lumberbill and then cut them to length and i got all the joists up so now i'm just uh dragging floorboards out of the jungle now today i went with my kids so i only i only got like eight boards um but i usually i usually you know basically get i don't know i usually get like two or three times that uh but since i had my kids with me i didn't want to i don't know i didn't want to spend too long in the jungle with them they'd get bored and start wandering into some snake pit or something i don't know anyway the the floor is going really well uh how is everyone mr landville what's up bud hall says estimate square foot of your home structure okay uh well i can just i can just tell you the dimensions of it from the okay it's a circle first of all uh like a yeah the first floor and the second floor and the third floor are all circles 40 well i think it's 41 but let's just say 40 feet in diameter um so it's 40 times pi no 20 well you can figure it out wait it's i don't know it's like 1300 square feet each floor for the first three floors and then the fourth floor is a little it's smaller it's definitely smaller but i'm not actually putting in a fourth floor so the third floor is where the domed roof starts but there is there is space that i could put a fourth floor halfway up that dome group so it gets smaller but i'm going to leave a super high ceiling up there for basketball and volleyball gymnastics stuff like that so yeah the floors i'm actually putting in it's 13 times three like 5000 square feet fish um but yeah i could definitely put another floor that would be maybe let's see like another thousand so maybe if i if i put in all floors like 6000 square feet of floor space um but yeah i'm not putting in a fourth floor and then my second floor i'm only i'm only putting like around the outside so it goes from the outer wall to like i don't know few meters in and then the middle is going to be open although i think there's going to be a bridge through the middle but you'll see it all it'll make sense i was trying to figure out where to put the stairs today to get to the second floor there's already a rope you can climb to get to the second floor and you know there's a ladder over there but i want to put some stairs somewhere i'm not sure where to put them yet my one of my daughters said i should put them in her room because i said if i put them in one of your rooms then you get the first room upstairs and she was like oh put it in my room put it in my room so i don't know um yeah i saw that comment was about to reply when i saw that this when i saw that this was an a i bought not a human check the username i don't care if it's any i bought her human uh you have to do an a i bought check now as well ah it doesn't matter hi jay well that's that's actually good that it's an a i bought now i don't have to worry about uh someone feeling insulted that i call this an idiot check and i ran it on their information because i was kind of concerned about that i was like maybe i should change the name because i call it an idiot check because usually i like i'm doing the idiot check to check if i'm being an idiot it's not to check if other people are being it this is mostly to check if i'm being an idiot because whenever i have an idea i run an idiot check um so i call it an idiot check because i don't care if i call myself an idiot anyway um yeah if it's an ai then i won't worry about having insulted the ai oh hi jay we love it all will the spider 3d 3d print become available at any any time yes oh so uh when i got the 3d printer i started making this uh let me go get it hold on it's right over here yeah i started making i started making this thing which has come out spectacular and i mostly was making this just to test out my 3d printer and get back into making stuff and yeah i got i got it working but it limps a little bit there's like uh like two parts i have to change just to change the geometry of the way the legs to move a little bit um but i've already printed those parts out they've been sitting on my desk for like the last three weeks so i i just have to swap those parts out and check the walking is straightened out um but yeah i'm i'm definitely going to going to put all the files for that uh probably just on my thingiverse thing um it's a lot of files though and when i was making that i edited a bunch of files so i'm gonna have to go through and make sure i use all the the most recent like the updated ones uh but yes i will definitely put that um online the reason i haven't done it yet is because while i was putting that together i started getting inspired to do all these other stuff so you know i made some buckles and some windup toy and some i don't know a bunch of other stuff um and i you know i keep putting all that stuff on my my thingiverse thing i think i think my thingiverse link should be down here someone tell me if it's not i meant i meant to put it there um you know in the in the default description i don't actually check it before i start doing this um let's see but yes it will be available one year of not buying gas easily pays for most of your solar and batteries maybe two years paid for well yeah that's that's the another thing is like my solar panels and the batteries will last longer because i don't really use them that much i i don't drive that often like compared to uh like other people who have gas motors they'll go to town like a couple times a week so if i was comparing to that like i my stuff pays for itself in like two months compared to what other people do i actually know a guy who has a boat that goes one mile per gallon of gasoline he's telling me this knows like what wait a minute i had to get i had to get him to say it to me like eight times before i was like okay i think i actually understand this insanity but yeah can you imagine driving a gallon per gasoline every mile oh it's like it's like you you turn on the engine it's like i don't know okay tick tick tick tick dime dime dime oh here's a dollar dime dime dime oh there's another dollar it's like oh my god turn it off turn it off oh that would be stressful one of the things i love about about my boats and the you know the lumber mill and all the all the vehicles and everything i use here on you know being on solar power is i can just turn stuff on and i know it's not gonna come after me later you know like even like when you're on the grid that's one of the things that's really nice about being off the grid you know when you're on the grid you turn on a light it's like well i'm gonna be paying for that at the end of the month you turn on any electric anything your computer or whatever it's like oh pennies are just are just going you know pennies you're you're gonna be paying that but when you're on solar power it's like i can turn anything on and it i've already paid for the the equipment like the solar panels and the batteries and stuff and the last the last a pretty long time and man i love using that lumber mill it's working so well i need to i need to get new video of it since i put the batteries on because oh it's really good and and now i mean first when i was making the videos of the lumber mill i was going through the wood really slow because i wasn't sure how fast i could go but now that i've done a whole bunch of boards i kind of know the speed and it's way faster than i was originally thinking maybe not way faster but like yeah i'm cutting faster than i thought i was going to be able to you know that i thought i could reasonably do oh it's really good yeah i take i take wood up to the lumber mill and i just turn it on and it's like the energy is there like you know i'm not going to be paying any bills i'm not using up the gasoline it's just the the sun and i know the solar panels and stuff will will need maintenance eventually but everything needs maintenance so you know whatever ah the upstairs looks sweet yeah i'm oh it's really good um my kids keep wanting to go up there and my three-year-old i only let her go up i go up with her but then uh my two middle kids they go up and they start doing laps around and you know like here there's only well you can't really see because this is in the way but there's two boards going across and then there's a bunch of floorboards and a bunch of floorboards but then there's a section where it's just joists and so they'll they'll balance across and i'm like you guys better not kill yourselves but then i think about when i was a kid and i'm like i mean we we used to sneak into like construction zone like construction sites where there were like rusty nails all over the place and we'd be like in dangerous things walking across oh man we did way more dangerous things so i'm like okay you guys go ahead just just be careful you know uh you might um hi i love what you do thank you very much lois you are so inspiring and alive like do my best well thank you very much uh mr langel says thumbs up everyone and the bot to yeah how many how many bots are here are there bots here they don't have bots wasting their their computer time here do it if you wait if you have oh no this is a typo if you have to our alcohol still you can take the papayas and turn them into the fuel i can turn wait turn papayas into fuel i do turn them into fuel by hitting them they're my fuel oh yeah i had i got the first papaya off my papaya tree out there you know a little while ago i showed it on camera and you know my papaya tree has like i don't know like 50 freaking papayas on it and the first one was yellow two days ago and we ate it and it was delicious and now there are two more that are like halfway yellow might be ready tomorrow or the next day it was very exciting i'm getting i'm getting free papayas now which is awesome let's see but yeah i wouldn't turn papayas into fuel they're delicious i mean i would eat them for fuel okay john has a question okay let's see are you planning planting papaya avocado and other seeds that you get at the fruits you eat yes what are the last things you have planted or found wild for food well i have you know avocados are kind of known for taking forever to fruit and somewhere it was right around when i started building my house i planted well i planted like 40 avocado trees but two of them are doing amazingly well just don't just right over here they're they're pretty close to each other which makes me think that area must have good soil for avocado trees um so what's it been like three years or something i don't know but i probably have like another at least two years did two to five or six years depending on who i ask but yes i have avocado trees growing and i'm very excited to get avocados and i have a few papaya trees right in front of my house here and anytime i eat papayas or any kind of fruit i i put this i throw the seeds around i sometimes plant them on purpose but like whenever i plant seeds on purpose it just they don't seem to do anything you know but if i just kind of like throw them around it's like oh something will pop up somewhere you know so i've had the most luck just throwing stuff around so i do occasionally purposely plant seeds but i've had the most luck just just throw in scraps like you know take out the papaya seeds and just kind of throw them out there uh that's where all my papaya trees have popped up in places that i just throw the seeds none of the ones i actually planted and then i have a bunch of like citrus trees but i'm not sure what they are because you know i've had oranges and lemons and limes and sweet orange and sour oranges so i have i have several citrus trees starting i guess one day i'll find out what they are when they start making making fruits um i've i've gotten lots of bananas off my trees out here and i'm i should be getting more bananas soon because a couple of the banana trees are really tall so hopefully they'll make more banana soon um oh and i have lots of katuk which is like spinach and oregano otherwise known as oregano oh you know what i have a piece right here because i asked my three-year-old to get me two leaves of oregano and she brought me like a branch so uh we went over uh the difference between just pulling leaves off and you know ripping off a whole branch i think she's got it oh that smells delicious i love that stuff um so yeah the the katuk which is like spinach and then the oregano i eat some of that like every day oh and then coconuts i have coconuts like i eat roughly a coconut every day um i'll shred a coconut and use that in cereal which in the cereal it's just like oats coconut mixing some peanut butter and some raisins and peanuts and stuff and put some water in it i don't even have milk or anything you just put water in it and uh it's pretty good and then the rest of the coconut always goes into my bread this one doesn't look that great i may have overcooked it slightly it's all right that's totally fine not quite burnt i almost burnt it but didn't quite we're not going to look at the side back here yeah i did burn it a little anyway this is sourdough bread and has the rest of the coconut from this morning in it so yeah you um i eat a fair amount of stuff just from here lately with the amount of the katuk and the oregano i've been eating i haven't been getting any other vegetables like you know i don't know a couple months um and i feel fine feel good i think everything's going well uh solar is definitely cool only thing i worry about is life-threatening emergency for anyone on the island since they are not so quick yeah i mean the thing is like you could die anywhere doing anything you know um this i guess this is this is the big question that comes up for people a lot when they think about living off grid or live living outside of a city or just just kind of living in a more wildernessy place the the question always comes up you know what about hospitals what if you got hurt what if you break your leg you gotta get to a hospital but you know you figure it out you know um every time we've had to get to a hospital we have gotten to a hospital you know last year i cut the holy crap out of my arm here i think i had nine stitches and you know i did it here there's there was blood everywhere oh my god it bled so much um but after like three hours it didn't i couldn't get it to stop bleeding so you know i went to the hospital and i drove i actually called my my friend who was here when it happened so he knew what was going on and i was like hey man can you drive me over to the bar and we went over to the bar which is not that far away and we got there and i was like hey yo tengo emergencia you know i have an emergency and i hold up my arm and it's like dripping with blood and the guy over there was like oh and then said a whole bunch of stuff and Spanish is on the phone he's like he's like basically you know we've got we've got fast hospital transport and it's just a guy who lived over there you know i paid him 70 bucks to to take me to the hospital in his fast boat although he dropped me off like i don't know like three miles from the hell it's like four miles like four miles from the hospital which is like kind of annoying but whatever and i'm like hey why don't you just take me to the the dock that's right down the street from the hospital he's like i can't do that i can't do that and i'm like all right whatever so i i ended up walking four miles you know kind of just dripping blood the entire way and people are like oh but whatever you know it was fine and i'm trying to think what are their times i really you know like if a kid has like an infected toe or something like we go to the hospital um i'm trying to there was there was some time i can't remember what it was but there was something uh like a year or two ago where it was getting kind of late and one of the kids seemed like they were i don't know some infection or they're feeling sick or something and they weren't looking so good and we we just got to the hospital you know we figured out we got there and you know it turned out to not be a big deal but you know it's still good to know that we could get there and if it was a serious emergency we would have we would have made it you know anyway you could die anywhere doing anything so don't let don't let fear of possible dangers keep you from doing what you gotta do you know ah let's see question where were we oh okay i think i missed i actually missed a comment okay can i ask what would you say your depth of discharge you do for your boat's house what do you do with the boats you don't use as much do you rotate them to keep them fresh um okay they're i use i drive two boats one is the big cargo boat and the other one is my smallest boat which is the fastest one and then i have a mid-sized boat that doesn't have any batteries on it and that's just kind of parked so it's not degrading and it's parked and the solar panels are closed so they're not in the sun so it should be fine until you know such time as i decide i want to drive that one around but right now i want the little fast boat for you know if i'm going to town just for groceries or whatever or if i need to go to the hospital or you know if i'm just going somewhere without a bunch of cargo or the big cargo boat if i'm either going to pick up wood from the you know for my other property which is i mean like a couple minutes away or if i'm going to town to pick up packages so the last video i did where i went to town it was in the big boat because i was picking up a bunch of packages so the big boat's nice for that and those boats both have batteries on them lithium iron phosphate batteries and they're parked partially in the shade but they definitely get some sun so they you know they get topped up every every day um but what was the other part of the question oh what's my my depth of discharge um well i actually try to use the batteries kind of as little as possible so the other day when i did that trip to town i left what was it like i left before five in the morning so it was still dark so i drove a couple hours in the dark um i just drove at a slower speed and that was just on batteries and i'm not sure what my depth of discharge was there but i think i estimated i used about a quarter of the energy in the batteries around that so i still had 75 percent and with the you know the lithium iron phosphate batteries that that should be totally fine um and then most of the time i'm driving i'm doing it in the sun so the sun is either keeping up with what i'm using or they you know i don't end up going that far and then you know when i like if i'm driving to the store i'll drive to the store use a bit of battery and you know while i'm parked at the store it'll get back up to full and then drive home and then it charges pretty soon after that so most of the time i'm not using the batteries that much solar is definitely cool only thing yeah okay that was the hospital one wendy uh it isn't just the sound but gyration of most combustion engines being in a car with a rotary engine is so calm like sitting in your living room whoa that's cool i don't know if i've ever been in a rotary engine car that's cool hollin's horns what's going on man Sean says the transportation of energy will also cost energy. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the thing. Like, like often when people ask that question, even if it's an AI, let's forget that it was an AI that asked that question according to someone. But like, often when people ask the question about what's better, you know, I just realized, I'll say that in a second. But like, when you're comparing like solar panel, a solar panel to gasoline, people often count like all the manufacturer that goes into the solar panel, but they don't count all the, all the, the mining and the refining and everything that goes into producing the gasoline that has to constantly be delivered over and over and over, right? And that makes the gasoline even less attractive. But anyway, so if it, if it really was an AI that was asking this question about, you know, this semi accusatory question, like kind of what's the word denigrating, kind of kind of crapping on solar power a little bit. I wonder how much of this, how much of the information that we're seeing online is just AI is trying to push an agenda because, you know, people are making money off you not having solar panels. Because once like no one's making money off me using gasoline or, or energy, like electricity or, or water or anything like I do all that stuff myself. And sure, I had to, I had to get the solar panels. So that I had to pay for. But after that, it's like, I have a free ride for like decades. So I wonder, I wondered how much of this stuff, you know, all this, all this stuff out there in the media is AI is trying to push agendas. I bet it's a lot. I bet it's a lot more than people, than people realize. And just someone telling someone saying that was an AI that said that that's, that's crazy, man. Like, obviously, the AI is not just saying that just just for fun. Like it's trying to put an idea in people's heads. Huh. I wonder, yeah. Anyway, Joe Blow, what's up, man? Wait, did I miss anything? Okay, the transport of energy by reducing need, your localized production of energy can be much more efficient with your usage. Yes. That's basically what I just said. Joe Blow, I finally made a live again. How's it going, man? Yeah. Val says I've, I've seen people condense plastics in a still to turn them back into oil gas. Yes. Someone, someone suggested that I get a diesel engine recently and use cooking oil to run it. And I was like, where the hell am I getting cooking oil? What are you talking about? Like if you live in a city and there's like a whole bunch of like fast food chains around you, sure. You know, a few people can do that. But like, even if I go to town, like how much cooking oil am I going to get from town? It's not that big a town, you know? Anyway, let's see. Yeah, I'm the same guy from a few weeks ago. My Highland is in South Louisiana, right? That sounds super awesome, man. Imagine your dome will be less bright when floors are done. Are you putting any lights in? Well, the first and second floor is I'm not worried about at all. I mean, there's so many windows in this house. It's, it's crazy bright, which is also why it's, it's hard to do any video in this house, because there's a window behind me anywhere I go, which, which backlights, like even right now, like this, if I could block off that window, the camera would probably, and that one, the camera would probably get me a little better and stop adjusting. There. Yeah, I think my, yeah, see that? You see that? Oh, yeah. Take out the backlighting and show it better. And then, oh, now I'm darker. But that's just because there's so much light coming in from every direction, which is great for people's eyeballs. Like you come in here and the lighting is amazing for eyeballs, but for cameras, it's terrible. But anyway, the only place that lighting, I think, is going to be not an issue, but like something I need to do something about is on the third floor, because the first floor has all these, these windows here, look. Here, yeah, it's got these going like all the way around. And then this is the second floor. You know what, let's just, this is why I always aim, yeah, I'm always, I'm always doing my lives in the kitchen, kind of aiming at that wall, because it limits the number of windows that are behind me. So these are all on the second floor. And there are 12 of those. Yeah, there's 12. Yeah, there are 12 of those going all the way around. So the first and second floor will have plenty of light. But then the third floor is, is just a big styrocrete dome. And there's a hole in the top. Here, let me see if I can show you guys that. Yeah, right up, right up above my head there. So there's a hole up there. And like it goes up and it's like a cylinder and there are slots around it. And that's the only light that's going to come in there. So I'll have to do something for lighting on the third floor. I don't know why yet. Try it. And that was crazy. Like, look at the difference there. So I'm gonna have to do something for the third floor. I'm not, I don't know why yet. I can sit here and speculate and say a bunch of things that I might do, but I really haven't thought about that much. So I'll figure out when I get closer up there. Um, suffice it to say, I'm pretty sure I can figure it out, you know, I'm not too worried. I imagine dome. Okay, please pray. 3d printer nerds. Oh, Mr. Lanfield. Thank you for linking everyone to my thingiverse, which has a bunch of, you know, 3d printer files you can print. Hi, Jamie. Another idiot checking in. Very good, Mike Jackson. Back from the dead. Josh. Hey, Jamie. How's the fridge you put together working out? I'm interested in making one. How much was the kit? Well, the kit actually got for free, but it cost like $600. And it's, it's marine rated. So it can handle salt wire, modern stuff. Like it should last a long time. Theoretically speaking, like it's not going to rust out, which is one of the things that was really interested in with that particular kit. And I don't remember that nor cold. It was nor cold. N O R C O L D. Pretty sure that was the company that makes them. But yeah, I was, I was interested in it because things here rust, you know, the humidity and the, the salty air, the salty air isn't that bad, but you know, things definitely rust more here than other places I've been. You know, I have to, uh, every once in a while, I'll oil my tools just to, just to keep them from rusting, but the fridge is working amazingly well. It's, it's back in my bedroom because that's where I had a 24 volt thing I could connect it to. Uh, it's on wheels though. I could put it anywhere. I could wheel it up into the kitchen, but, um, I don't know. It's just sitting there. I kind of like it there now. It's in a spot where nothing, nothing was doing anything there. So, um, and I don't, I don't go into it very often. Plus, I think if my fridge was in my kitchen, my kids would get into it because they know there's cheese in there. Well, you know, anyway, uh, yeah, it's working really well. It's on right now. It's got five pounds of, of ground cow, like a couple pounds of cheese in it. I think it's all, I think that's everything. Oh no, I put leftovers because I made fried rice and I, I ended up not feeding as many people as I thought I was going to feed. And normally when that happens, I just eat the whole thing. I feel like I'm going to throw up. Um, but today I was like, oh, I'll just put it in the fridge. So yeah, I have a bowl of fried, well, kind of like a big bowl of fried rice in the fridge too. But yeah, the fridge is working very well. It's working great. And I leave it on all night. Doesn't kill the batteries or anything. There's still like 25 volts in the morning, lead acid batteries. Um, oh, should I get into that? Oh man. Okay. I'm gonna, I'm just going to say it. So in that, in the video where I drove to town, a lot of people made this one comment over and over. Like, like I saw a dozen times. I didn't, I didn't look at that many comments. Um, you know, I just kind of looked through real quick. Um, you know, just for whatever. But I saw it about a dozen times. And the comment was the voltage means nothing on those batteries, because you know, I said the batteries are holding steady at 26 and a half volts, which is great. But he said the voltage means nothing on those batteries. And then they carry on to explain what the voltage means. So the voltage means nothing on those batteries. And let me hear, explain what they, what it actually means. Like, wait, wait, wait, if it means nothing, isn't that the end? But okay, the voltage means nothing on those batteries when the voltage drops, they're dead. So they, they said the voltage means nothing, and then explained what the voltage means incorrectly. Like it was, were all those from AIs? It might have been because it was like basically the same exact comment, like over and over. There was a bunch of AIs saying we were like just, I don't know. But anyway, the voltage does mean something. It's just, I think they were, they were presuming I thought the voltage would linearly go down or something over time. But the way the batteries work, you know, if full charge is here and empty is here, like the voltage stays up and then slowly comes down and accelerating rate and then comes down faster and faster and faster until you, until you get to dead. And you know, there's a point you don't want to go past. But it's not like as soon as the voltage drops a tenth of a volt, your batteries are dead. Just totally not that. Anyway, okay, I'm making one, how much was the kit? Yeah, the, the, the refrigerator thing was about 600 bucks. Hey, Jamie, a long time no see. It's Tim. Not sure if you remember me. Tim? Which Tim? What Tim? I need a little bit more information. Yeah, I don't know. Val has been using my electric scooter to get to work and run for groceries. I have a solar panel I keep in my window. It charges my phone. That's great. Yeah, it's funny. Like if you actually just use solar panels intelligently, they're amazingly useful. But then you get all this weird propaganda from the AI saying, oh, it's no good. That's cool. Just using an electric scooter to, to get to work and run for groceries. Yeah, I mean, you would end up saving so much money and, you know, obviously producing less waste and stuff. Just, just doing that over and over and over, you know, it's the kind of thing where it's like you save five bucks here, 10 bucks there, five bucks here, two bucks here. And then, you know, at the end of the year, it's like, hey, I've got like $3,000 I didn't spend just because I saved these little, little bits along the way. And now I get to use it for something cool, man. Like making giant robots or whatever. I don't know. How's the campsite doing? I remember you saying you're going to make some homes. How about the fiberglass dome mold? Okay. The campsite's going well. What I've been focusing on lately is just doing the second floor. But all of that would came out of the campsite area. So there was some logs and they were good. And I was like, cut those up and get them out of there. So that, that partially kind of includes what's it includes not the right word. But yeah, that's partially also clearing the campsite area, but mostly it's just making the second floor. But it's a good spot. I got a really cool spot. And I think I know how I want to build the campsite area. I showed a picture a while ago of a dome I wanted to make. And it was based on that fiberglass dome. I think you think the one you're talking about, but I'm probably going to make them out of styrocrete. And what I think I'm going to end up doing, of course this could still change, but the latest idea I had, I think I'm going to make maybe six of them in a circle, with fair amount of space between them. So like a hexagon, like spread them out in a hexagon kind of thing. And then put a wall between them all. So it ends up being like a castle or a fortress. And each dome will then have an entrance from the outside and an entrance from the inside. So you can go to the inside to this inner courtyard, which I don't know, we'll have to make it all pretty and nice, you know, which will be protected by the buildings and the walls. And then if you don't want to, and you'd go in there to hang out in the inner courtyard, if you want to hang out with people, and then people who are staying in the other domes can go in there too if they want to hang out with people. If they don't want to hang out with people, just close that door and, you know, go out the other door or stay inside or whatever. I think that could be really cool. And then the inner courtyard part would be like nicely manicured and landscaped and stuff. And I could grow vegetables in there because it'll be protected to some degree by the walls and the building, you know, it'll be circled in. Or maybe you have chickens in there, or maybe that's what keeps the chickens out of there. I don't know. I just think that'll be cool. Let's see. Hi, Jamie, would you electroplate your 3D prints? I have not really thought about that, but yeah, sure. Why not? You've been electroplating things? What's going on? What's going on? Tungsten or would you electroplate your 3D prints? Well, I might have to look up if people are doing that. When I was doing the robot toy thing years ago, they electroplated a couple of the toys just to do tests. I think they ended up doing a version that is electroplated. It was more expensive and everything. But man, they came out really nice. How hard is that to do? What do I need to do it anyway? Jeff the Hermit, I 3D printed a tiny crossbow from Thingiverse that shoots toothpicks. Fun stuff, that's funny. Where do banana seeds come from? Well, it depends on the bananas, of course. Some bananas actually have viable seeds in them. I've seen bananas with big, huge seeds in them and you wouldn't want to just chop away because you'd be like, yeah. But the bananas you buy at the grocery store, they have little tiny seeds that won't actually grow anything. As far as I know, they don't grow anything at all. But I don't know, maybe you could get one in Germany. But I don't think they do anything. So the banana trees actually propagate through the roots, like going down and coming up, like grass. You know, like grass will grow through the ground and pop up somewhere else and then you get more grass. Same thing with banana trees. So, you know, I've got banana trees here. Originally it was just one banana tree, but now it's like a dozen at least. And it's just they come out of the roots and produce another banana tree kind of right beside it and then, you know, they just keep popping out of the ground. So they're all clones of each other, though. So that's one of the problems with bananas is that since they're all clones of each other, because they're just growing from the same plant, as opposed to seeds, like when you when you plant something from a seed, it's not necessarily genetically identical to its parents. But when you're when they're just growing from the roots out, they're genetically identical. So if there's like some kind of fungus or something that starts killing the plants, it'll kill like all of them. So there used to be a different kind of bananas people ate, but there was some kind of fungus or something. I don't remember where it was, but something that killed that type of banana tree. And since they were all genetically identical, he just wiped them out, you know. And, yep. Let's see. Hi, Jamie. First time commenting. Oh, mega, wait. Mega moons. Okay, first time commenting. Your ingenuity is inspiring. You mentioned you are getting back to designing stuff. Oh, I'm having so much fun designing stuff. Could you share some of the design challenges you are currently working on? Well, I've been sharing stuff. I mean, most of my design stuff right now has just been like 3d printer stuff. So I've been sharing all of that on Thingiverse. Like if I make something that I think is is kind of cool, I'll share it on Thingiverse. Design challenges. I don't know. It's more like design fun. But yeah, part of part of the fun is just the challenges. Share some of the design challenges you're working on. That sounds like a huge question. Hmm. Well, I mean, I could just I could just say some of the things that I've that I've had challenges with recently that I've solved. Like the lumber mill works amazingly in full sun. Like, well, it did work amazingly in full sun. But I wanted to work more often. So I put batteries in there and, you know, did some funny wiring and stuff. And, you know, basically, I have it set up to run on solar panels and batteries, which has been amazing. And then things like, you know, I made this camouflage vest. And, you know, I saw a lot. I shouldn't say a lot. I saw sometimes sometimes I saw a lot. But I made a camouflage vest for myself with a bunch of pockets so I could, you know, I could wear it when I have to carry a bunch of crap with me. But I didn't want to put buttons on it because buttonholes, man, they're a pain in the butt. So I wanted to make some kind of buckles or something. So I, you know, designed these these clippy buckles. Let me go get it. Hold on. Where is this thing? Right over here somewhere. Alright, so here we go. I got this thing here. And I wanted to make some kind of buckles that could like, you know, connect. So I designed these things, which the lighting is terrible for this right now. You have to put it in at 90 degrees. And then once it's not at 90 degrees, like, you can't get it apart. And then when you close it all the way, it actually has six points of contact to make it to make it super strong. You can't rip the thing apart. Right. So that was a really fun thing to, you know, figure out the details and get it to work right. And then, you know, I wanted to make some some Lego tank treads, because like when I was a kid, one of my favorite things in the Lego, maybe I shouldn't say one of my favorite things, like everything is my favorite thing about Lego. But one of the really cool things was that was the tank treads in Lego, but they're so weak, they're so easy to break. So I made, I designed some, some better tank treads to go with the Lego stuff. So my kids get out, like build tanks and stuff. Oh, I like a tank right here. So, you know, those are kind of fun to figure out the details and all that. And they had to print the little sprocket, of course. Those work quite nicely. I just, I just like designing stuff and making stuff. It's, it's kind of reminding me a little bit of when I was working on toy stuff many, many years ago, except not having to deal with with people's egos. Oh man, just doing it on your, on your own is so much more fun. I don't know. There's always design challenges. There's like, I could sit here all day and come up with things that are design challenges. Yeah, I don't know. Let me, let me keep going. Okay. Yay for the citrus and banana. It sounds like you have a lot of the great foods going. Keep planting and your family will have food for a very long time. Proud of you. Well, thanks man. I'm kind of proud of me too. A little bit. The other day, I was like, hey, Jamie, I'm a little proud of you. I feel like you're, you're, you're getting there now. One of the, one of the cool things that has happened in the last, I don't know, year, few months, I don't know. Kind of recently, generally speaking, is there are more kids living in this area because some families have moved in. And so my kids have more friends now, which is awesome. Super, super awesome. And, you know, doing, doing, I do homeschool with my kids. Maybe I should read you one of, one of their math questions. I do, you know, I do homeschool with my kids and now at least one of these other kids has been showing up. And, you know, it's cool having extra, extra kids around for my kids to hang out with and don't do stuff. Here, let me, let me show you one of my, one of my math things. Let's find a good one. Oh, that one's not that good. Hold on, there's only the other side of this paper. Like every morning I give my kids math questions. Okay, here's, here's a nice one. So it'll be, I don't know, all you can see this, but up here at the top, it's just like a few, you know, basic math questions, like this times this, this divided by this, you know, we're working on a long division, which is tedious and annoying. So we go over it every freaking week. And then, you know, some algebra, you know, what's 5w plus six minus four over blah, blah, blah equals 23, you know, solve for w. And then I always finish the math with the bottom half, which is a, you know, a written question kind of thing. And partly because it encourages one of my daughters who's not that into reading to read. She's very into math, but she's not that into reading, but she'll read these partly because I try to make them fun too. But here's, here's one example of a question. The pickle flavored princess wants to be the flower smelly princess. It takes three flowers to overpower to pickle smell. If she has 36 pickle smell, how many flowers does she need to smoke on herself? And then there's a little picture down here of the pickle flavored princess jumping into a bunch of flowers. And apparently the answer is 54. And I think that was actually the correct answer. Yeah. So, and then, you know, we've got turbo Mclady wants to go to town as fast as you can. And there's a bunch of stuff. And then, you know, takes 10 gallons of gas to drive town back. If you want to pick up five pizzas, you know, it's just lots of silly stuff like that. But anyway, yeah, it's, you know, I feel like I feel like the community is starting to become more of a community, which is cool. Like there are people, not even so much people that I hang out with, but more people for my kids to hang out with. I mean, there's a few people I hang out with, but I'm like always busy making stuff anyway. Your bread looks like a brick frisbee. Actually, so you know why my bread always looks like that? Although this one, this one is a little bit flat, so I was trying to cook it fast. I didn't have that much dough. I also didn't let it rise that much. But anyway, it's always like flat on the top and the bottom, because I cook it in a pan. So I cook it on one side, then flip it over and cook it on the other side. So, you know, at one point before I flip it, it's got a nice, a nice flat bottom and then like kind of mound it up top, but then I got to flip it over to get it to make sure it cooks all the way through. And it's fine. It actually works out really well for sandwiches and stuff because I cut it like pizza and then each one of those I can cut into slices. And anyway, it tastes good. My kids eat it. The kids know how to run the boat. My dad taught me to drive a manual truck when I was 13. He said, if he got hurt out on the farm, I would have to drive him to town. Good lessons. That is good lessons. I should teach my kids to drive all my boats. One of my daughters could drive the boat. The other one, not just not that interested, but I should just make her learn how to do it better. And then my three-year-old, whatever. I mean, my three-year-old, my son, they're still kind of young, but they're starting to pick up that stuff. There are clothes and sprays that cause immediate blood clotting. Good stuff. Yeah. People suggested that stuff to me a bunch, actually. I don't know. Maybe I'll get some at some point. I'm more focusing on not being an idiot. So I don't do stupid things. The last time I cut my arm really bad, I had to do a significant amount of self-reflection and figure out what was going on. And I was just you know, I was just not mentally right because a lot of crap happened last year and I was like losing the will to live and I was just my survival instincts were basically turned off. So I had to be like, okay, come on, turn it back on and then think about what you're doing, how dangerous it is, care. So I've been doing much better with that. I'm actually starting to see things that are dangerous again and paying attention to that stuff and thinking twice when I go up on something high and just being more careful. I go away in the mountains and if something happens there, it's a long drive to the hospital. Like you said, it could happen wherever you are. Yeah. The thing is you can do everything to try to be as safe as possible. You could move to the city and live next door to a hospital and then you know, someone could shoot you like in your front yard to steal your wallet or something. Like there's always, okay, the way I always think about it is no matter what I do, an asteroid could fall out of outer space and land on my head and kill me at any moment. There's no way to guarantee safety. There are reasonable levels of safety that you can aim for, but beyond a certain point, it's like stuff can happen. You can't be prepared for everything. At least I keep that and tourniquets in my first aid kit. Yeah. Well, a tourniquet, I feel like I could make a tourniquet if I really need one. Also, some chest seals. What are chest seals? I'm in it to your live stream. Hey, what's going on, Ark? The floor structure looks awesome. Yeah, I'm really happy with it. Your 3D prints have been inspiring. I have your printer in my shopping cart for later. Cool. You got some of the holog... Wait. Cool. You got some of the holographic fiber? I got some holographic fiber? No way. Did I? I don't know. Did someone send me some? Anyway, I am not a... Sean says I am not a robot. That's good to know. I was looking at various spools of 3D printer fiber, and there are so many cool options. Also, Thingiverse is interesting. Oh, God, this is funny. Oh, JJ's fourth phone says, why is your subreddit so critical of you? That is not my subreddit. I'm presuming you're talking about the Jamie Mansell Reddit hate group? That's what I call it. I don't know. I don't pay attention to that. When some guys started it, I looked at it a little bit. I participated a little, and pretty quickly I was like, whoa, this is not the place for me. I don't have anything to do with that. Great to know that it's still super critical of me, though. I'll continue to steer clear. Can 3D printers such as yours be given a larger axis track so that huge things can be printed? Yes. I also like how your looks printing away in the background of your recent video. You mean how it looks when it's printing in the background of the video? Yeah, that is cool. Maybe a cylinder of plexiglass where the vent is. The vent on top of that. Oh, crap. Now I'm lost. I don't know what I was talking about when you made that comment. Would 3D printed propellers be durable or no? Well, I did make 3D printed propellers before, and I used them for a while. However, I did notice they were definitely way more fragile than any other propellers. I've been making fiberglass propellers that I'm really happy with, and those are pretty tough. I can hit a little bit of, like if I hit a piece of wood or something, they don't get damaged. But the 3D printed ones, yeah, if I hit a piece of wood, they would just come apart. But they're really good for testing out different propellers. So a few years ago, I made this 3D printed propeller hub that would accept different size propeller blades in different shapes so I could test things and just see what worked well. So that was nice. But yeah, it's not really good for like a long term usage. Let's see. Just finished printing the buckle. Ah, awesome. Love the simplicity of it and how well it holds. Well, I'm wondering, did it like, you know, since 3D printers are all different, like, were the tolerances, the clearances good on yours? Like it goes in easily, clicks shut, you know, it doesn't stick or anything like that. How about adding light pipes? Oh, this is what the plexiglass thing was. How about adding light pipes to the third floor? Could be simple as a soda bottle filled with bleach water cemented into the ceiling. I don't know. I'll figure it out. I don't need to like bang my head against that until I get there. I don't think it's going to be that difficult, a thing to figure out, you know, how to get light in the third floor. Maybe it'll just be as simple as making a clear cap for the whatever you call it thing that's there. Maybe I should turn on the light on. I brought my light in here. Oh, yeah, there we go. A bit of light. Let's see. Yeah, that's a little better. Not right in my face. Get a little bit more. All right. Where are we here? If you have a planar, I think it is a huge upgrade to install a helical cutter with carbide teeth to replace the crappy three blade design. Super durable, four sharp edges, quiet, ultra smooth finish. I do actually have a planar. Well, I mean, I have, you know, the little hand planar and I have the electric hand planar. But then I also have this big old, you know, big machine thing that weighs like 600 pounds and you put the board in and it sucks it in. But I haven't actually turned it on yet. I got it from a guy, I got it really used. He needs a few repairs. But you know, I looked at it and I'm pretty confident I can get it. I can get it in good working condition. I think I may want to use that on my floor boards for the second floor. So I've been thinking about getting it out and powering it from the lumber mill power source. So I'll have to put a similar motor on it. Right now it has no motor in it. I don't remember I had a motor in it when I got it, but I took it apart in pieces because it actually is like 600 pounds. It's super heavy. I had to take it apart in pieces to move it. Yeah, I want to, anyway, I'll figure that out later. Hexagons best agon. You can use graphite paint to get 3D prints electroplated. You can use graphite paint to get 3D prints. So you take graphite paint and that makes it conductive so you can electroplate them. I see. We call them suckers. Same for plum damson and alike. We always have circles of little trees around the main ones. Oh, the suckers when you have a banana tree or whatever and it's making other trees like shoots from its roots. I was thinking the stairs could be in the center of your home, maybe spiral staircase. The problem if I put the stairs in the center of my home, they won't actually reach the second floor because the second floor only goes around the outside so that if you're standing on this side of the house on the second floor and you stand actually at the railing and you look all the way across at the railing over at the other end, I think it's like 24 feet or something. Like it's pretty far across. I have to put the stairs closer to the side, although I might put a bridge going right through the middle in which case the staircase would get to that. Anyway, let's see. This sounds like an interview question. Cousin Jamie, why not lime wall to bright up the cathedral? Are you actually my cousin? I do have a whole bunch of cousins. I actually was thinking about lime washing this place but I guess I'm trying to get through the structural stuff before I do the pretty stuff. So yeah, I just haven't gotten to that yet. And I'm also not sure how pretty I'm going to make the concrete. Like I may spackle over all the concrete everywhere and smooth it out and make it real nice before I paint or lime wash or whatever I end up doing. You know what I think I want to do is I think I want to paint like a scene on the inside of my house that's like like a nice beach scene with some outer space up there and some aliens. Like make it just so like when you're in the middle of the house and you look out, it's like you're in some amazing landscape. I'm thinking of doing that. But I don't know, we'll see. Do your kids think the 3D printer is some kind of incredible toy machine? My kids do think the 3D printer is some kind of incredible toy machine. Yes, definitely. Yeah, I shouldn't say most, but a lot of the stuff I print is for them. I mean, it's also for me. Like, you know, when I made these tracks for the LEGO stuff, like this is this is my son's tank. But I wanted to make the tracks because I wanted them. And then, you know, I give them to him and I'm like, here, you make something or I helped him make it. Yeah, I helped him make this. He's like five. Yeah, he's five. So, you know, I helped him with this, but he gave me design input and everything. And then I printed another set for my one of my daughters who also wanted a set of tank treads. So, yeah, it's like like a kind of halfway print the stuff for myself. But it's also for my kids. They end up getting all the stuff after them. Because for me, the most the most fun part is like the design challenges to figure out how to get it to work really well. And then I want to see them do stuff with them. Thank you for all you do. You're living the dream. Would there be any benefit to 3D printing a variation of your cool PVC bearings? Well, yeah, I mean, you could definitely do it. I've thought about it. The PVC bearings, the PVC roller bearings are very tough, which is what I like about them. I'm pretty sure they'd be more durable than 3D printed ones. However, I think there are probably a lot of applications where the 3D printed bearings would have enough strength, would have enough durability to be useful. I suggest you write a math book for homeschooler kids, just put together all the stuff you've been doing for your kids. Well, yeah, I was, I read a little bit of my, you know, one of my math questions. This is just piles and piles of them. I keep them after I make them. Jamie has 14 coconuts and 50 pounds of flour. I don't even know what that one is. These are questions. Let's see. Shark skin chopper butt is driving his dinosaur. Oh, there's even a picture of a guy driving a dinosaur here. Check it out, check it out. He goes north, six miles west. Yeah, I do actually have all those. And I keep all the math things. I was thinking about maybe at some point, just putting them all together, I'll have to, you know, take the answers out, of course, you know, rewrite them all. Let's see. Chest seals are for sucking chest wounds from gunshots. Chest seals are for sucking chest wounds from gunshots, like from, so you suck the, can you suck the bullets out of them? Man, if you get shot in the chest with a gun, I feel like, I don't know, I feel like if I'm getting shot in the chest by a gun, I've got some serious problems. Pouring ground, wait, pouring ground black pepper on cuts will stop most bleeding. I'm not sure about arteries though. Oh yeah, I haven't had the artery cut yet and hopefully never will. Yeah. That's like, like any time I get cut really bad, the first thing I check is it's spurting. And so far, I've been okay. Holographic fiber, I thought your buckle was holographic because of the color shift. It looks like there's a bunch of jewel-like options. Oh yeah, my buckles, I really put it. Where did I put my buckle? There it is. All right, now that I actually have a light on and I can maybe show the buckle a little better. These are spray-painted. Hold on. Yeah, let's get that one. So, come on. I don't want to aim the light directly at this because it's going to be too bright. Yeah. Wait. Okay, maybe that's good. There we go. So I spray-painted these to be kind of camouflage-y a little bit. So it's got green, black, and brown. So yeah, they're not. They're nothing fancy. They're just white. So yeah, that's the original color. I didn't paint the inside because you don't actually see it when it's buckled. But yeah, they do make some really cool 3D printer filament that's all super fancy and colorful and stuff. Does cement and fiberglass mat stick to styrofoam sheets? I think so, actually. Yeah, it should stick to styrofoam sheets. There is a question about fiberglass disintegrating over time in the cement. But I've heard various, I've heard different reports about this. And you can definitely get fiberglass that is made to go in concrete with cement. You can also get basalt, basalt, basalt fibers. Anyway, love your channel. Keep up the great work from down under. What's going on, man? Down under. Did you avoid getting COVID by being on your island? Yeah, pretty much. I mean, there's a chance I might have caught it and just had like really mild symptoms. But one of the cool things about why is there a spoon over here? A few hours ago, my son is over here eating food. He has a bowl of food and he's like, where's my spoon? Where's my spoon? There are no spoons here. And now I'm finding spoons. Like I found one outside. I found one in this spot over here. Anyway, I don't know what happened to the spoons today. Wait, what was the question? Yeah, the COVID thing. Well, one of the cool things about living in a less densely populated area where you're not constantly around new people all the time is whenever there is a flu or any kind of contagious sickness, you end up hearing about it like way before you get it. Unless you're unlucky and just happen to be in town like right when it shows up. But so when COVID officially started, like two months before that, we'd heard about some bad flu in town. And I was just like, ah, let's just not go to town for a couple of months and let that blow out blow over. And I'm pretty sure that was that was the beginning of COVID. So it's kind of nice being in a more in a more isolated, less less population dense place. And you know, even even if I hang out with people in this area, you know, these chances are they're not infected with the stuff that's in town. Let's see, how's the house holding up any cracks or failures in the building? Well, there are cracks, but nothing, no failures. I mean, you know, there's just like hairline cracks and the concrete and stuff. But I don't know, nothing. Nothing serious. Nothing I have to worry about. Yeah, it's holding up great. There've been a there've been a few minor earthquakes. And every time there's a little earthquake, I'm like, oh God, please don't fall down. Please don't fall down. But so far, so far, everything's been fine. Oh, and I do, I am putting in some reinforcements for the second floor. I'll show that in a video, kind of like, okay. So the second floor rests on on these, but only at the ends there, like the end over there. And then the end over here, right. And on this particular one, it's got a wall. So, you know, this whole thing is on top of a wall, which goes all the way down to the ground. And then this one over here, the same thing. But most of these, it just goes across, you know, this is the bottom of the thing. And then this is the pillar. And there's nothing here. So I'm putting a little bit like a, just kind of like an extra bit of pillar right under this part that supports the second floor. So I started doing that. And I don't even know if I need it, but it's like a just in case to have something supporting directly under where that were the weights pressing. And that way, if there are any hairline cracks that might, you know, shear off and make something collapse, like it'll have something directly under it, holding it. So yeah, I basically try to try to design everything so there can be some cracks because like concrete cracks, it's just one of the deals with concrete. So I try to design it so it can crack, you know, little bits here and there and it's still okay. And there are stainless steel cables around the entire building, like holding it in. So it's not going to like come apart, which hopefully it wouldn't do anyway, but you know, it's just anyway, whatever. Okay, about an old planer, the helical teeth are a huge upgrade worth the cost. So much better in every way, a swappable cutter is available for most planers I've found. Something for later, I suppose. Yeah, I'll have to also look into that. I can, I mean, my imagination tells me why it would be better. Hello from the French Alps. Hello, how's it going? Is six? Jamie, you need to get some fan, oh, what's a what's some fan out there and help you get some work finished? Oh, some fans. Jamie, you need to get some fans out there and help you get some work finished on your house. Bet you couldn't handle that. Well, I could get some fans out here, but it wouldn't be to get more productive because generally when people visit, I get less done. And the thing is like, I've talked about this before, like when you go into someone else's operation, you're never immediately useful unless they have like really dumb, easy stuff to do. But like all the stuff I have to do here is like physically demanding and or mentally demanding. And there are a lot of things you could screw up and just, you know, people come here and they like don't know how the door works. And it's like, I have to explain that. And it's like, and it's not complicated. It's just like the door goes this way, not the other way. The lock goes like this, you know, it takes a few seconds, but like, it's just like everything here is different than everything that's standardized in most cities that you'd run into. And it's like, you'd have to be here for a couple weeks before you really got productive and useful. So and you'd have to be someone who is like motivated and like in good shape and all that because like I can do a lot of work by myself. And in the past here and in other places, I've had people, you know, help on projects. And it usually ends up being like 15 minutes of doing work. And then they want to be like, Oh, let's take a break and have some of your snacks. And then not only are they eating my snacks, and not only are they not helping anymore, but now they're not even letting me work. And it's like, I should just do this by myself. I get so much more done. But you know, I guess I could if I planned ahead, I could come up with something where a bunch of people could be useful in something like some unskilled labor thing so that people just showing up who don't necessarily have the skill to do some specific thing or whatever could could just do something like, I don't know, moving some stuff, I don't know. But yeah, in terms of getting my house done, I find I get a lot more done when nobody's around. Printed in a little over an hour and the tolerance is perfect. If you clip it the right way. First time I assembled it, I had the one part of the buckle backwards. Printed with four, four walls, 30% infill. Yeah, I think I didn't mind 30% infill too. Although I think mine only have two walls. I'm not sure. No, I don't remember. I had an idea to oversize a staircase by a very long shot, turning it into bookshelves, storage, et cetera, and a feature. So you just make the staircase like super wide. So you walk up one part and then the rest is like, you know, put stuff on it. I did actually think about that. I was thinking, yeah, giant spiral staircase. I don't think I want a spiral staircase. Spiral staircases are cool, but they suck for carrying stuff up or down. Yeah, if you try to take a board up a spiral staircase. Oh, if it's a spiral board, yeah, cool, man. But like a straight board, oh, going up a spiral staircase. Like let me put it through the window instead. I don't know. I think I want just like a normal loop staircase up. And then I also want like at least one ladder, a rope, a slide. I want a bunch of different ways to get up and down. Lime wash is amazing. Seals, cracks, beautiful shimmering, almost sparkle, wonderful air purifying aspect. It's cheap, beautiful and amazing. Would look great on any surface, rough and functional or thin. Okay, where do you get lime wash? Cheap. What's the deal with that? Someone, someone give me some, some tips on that. Breathing changes when you have a hole in you. These seals keep that in check. They go in your skin and seal when you breathe in and open when you breathe out. Oh God. So you're still talking about getting shot in the chest. And this is something that, oh, I'm just hoping I don't get shot in the chest. I'm just going to put that out there. You rock. Arc twill, let's see, the clear 3D printer filament seems interesting. Do you read that? Yeah, the clear 3D printer filament does seem pretty interesting. Probably not as good in sunlight. Using Zoom, video conference meetings website to train adventure builders for the tougher jobs before you get there. I don't have time for that. Like that's the thing. You know, when you get an employee, and this wouldn't be an employee, but like say, say you're running a business and you need an employee to do some job. If you get someone in for like a week or two, they get the training process and you spend all this time training them, you don't want them to leave after that. You like once you've invested the time to train them to do it, then you want to they want them to be there long enough to actually get some production out of it. You know, so for someone to be useful, first, they have to be competent and able to learn, which honestly, most people are not those two things. Confidence, competence varies greatly and ability to learn varies a lot. Like if someone has too high an ego, you can't teach them. And then it's impossible to get them to do anything useful. And then their reliability, and then you just have to try to get rid of them. And then trying to do that, it takes away all the time that you're trying to do the actual thing. So like people who don't do a lot of difficult work often think that you just add people and it makes it easier. But often you add people and it makes it harder. You have the right people, it makes it easier. But even then, there's going to be some amount of learning at the beginning, where you have to invest a certain amount of time. Anyway, I can't do video conferences every day for like three weeks to get someone trained up to come do a week of work and then leave. Love to do new floor joists. Great work, my friend. Well, thank you very much, man. Okay, what are you eating for snacks lately? I don't really snack. I'm still eating a ton of popcorn. I've been making a ton of yogurt. I do eat popcorn. And what I what I usually do, if I'm if I'm on my own, I'll eat breakfast. And I don't eat anything all day until the evening. And then I'll eat as much dinner as I can stuff in myself and then sleep. And I don't snack during the day. It would be nice to have some snacks. There's a lot of times when I'm like, man, I can use a snack. But actually, now I think about it, sometimes I have peanut butter sandwiches. That's kind of like my snack. Or if I have popcorn, that's leftover from the day before or something. But even that, I usually I make popcorn when my kids are here and my kids aren't here and I don't really make popcorn. But yeah, I've got a I got a thing of bread over there. So I'll probably have peanut butter sandwiches tomorrow in the middle of the day whenever I whenever I feel like I have a break. But a lot of days, particularly lately, I'm just, you know, I'll get up, do a bit of exercise, eat breakfast. And then I'm just going nonstop. And I don't even want to stop to eat. I'll stop to drink enough water that I don't get dehydrated, but I don't want to stop to eat. So I just keep going and going and going until it gets to the end of the day. So I haven't really been snacking at all. Any work on the ratcheting wheels for loading wood out of the jungle? No. Yeah, I've just been carrying the wood out of the jungle, which is working pretty well. Like, yeah, I've been able to carry all the boards. There are there are a few that have been really, really heavy. But I managed to get them out. And doing making a cart was something I was thinking more of doing when I wanted to move logs. But once I decided that I was going to chainsaw the logs into slabs, and then cut the slabs into dimensions here at the lumber mill, like I could pick up the slabs. It's tiring, but like I like the exercise. I want to get all like old and wimpy. Okay, about lime wash, just get a 50 pound bag of hydrated lime from the hardware store. What's the hardware store? I need more specific information because I've gone to the hardware stores here. They do not have it. Yeah, what's is there a hardware store where I can order hydrated lime? That's that's what I want to know from the hardware store. Oh, that's like when people say, Jamie, just rent a backhoe or just go down the street, man. Well, you're hungry, just order a pizza. It's like fight over. Actually, I shouldn't say that. There are two pizza places pretty close to here. But that's just a coincidence. There are almost no restaurants around, but there are two pizza places. One is obscenely expensive. And the other one I haven't actually gone to yet, but it seems to have more reasonable prices. But still, I can make pizza way cheaper myself. Okay. Okay, about the hydrated lime. Add water. Some people add a little salt, brush on, also super amazing to add to concrete mix for the healing and sealing, healing and sealing. Yeah. So add a bit of salt. That's interesting. When you say a little salt would see water be too salty, probably too many minerals, I'm guessing. Okay. Wendy says $900 five days is the rate for the fans to pay you to come to a workshop working on your home. Okay. If I was doing a thing where people would come and stay for a week and work on something, it wouldn't just be working on my house. I'd come up with some like cool fun project, like build a dome and the last night you sleep in it, or maybe build kayaks that we can actually drive around. I want to do something, something like fun for people. And I would not charge $900 for people to come for a week. I would charge, I don't know, something that would definitely cover materials and food because I feed people and, you know, a little bit more. I wouldn't want to be losing money on the deal, of course. I've been adding a super healthy oil to my coffee in the morning, MCT. I have no idea what acronyms are. It actually suppresses appetite a little. And I've been finding I don't eat in the morning. I eat around 4pm or so. I don't like stuff that suppresses appetite or changes what I think or stuff. I don't like anything that affects my brain. Yeah. Jamie, one day, can you show us a before and after of your physique since moving out there and starting this home project? That's probably not that much different. I was in pretty good shape before I got out here. But I don't know, maybe I can see what I can do. I am a little bit particularly jacked right now just because I've been carrying all this wood around. That's most of the exercise, carrying wood and, you know, digging. But like, yeah, it's just a lot of carrying wood. Jamie, one day, oh yeah. Limewash, calcium hydroxide, hardware store, place selling screws and other building materials. Oh, oh, thanks, our hardware store. If a place has concrete bags, they'll probably have the hydrated lime. Very common material. All right, Arc, I am telling you, in town here at the hardware stores where I get the cement, they do not have hydrated lime. Maybe there's some place in town somewhere that I haven't found it yet, but I have not found hydrated lime yet. A 50 pound bag costs about $20 in USA and that is a huge amount of lime wash. Right, but where can I order it? I can order it and get it sent to a place and shipped here. Like, that's probably what I'll have to do to get it because I don't know anyone, I don't know, maybe I can investigate more. MCT oil is a supplement made from a type of fat called medium chain triglycerides. I don't know, I don't get in all this fancy supplement stuff. I just eat food. That's kind of what I've always been doing and it's worked so far, but like, I don't know, I feel like, I feel like once you get into all these supplements and the chemistry and all this other stuff, it could really just eat a lot of time. I just figure, if I just eat well, I should be fine, right? Okay, oil that affects appetite, it's medium chain triglyceride oil, and it's coconut oil. Well, I eat coconut, so I get coconut oil. Wonderful and super good for you. Well, excellent. I'm eating coconuts, which have coconut oil, so I think I'm covered. Beauty. MCT molecules are smaller than those in most of the fancy long chain triglycerides. This makes them easier to digest. You can absorb MCT in your bloodstream quickly. Yeah, I don't know, I don't need to know all that. I just eat the coconut and it's like, I have other stuff I'm working on, you know. I'm glad someone is working on that though, figuring that stuff out. The small hardware store could probably order it for you. Yeah, I could probably get the hydrated lime ordered. I don't know, they might not even know what I'm talking about. I have to find somebody who can speak English or figure out what it's going to be called in Spanish at the hardware store where they likely have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyway, this turns into energy you can use. Someone sent Jamie a bag of lime. The hardware store is next to Circus City. Oh, great. Just right over there. I'll just go to the Home Depot actually. Oh, I know why I didn't think of that. Hey, sorry I'm late, but good to catch alive again. Hope you have been having fun with a 3D printer. I have been having fun with a 3D printer. A lot of fun actually. Let's see, let me just reload my messages. I think I'm at the end of them right here. Oh, look, I've almost been going on for two hours. Someone sent Jamie some snacks. When I first moved off-grid, there were actually several of these stores near me in Vermont, the Dented Can stores, because they were the stores where the almost expired food would end up from all the local grocery stores. So you could go there and get really cheap, almost expired food and sometimes actually expired food. But there was this one particular store that always had a big box of energy bars, like power bars and super-duper giant bars. And there was this one Jumbo one that was 800 calories. I always got that one. But I'd go in there with 10 bucks and buy 100 bars, and that would be my snacks during the middle of the day. I'd always eat a good breakfast and then a good dinner. And then I shouldn't say always, but usually. And then in the middle of the day, I would just eat these energy bars. The hydrated lime concrete mix is likely more similar to Roman concrete. I made a bunch of birdbaths that would freeze and thaw, and then the cracks would seal up with the lime. That is cool. Yeah, I need to get some of this lime and some snacks. Whoa, you guys got me thinking about snacks. I have a bunch of fried rice here I'm going to eat as soon as I get off this. Oh, we're going to put hot sauce in it. Oh, it's delicious. The lime can be made, but you need a lot of shells. That is true. I've tried making lime with the shells. And I don't know if I made it right or not. I need to play with it some more. Yeah, anyway. Learned how good plaster is for dealing with moisture and ceramic. It takes the extra water out of clay. Most walls before World War II were made of it. I see. Last week, I got told not to go through the old electronics bin at uni. Oh, really? Ah, it's lame. Man, I remember the first time they told me not to root around a junkyard. And I was like, no, this is the end of civilization. It's all downhill from here. And I was right. It's all downhill, man. First iteration of the birdbaths had leaks after the first winner. Second or third time iteration was impressively watertight. That is cool. One of you guys needs to send me a link or just email me a description of what you do with this hydrated lime, like how much you mix into your concrete and stuff. Because that sounds awesome. You rock, Jamie. Stay awesome. You too, Vasco. I love to cook pilaf style rice with sultans. With the sultans? Do you get sultans to come over? Maybe. Oh, no. Sultanas, sorry. I thought sultans were coming to eat your rice with you. Sultanas left over fry up very nicely. Yeah. Thanks for the hosting, Jamie. Good luck. Everything looks rad. Talk again soon. Yeah, I'll see you guys next week, most likely. Sounds like the lime concrete mix would make great roof tiles. Yeah, no kidding. This makes me think that I should go over the entire roof with this lime stuff and put enough on it that it'll maybe even mix it with some, you know, put some mortar up there and just, yeah, fill in cracks. And then it would just be an extra layer of not leakage things. All right, let's see. That was before I gave up most cereals. Around 95% successful or more cereal are basically survival foods. So I prefer to eat more vegetables, etc. Yeah, no kidding. All right, I'm gonna go eat some fried rice. And I hope you guys have an excellent time doing whatever you're doing. And I am gonna get out of here and enjoy the downfall of civilization since they don't let you do the junk art thing anymore. Okay, where's the button? There's the button.