Jaimie Mantzel, the Original "Adventure Builder" and Mad Scientist Extraordinaire, Has Joined Steemit!
Profile here. Introductory post here. Patreon here. If you don't already know what a big deal Jaimie is on Youtube and irl, sit back and let me regale you with tales of his various feats. This is a guy who spent 6 years building an actual, working giant robot that really walks:
He built himself a fully off-grid, geodesic dome house with trampoline bed:
He then moved his family to an island be bought in Panama, whereupon he constructed a solar powered houseboat for them to live in, as well as a number of smaller solar powered watercraft:
All in service of a larger goal. A concrete fortress that would become his family's new primary residence:
But even to get that far, he needed to build his own construction equipment. Including a solar powered bulldozer(!) which he made out of scraps, Tony Stark style:
This guy is like the indie Elon Musk. Not trying to get to Mars, just to make life on Earth a little bit more awesome. His creativity and drive have long been an inspiration to me, along with his Adventure Builder philosophy of life. He's gone and done all this to show it can be done. None of us have to accept the hand we're dealt. Life is what we make of it.
From now on he'll be posting his Youtube content and perhaps some added commentary here on Steemit. He's certainly one of the bright lights of the world and we're lucky to have him, so if you're interested in following his remarkable, inventive life on Adventure Builder Island, check out his content!
Stay Cozy!
@alexbeyman,
Whoops I never heard of him! Look what we talked so far he built! Yeah like you said not to live in Mars, but to live awesome life at Earth! WTF we didn't heard about him on STEEMIT! That's a big shame indeed! Thank you dude!
Cheers~
Waoh, am so glad about this. This really shows that steemit has gone far higher than we expected. Am going to check his blog, am addicted to scientific fun
This is very exciting news. I loved the videos you reviewed about his dome. When I showed them to my wife she rolled her eyes and said, "why are there so many of you people on the internet?"
The answer, of course, is that we were always here but we had to invent the internet so that we could find each other.
Haha! Well said. Before that we just hunkered down in castles with our hunchback assistants and worked on our scientific affronts to nature in seclusion. Btw the webcomic Girl Genius has coined a term for us that I really like and want to popularize.
Quoted from Girl Genius:
This is almost too perfect. I build nuclear reactors for submarines as my day job.
Wow, that's really cool. Have you heard of FlexBlue, the French project to build seafloor nuclear reactors near land? I covered it partway through this article. They want to use the same facilities where nuclear subs are built to manufacture stripped down versions with no propulsion, crew quarters, weapons, etc. Just the inner pressure hull, life support and the reactor. Power would then be sent to shore over a long cable.
The idea is it would be surrounded by free coolant, the external water pressure would prevent Fukushima style containment dome explosions in the event of failure, and seawater is excellent at blocking ionizing radiation. The seafloor location is also especially secure against terrorism.
Wow! That post was two years old. You must be one of the very first Steemians.
The FlexBlue idea is very easy to do. The only question is whether or not it is worth it to submerge them in coastal seas or would it be better to put them in the ground. Cable to send power is expensive and expensive to maintain. If you can put a reactor below ground near a city is is much easier to afford.
The US Department of Energy is interested in the concept of a Small Modular Reactor, which is very similar to the FlexBlue idea. The DOE would prefer to make them in the form of rail cars that can be buried underground and will run for 50 years. At that point the reactor is worn out and the fuel is spent, so you just abandon it in place and install a new one.
The only real problem with the idea is the price of natural gas. Right now the gas prices are so low that you can install gas turbines and never have to worry about the n-word. Nuclear is a long term commitment but the investment in infrastructure is driven by short term profit.
Fascinating, I'm glad I followed you. I am slowly building up my collection of like minded clever people on this site. :) Indeed, I am among the first users of this site. You'd think I'd be doing better.
Of course I am biased in favor of FlexBlue's approach because it's one of a vanishingly small number of applications that's profitable enough to warrant the creation and long term emplacement of underwater habitats. There's just not many things you need such structures for that can't be done without them, and that's profitable enough to justify the outlay.
If Flexblue goes forward, their reactor habitats will be the largest stationary manned undersea structures in history.
I'm very impressed. I didn't know about him and now i will spend some hours checking his youtube videos. Such an awesome guy! :)
I'll check this guy out. I am always happy to see YouTubers show up here. That is how I found this place and I feel like they bring some of their audiance with them which is good for the site.
Steemit is gradually getting bigger and better. It's nice to have more intellectual beings on this platform. It makes learning and earning much more fun.
Thanks @alexbeyman for introducing him.
he does have interesting videos and accomplished great projects.
Waow man I didn't knew him before.
But I saw the spider robot , mehn it's huge and the best use of solar energy on a boat.
This is really great news.
This is the kind of people who'd make steemit even greater.
I'll check that out, seems like my kind of content.