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Summary
part 2 of a 3 part podcast
Paul and Steven continue to discuss the state of the jungle.
Paul returns to the theme of reworking the better world book, there may be scope to rework it into something aimed at apartment dwellers. Someone told him that the original is "too earthy" for them. Paul is still trying for the book that 100 million people will read. He wonders if people get put off by reading about big things they have no way of doing, like
rocket mass heaters or hügelkulturs.
Another thing that's lined up is a new hügelkultur presentation on Youtube. The same material can also be the basis for a book, but that's probably more than a year away. Steven was ambivalent about hügelkulturs until he made the GAMCOD one, which being only about 5ft high is easily accessed and harvested. He's now a convert to smaller more manageable hügelkulturs.
Paul and Mud are working on a new
project "more heat with half the wood" which is about devising ways to add mass to a regular
wood stove so that it can store heat like an
RMH does. This could be a future movie/book combo for a kickstarter.
Paul also says he has a bunch of other ideas he's working on which he hasn't put on the list.
They discuss the apparent decline in interest in RMHs. They note that people visiting the lab in the cold season often don't manage the heat in the cabins well because they're busy doing stuff all day and then by night time they can't be bothered with learning to work an
RMH. Steven has a solution to this: when events are happening, if he had
enough boots, he could assign a boot to go around the cabins making sure that fires were lit so that people are happier while visiting.
Paul is disappointed that BEL is not moving as far or fast as he'd hoped. They agree that the financial incentive of being able to get money for making BEL posts might make people keener to join boot camp, but for that to work BEL needs to be funded consistently.
There are some technical issues related to the internet: The server is being overloaded by bots demanding too much from it. Paul's solution is to devise very lightweight pages to
feed the bots which don't overload the server. The new server has been delayed but is nearly ready for deployment. The other issue is that the whole email thing is fucked. Unfortunately, solving that is terminally boring so nobody wants to do it. Paul's convinced that bad guys are sabotaging it.
Paul declares that there are about 500 things which could usefully be the subject of Youtube videos, however, people aren't making any. Steven suggests selecting a "top 3": that way if people ask about making videos they can be told "the top 3 we want to make are...". The top 3 would get updated any time one is made.
Relevant Threads
GAMCOD 2024: 200 square feet; Zero degrees F or colder; calories cheap and easy
GAMCOD forum
Back the BEL, Ring the BEL (Bootcamp Experience Log)
Building a Better World in your Backyard by Paul Wheaton and Shawn Klassen-Koop
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