my name is Douglas Coulter DIY engineer
I was a bellboy bandit in the security
business or the as it's otherwise known
in the intelligence community
I have been a racecar driver I'm
currently a gunsmith and competitive
shooter one inch ha owner and purveyor
of Technology when I feel like it this
is our primary Neutron detector which I
built my title now is I guess
philosopher-king and a whole bunch of
other stuff before we're in beautiful
Floyd County which is truly heaven
unlike West Virginia which is only
almost heaven this is the entrance to my
toy room or box full of creative chaos
whatever you want to call it pretty much
built this house myself and this is how
we get all of our power this is my
fourth try at homesteading this is the
one I'm finally happy with I run a
scientific technical engineering forum a
very open source oriented we essentially
exist to reveal trade secrets secrets of
oil the electroplating company to sell
you three gallons of complicated
solution which is six dollars worth of
chemicals for five hundred dollars what
I managed to do is collect a bunch of
other guys like me
get them to tell their secrets software
machining chemistry nuclear stuff like I
do how to make your own guns and ammo is
a new thing the importance of open
source for me is that when we don't have
it we lose information we lose our
cultures open sourcing things is
empowering for everybody involved in it
I teach you you teach me I think it's
the way we were meant to be I learned to
do electrical engineering with parts
scavenge from dumpsters from behind a TV
store so I had to learn how to design
things with what I had
cooled off yet I would like to turn off
this noisy fan this is a gorilla
engineered fusion reactor we started
with parts all designed to do something
else so for instance one of our cooling
fans came out of a computer system see
there's a lot of seconds when we get no
radiation this is actually one of the
most radiation quiet places on this
planet the clicks I hope you're hearing
our fusion taking place in my fusion
reactor we haven't set really low
because I am trying to not froggies a
nice cameramen this is what I do for fun
and giggles we could scale this to any
size and a power to replace all the
electric companies on the planet all of
the gasoline companies on the planet the
Holy Grail all of fusion is to make this
into a usable power source and it will
power everything for the rest of forever
on this earth without polluting the
earth if not me who big science has been
failing this miserably they're unable to
do anything quickly everything is
meetings and bureaucracy and here it's
just can I make Fusion work no one's
getting in my way I'm not getting
anybody else's way it's me against the
universe this was once a scanning
electron microscope that we bought at
the junk weight of stayed in the steel
and so instead of paying $25,000 for it
like you would have to right now if you
bought it new we paid 375 dollars it's
covered with lead because the fusion
reaction and other things that go on in
here make a lot of x-rays what good
would be succeeding at this if I didn't
live through it you're not going to turn
into three I'd turn over all if you put
more radiation on your flight in here
than you
I'm watching this thing run bull snot I
think we're fairly close assuming the
idea that I have right now is the key
we're no longer talking decades now
we're talking years you know we put in
heavy water or protons and lithium when
we come out with more power than we put
in if this works I'm about to anger
several trillion dollar a year
businesses the ultimate goal being to
come up with a clean source of power
save the world from having to kill each
other over oil and I'm open sourcing all
this not because I care that they steal
it for me I care if they steal it from
you as you can tell we're in gun country
and it's a good place to be a gunsmith
because practically everybody else that
lives here is a wood Smith so I get a
lot of business from the woodworkers for
when they need special tools or in
either guns fakes or whatever I have
some of my gun collection out here I
don't shoot this gun this is a
teenager's wet dream it's not really a
very good gun for a gun guard I bought
it because I thought I wanted something
really amazing and impressive but
something goes wrong both this thing
fires while you're closing the bolt
you're dead
this is really not a practical gun if I
wanted to take out the stoplight and the
town twelve miles over I could why would
I want to do that basically we have a
half hollow log here that we're going to
put a pound of explosives in and try to
split it so that the pieces are small
enough to handle with my chainsaw and
because it's fun we're shooting from
that bench over there
what is this sixty yards
this is a Ruger m77 mark two that I have
extensively gunsmith very very stable
ready go did it work is that how we
split what in the country yes I'm happy
I'm a happy guard I have a non-violent
happy guy who likes being left alone
except when I want friend you know I
want to be with people occasionally I
get lonely oh this is a pretty isolated
places you've noticed but it's not as
isolated as you think we practice the
thing here I called libertarian
communism everybody does what they want
nobody tells anybody what we do but if
somebody is down you know then the rest
of this will bring them back up the
darwinian class forces work pretty
strong around here if you're a good guy
you can be here if you're not a good guy
it's gonna be really hard no money ever
changes hands we just do nice things for
each other because we're all nice people
it's heaven I've worked my whole life to
get to where I am and if I'm not happy
I'd be a frigging idiot you know I've
made my dreams come true by a hard
honest work I have no regrets
other than I smoked I would rather not
smoke
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