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Finnish man builds inexpensive solar boat and sets off to mediterranian. Gives out the plans for free (m.youtube.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Nickelalloy@lemmy.world to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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So i thought this fits here, he calls the boat Helios 11 and builds it with very little experience. He docunents the adventure quite well and shares what he learns, and also shares all the plans for the boat for free.

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[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

And then there's this German champ hobbying together an entire tank in their basement:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33381772

[–] Nickelalloy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Reminds me of Richards Reactor, a dude in Sweden who attemoted to build a smal scale nuclear reactor of some sort in his apartment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Handl

Not too long ago his blogg was still up, found this but the nuclear stuff is gone:

https://richardsreactor.blogspot.com/2017/02/170222-visit-from-police.html?m=1

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 4 days ago

The man had also been keeping an anti-aircraft gun in his basement

How big is this man's basement??

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

okay you can't just let those sit around. you have to maintain those.