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I can't recommend Kirsten Dirksen's channel enough to people interested in architecture, energy efficiency, tiny homes, 'green' construction, etc. Literally hundreds of hours of high-quality content - I'm really curious how she is able to find all of these interesting people who are doing such cool things.

Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsElQQt_gCZ9LgnW-7v-cQ

Some other favorites:

Baubotanik shapes living tree branches into building facades - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQdcfiLfgUY

Boeing retiree finds meaning inventing micro homes & high speed trikes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdyR2zzjGWw

Extreme transformer home in Hong Kong: Gary Chang's 24 rooms in 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB2-2j9e4co

Earth-cooled, shipping container underground CA home for 30K - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0oFJ2jbkDI

Yokohama narrow tiny house "breathes" & attracts local nature - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mzj63TJYn4

As well as having great content, the format of her videos is also top-notch. It's way too common to see architecture videos where the camera won't linger more than 5 seconds on anything else than some random zoomed-up composition.

In her videos, you can actually appreciate and immerse yourself in the spaces and the various details. The videos are usually between 10 and 20 minutes and she's not afraid to push it further if there's enough content.

Unfortunately the camera is wobbling a lot which gives me an headache. I cannot watch that. :(

Completely agree.

One of my favorite Kirsten Dirksen videos is about Russ Finch using geothermal energy to grow citrus in a greenhouse located near Alliance, NE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk

Second that. That was such a great watch!

I want to take two tesla motors, which according to the tesla tear-down, cost $750 each, then take (2) battery packs - place these into the base as a powertrain to a 20’ unit(s) stacked two tall, such that you have a two-story “tiny-home” which can be moved with ease...

Make it draped with solars which can be pushed out as A-frame or other configs.

And all of this can be done for <$100k

This is my goal.

Cool idea. 20' might be hard to transport... I think a lot of overpasses only clear 13ish feet. You might think about designing a mechanism to lower the roof for transportation.

Check out this crazy transforming mobile tiny house https://youtu.be/CnHGKUh-5O4

WOW

That was awesome. Thank you for sharing that.

> I'm really curious how she is able to find all of these interesting people who are doing such cool things.

Her popularity in the area probably means that people inform her of relevant things. I believe that's true for a lot of youtubers.

Wonderful, thank you so much.

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