Wood as strong as steel

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18 Feb 2018, 2:01 pm

Seem like some newly developed treatment on wood make it as strong as steel.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476

(French article)
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1084156/bois-plus-fort-acier-metal-alliage-titane-chimie-materiau-construction

With a little luck cities will have nice architecture again, rather that those concrete monstrosities.

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18 Feb 2018, 11:15 pm

I read about this the other day. Very interesting.

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20 Feb 2018, 6:23 pm

No, this is bad, it would destroy more forests.

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21 Mar 2018, 6:58 am

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

No, this is bad, it would destroy more forests.

Isn't mining the iron to make steel bad too

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21 Mar 2018, 7:30 am

Don't worry---we'll stop mining iron when there's no longer enough left in the Earth's crust to make it profitable. Renewable resources, on the other hand, ... er, ...

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21 Mar 2018, 8:27 am

I could be wrong, but I vaguely remember something about treating wood to become strong as steel was already done in WWII. Maybe that the process has been substantially optimized.

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