“How many lives would be saved if there was an economical alternative to wood.”
Every grandchild’s dream is to grow up and inherit grandma’s beautiful genuine plastic dining table.
BS. Wood cost just over half to use compared to other materials.
Use concrete? OK, Lets see. Got to mine the sand, screen it, wash it, then mix it with cement that has to be mined, baked and trucked. Then mold the blocks, then cure them, then truck them to the building site, lay them, reinforce them...
Steel? Got to mine it, make pellets out of it, then ship the pellets by train, then by ship, smelt it, roll it, ship it to the supplier, then erect it...
Wood? Log it, ship the logs to a mill, saw it, plane it, ship it to the lumber yards and then to the builder who erects it.
It costs just abt 10 dollars a ton to produce 2.3 thousand bd feet of roundwood for milling. Abt 10 bucks a ton to truck it to the mill. Go ahead and compare that to iron ore pellets from the mine to the mill. Those pellets have to be baked and rolled at the pellet mill also.