Posted on 02/26/2019 10:46:38 AM PST by rktman
It also magnifies the extreme weather it shelters us from. Taking in all stages of production, concrete is said to be responsible for 4-8% of the world’s CO2. Among materials, only coal, oil and gas are a greater source of greenhouse gases. Half of concrete’s CO2 emissions are created during the manufacture of clinker, the most-energy intensive part of the cement-making process.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Yeah!
That’s the ticket!
Every time I hear some dingbat leftist talk about “climate change”, I start yelling at the radio...
“You first! Let’s see how that works.”
And?
Start with tearing down the Hoover damn?
Hopefully not much concrete is used on Guam or it might tip over.
Go live in a mud and stick hut, Jonathan.
I love concrete...amazing stuff.
At my last job in Canada, we poured 45,000 cu yds of concrete...some pours were 36-hours continuous. Many of the major pours were done in below zero temps...had YUGE insulated blankets and heaters.
Concrete QA/QC techs are as much artists as engineers.
Well played, sir.
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♫ now we know how many loads it takes to fill the Albert Hall
But they just started 3-D printing cheap concrete houses for the poor. Doesn’t Alexandria Alan Harper’s Girlfriend Cortez want that?
Well, we lived in corrugated metal quonset huts when I was there. Way before tipping was on the table. Like ‘47-’49 as a wee baby. ;-)
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Charlie would not date her! She’s cray-cray-crayzier than Rose, who is BS crazy!
I would like to see the writer of this article, Jonathan Watts, come to Texas on a clear summer day, walk barefoot on an asphalt road, which many Texas roadways are made of, at high noon, and then walk on a road made of concrete under the same conditions.
I would then like him to tell me which is hotter.
I guess he could use an infrared thermometer, but watching him
dance around barefoot on that asphalt would be more fun to watch.
Animal Skins? Nope, that would upset Peta and the vegan mafia.
Corrugated iron? Upset greenies digging up iron ore.
Cardboard? Nope
Plastic? Big nope
Hemp? Maybe
So it looks like sticks and mud could be a go.
Anything that makes life possible for the peasants is bad.
Or maybe turning over like Guam or even worse...
falling out of its orbit.....
There are a lot of countries that have not much of a domestic lumber industry - should the people in India live in grass huts? Maybe with some scotch guard to keep the monsoons out?
Well, we lived in corrugated metal quonset huts when I was there. Way before tipping was on the table. Like ‘47-’49 as a wee baby. ;-)
Concrete for me, but not for thee.
5.56mm
Hmm. People use concrete quite a bit. Are they suggesting an alternative, beside genocide?
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