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.
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#43 if so then they will uncover all the people buried in the concrete during the construction... : )
Their chariot groves set the modern day railroad gauge.
As usual the Left leaves it to readers to infer that the US is the cause of this ‘problem’. Here’s the Wikipedia numbers:
Top Cement Producing Countries In The World
Rank Country Cement Production (million metric tons), 2014
1 China......2,500
2 India..........280
3 USA............83
Straw is not a reinforcement; it aids the drying of the brick.
People who think this can go back to living in mud huts (and give up every other manufactured material and object as a similar ‘evil’ thing).
Those ‘believers’ now can die worn out a little past the age of 30 as people once did (on average) from the primitive life the so badly want.
Finally an end to the search for jimmy hoffa.
Looks like I need to add to the slab on the side of the house.
You don’t like the smell of dung fires in the morning?
Okay; curative agent, then. However, straw also seems to be an aid to reinforcing bricks made from river clay, in the context I mentioned.
Didn't the news recently say that Kim Jong-un was in need of lots of feces..?? Maybe he has more then he needs now and we can buy some from him....
I saw a 3D concrete printer at a trade show last week. It was making some cool stuff.
Dirt & grass are the best invention in history.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
“Their chariot groves set the modern day railroad gauge.”
History’s finest example of being stuck in a rut.
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