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Hemp is the answer to ‘no more plastic’ and it strengthens cement too.
@Dude It’sAmy Oh yes, You have to use everything possible without neglecting anything.
@SAMCA San Andreas where are you getting your information? Hempcrete is not concrete!! It’s unfortunate it was even named hempcrete because so many people think concrete. It is not anything like concrete. It is not load bearing!! It is a wonderful insulator etc. But would still need a load bearing structure/frame. Please stop perpetuating the myth that hempcrete is as strong or stronger than concrete.
@Dude It’sAmy I have taken powdered hemp fibre and added it to bagged concrete mix. Then banged on it with sledgehammers after it cured. That’s where I am getting my information. The regular concrete mix broke apart. The mixes I added hemp to didn’t.
@SAMCA San Andreas well that’s great and all but the already named and existing product hempcrete is not powdered hemp fiber mixed with bagged quickcrete. It is hemp hurds, lime, and water. So maybe call your experimental creation something else so people aren’t even more confused. Keep on keeping on tho cuz experimentation and more data is always a need.
@Dude It’sAmy that’s great mate but the original comment was about adding hemp to cement. That does make a product that is stronger than standard concrete and many people refer to this as hempcrete.
Well, climate disaster is gonna be next year?
I feel a sudden urge to register all the software on my PC.
Use Linux…
Hahaha!!!
When did science become fiction, exactly?
Probably always has been, tbh… But DEFINITELY when it started claiming that the immune system, which has allegedly been facilitating the advancing evolution of humanity for millennia, needs to be artificially manipulated in order to do its job.
Untuk di masa depan nanti, saya ole dari bogor 🙂
Where is Chris Anderson? Haven’t seen him from a while!
What do you think of Bjørn Lomborg’s work?
In 2021, there is no science, only politics.
Mr. Gates is neither of it. He is a wannabe philanthropist.
Brings a whole new definition to the phrase “political science,” doesn’t it?
Everyone trying to make Gates out to be a scapegoat are just ignorant sheeple.
Your comment shows astounding ignorance
Imagine a picture of regular people throwing $$ up into the air, as the paper bills collect the CO2 roaming in the atmosphere absorbing the suns blistering heat too, then falling to the Earth and cooling off. Where it then floats into the opened pockets of the charlatans of this malfeasances of humanity.
Blocking out the sun won’t help
Feels like we are
Living on the
Universe 25
The economic system that’s ruining the world is going to save it! A bit early for april fools, no?
Haha global warming is just not true .. this guy is very dangerous for humanity!!
Oh and a Mr know it all
Wrong bill. Food production contributes up to 40% of total ghg emissions. Selling tech to solve that problem is a good business to be in.
You yourself, dear reader, contributing to climate change through your choices: food, electricity provider, plastic usage, and so on.
change starts from the self first, then it alters the surroundings.
make your choices carefully you have power.
This man is more evil than satan himself .
One big volcanic eruption puts out more pollution than the history of mankind . !!!! Ooooops .