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Re:'Liquid gold': students make world's first brick out of h... by tyingq on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:04AM (#18301426)
"world’s first brick made from human urine" seems a bit strong.

Maybe there are even earlier ones, but this is from 2010: https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/architect-grow...

Edit: Ahh, I guess the nuance is that the first effort used extracted urea versus actually using urine.

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Re:'Liquid gold': students make world's first brick out of h... by dumbfoundded on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:03PM (#18303033)
Yeah, I thought that was a bit humorous. It seems like the original experiments didn't want to do a field test.
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