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Re:At 18 Stories, Mjøsa Tower Is World’s Tallest Wooden Buil... by Entalpi on Thursday February 21, 2019 @02:15AM (#19215154)
Concrete production creates large amounts of CO2. Wood production does not.

Also steel production procduces a lot of CO2. So much in fact that some steelworks are switching to hydrogen instead of coalbased for its steel.

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Re:At 18 Stories, Mjøsa Tower Is World’s Tallest Wooden Buil... by 6nf on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:22AM (#19215360)
It would be nice to see some numbers. It might be true that this building created less CO2 but if it cost a lot more than concrete then it may be better to just build concrete and use the money you saved to remove CO2 some other way
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