News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearly limitless batteries.

Re:Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearl... by dontrustme on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:33PM (#36959371)
Your average architect is barely managing the coordination of their structural, electrical, mechanical, civil, and plumbing engineers. As green adaptive technology accelerates, it deeply concerns me that our notoriously slow moving construction and design industry will fail to incorporate these technologies and deliver the built environment we need to succeed against climate change.

This technology is great, but the real breakthrough will be getting someone like Lennar homebuilders to incorporate this into their constructions by default.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearl... by AlexandrB on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:51PM (#36959655)
> This technology is great.

Not yet it's not. There's a world of difference between using samples of concrete "about the size of a button" and scaling up to something the size of the foundation of a house.

And that just gets it to "buildable". To get to "ubiquitous" it also has to be cheap.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearl... by datavirtue on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:51PM (#36960626)
Use law.
[ Parent | on HN ]