InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel

Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by lukan on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:44AM (#44029263)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortar_(masonry)

You can recycle them. And raw stones are not a rare thing and they do get formed new constantly inside the earth.

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by soulofmischief on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:49AM (#44030497)

I also took physical science courses in middle school. Just because new stones are formed within the earth's crust at some marginal rate does not mean that they are considered a renewable resource.

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by lukan on Monday May 19, 2025 @01:36PM (#44032416)

Have you every watched a vulcano spit out lava?

I wouldn't call that marginal. And vulcanoes are just the visible part of that process happening everywhere in the crust.

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by soulofmischief on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @10:55AM (#44042347)

We're talking about stone in general. Volcanic stone is one type of stone, which does not cover all of the applications of stone as used in buildings, masonry and other industries today. I also specifically addressed volcanic stones in a sister comment.

Some rate of formation is not enough to satisfy the commonly held definition of renewable resources. Google "is stone a renewable resource" for a jumping off point.

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by wsintra2022 on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:38AM (#44029763)

Iceland architects trying it out next to volcanoes, funnel the molten stuff into building material mounds of some kind

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by soulofmischief on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:50AM (#44030509)

I think that's pretty neat but lava stone is a very particular type of stone with particular properties, suited for specific applications, where as the typical stone you will see in masonry and building materials is not renewable.

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by zchrykng on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:34AM (#44030339)

If we run out of stone, we have lots of other problems.

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by soulofmischief on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:47AM (#44030485)

That's a non-sequitur. Stone is not considered a renewable resource, which is typically defined as a resource which naturally replenishes itself over time at a meaningful rate compared to the rate of consumption.

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by lukan on Monday May 19, 2025 @01:38PM (#44032457)

Do we really consume more stone, than gets relenished? Is that a assumption or well studied topic?

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by soulofmischief on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @12:46PM (#44043539)

It's my assumption based on the fact that we continually mine new portions of the earth over time. Trees and other life exist within regenerative chemical cycles, whereas rock formation is a physical process that consumes some limited supply of material on Earth. I would love to know more about this as well, if you come across any resources.

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by zchrykng on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:40PM (#44045686)

My point is that "renewable resource" is a fairly meaningless term when applied to stone. Sure, we technically have a finite amount of it on the planet, but we also can't possibly use it all up. Not unless we have technology that would allow us to travel outside the solar system, at which point the limited amount of stone is also moot.

Sure, it doesn't fit the definition, but there is also no reason to care that it doesn't.

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Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ... by danielheath on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:58AM (#44029377)

... where the mantle meets the crust?

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