Why wood pulp is world's new wonder material

Post by ftwinnovations » Tue, Sep 11, 2012, 3:15 AM UTC

soperj wrote: post #19

mistercow wrote: post #10

>it is made from a tightly packed array of needle-like crystals which have a strength-to-weight ratio that is eight times better than stainless steel. That's a pretty useless thing to say. What kind of strength? Tensile? Shear? Yield? Maybe this figure is buried somewhere in the paper they linked to, but not in any easy to find place.

Looks like they're probably talking about Tensile strength. ( http://www.celluforce.com/en/product_properties.php )

Post by maxerickson » Tue, Sep 11, 2012, 2:29 PM UTC

nl wrote: post #47

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #14

tl;dr: US Forestry Service: We have too many trees ! How can we sell more of them in a declining building market? The US Forestry service (certainly by Bill Bryson) is regarded as in thrall with loggers (builds roads for access to heavy equipment, sells trees at a loss acting as a subsidy provider etc.) So the idea that the great new industry, that involves chopping down trees, should be owned by US forestry service,…

The US Forestry service (certainly by Bill Bryson) is regarded as in thrall with loggers (builds roads for access to heavy equipment, sells trees at a loss acting as a subsidy provider etc.) You seem surprised by this? The clue is the name: Forestry service - it exists to provide service to the forestry industry. BUT this isn't necessarily a bad thing! A properly managed forestry industry is a good thing: it provides…

Post by _gd3l » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 1:49 PM UTC

ozborn wrote: post #50

_gd3l wrote: post #49

Sad that hemp is overlooked, it's truly a wonder material. So much so that it sounds fake. http://www.informationdistillery.com/hemp.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_Wears_No_Clothes

It isn't overlooked, follow the link to the technical report. http://www.tappi.org/Hide/Events/2012-Nanotechnology-Confere...