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CitricThoughts t1_j92s237 wrote

The material they use to make it strong is vulnerable to water, so they put it in wood which likes to absorb moisture?

This'll probably be the cross-laminated wood bridges all over again. For those that don't know over in europe they tried making a bunch of bridges out of clw. They ended up collapsing not long after from regular traffic because moisture weakened the bridges.

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chelsea_sucks_ t1_j92rqy5 wrote

Holy shit dude you could post expired news articles for your conspiracies or you could read the one that's been published yesterday

>Malawi detected the wild poliovirus disease in a young child in its capital, Lilongwe, in February last year — the first time the strain was reported in Africa in five years. The virus spread to neighboring Mozambique, causing other countries in the region to be on alert.

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FantasmaNaranja t1_j92nkwq wrote

vanilla has been artificially pollinated since an at the time slave (Edmond Albius) created a technique to artificially pollinate its flowers (when he was just 12 years old) which made the crop incredibly profitable afterwards

a lot of fruits grown in places without their natural pollinators are also artificially pollinated

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citytiger OP t1_j92m9rz wrote

You obviously have no understanding of what zoos do. They are not solely for entertainment. These animals weren’t taken from the wild. This is all they’ve ever known.

Many zoos are actively engaged in conservation and breeding programs.

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aggieotis t1_j92ku3x wrote

Yes and…

Engineered wood really just means they take bits of wood that are all oriented in the right direction and then squeeze and glue those together. It means much less wood can have much more strength because most wood has knots or other bits that weaken it structurally so you have to over spec traditional lumber.

So it’s stronger and you need less of it.

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Worldly-Fishman t1_j92fgjj wrote

Not to speak on the credibility or potential of this article, 'cancer cure' level headlines do come and go. But I agree, non-fossil fuel energies used to be wildly expensive and more impractical years ago, now solar and wind are close to among the cheapest. If engineered wood could be a viable option and replacement for razing forests one day, then why not?

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