Forget Concrete: Scientists Created a Living Building Material That Grows, Breathes, and Repairs Its Own Cracks
Forget Concrete: Scientists Created a Living Building Material That Grows, Breathes, and Repairs Its Own Cracks
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This material is reminiscent of Roman self-repairing concrete, but is a living material. Over time, it absorbs carbon from the air and transforms it into calcium carbonate.
Currently, the material is being tested for longer-term durability outside the laboratory environment at the Venice Biennale. It will be exciting to see if this material succeeds and if so, learn more about costs and other factors that would affect adoption. So many promising technologies work beautifully in the lab but are difficult or impossible to implement on a large enough scale to make a difference.
Fascinating to consider this as a way to limit/capture emissions.
That’s the Stuff and you aren’t going to convince me otherwise.
This is kinda like the concrete the nazis stole from the jews in Wolfenstein.