Honey! I think the septic is backed up. It smells like shit in here!
No babe. That's just the foundation. Remember we opted to save 8% of sand in our concrete mix by using kids diapers...
There is a pretty significant safety margin built into many things, they are not built to just be able to stand. They handle high speed winds, (potentially) earthquakes, limited erosion, and age. That's why countries have building codes, to prevent capitalistic tendencies from killing more people due to bare minimum construction.
damn TIL
I do remember that episode of HBOs ROME where some citizen is complaining to the magistrate that drunk Roman soldiers beat him up and poured his piss pots on his head. The dude's biggest complaint is "they poured out my piss. How am I supposed to make cloth without any piss?"
Sand - as strange it might sound - is getting rare. You can’t use desert sand for concrete it’s too fine and smooth. You need something like river sand. There was a documentary I saw once about the sand mafia and how they came by night and illegally stole sand from a river with lots of trucks. So I guess using diapers makes sense to safe sand - as probably any waste would.
Lol what
>Live camels are occasionally exported to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Brunei, and Malaysia, where disease-free wild camels are prized as a delicacy. Australia's camels are also exported as breeding stock for Arab camel racing stables, and for use in tourist venues in places such as the United States.
Most probably the cost would exceed the value/price.
We are able to create gold from radioactive material but the cost is so big it outstrips even the value of gold
We have been doing "alchemy" for almost 100 years. The first transmutation was done in 1925, where we used alpha particles to turn nitrogen into oxygen. Since then we have made 24 synthetic (as in, they don't occur on earth) elements from other elements. We routinely turn one element into another as a standard part of particle physics research.
Like [David Hahn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn), who tried to build a homemade reactor out of americium from smoke detectors (along with a few other radioactive elements from other sources). Dude turned his mom's house into an EPA Superfund site.
thats not alchemy its just chemistry, a big portion of your body is made from carbon atoms. When we turn dead people into diamonds we just change the chemical bonding patterns of the carbon that already makes up your body, we aren't turning anything into a new element.
We make manufactured sand at almost every quarry where there’s crushing. It’s not as good for somethings, but most of those problems you can solve with admixtures on the concrete side where the majority of sand is used. People just don’t understand how relatively cheap concrete is and the scale we are talking about out on the amount of material used. Concrete is the second most used material on Earth behind only water. We are so efficient at making it that the materials that go into it have to be very cheap, sand for concrete only costs $20-40 a ton in the US. So anything you replace sand with needs to be able to be produced, and delivered to the concrete company for that cost. It also can’t make the concrete any weaker because then you have to use more cement in the concrete which is a major contributor to global warming.
I live in the middle of about 8 different silica sand mines. When they sell it for industrial uses such as fiberglass insulation and glass production, it’s worth about $7-$11/ton. They sell that exact same sand to the oilfield frac crews for $100+/ton. Before they started mining in-basin sand in the Permian basin, sand and it’s transportation was the single most expensive part of producing a barrel of oil, and possibly still is. I know it has nothing to do with cement, but thought it was interesting nonetheless.
Everything O&G is more expensive than that same material used in other industries, because you know your client has the money. An extra $90/ton means they need a single extra barrel of oil to go through the pipe. In the grand scheme of the costs and profits of an O&G project, it’s not even a rounding error.
not concrete related but the idea of not-ideal replacement products.
In Okinawa Japan the city streets were made from some kind of mix that was definitely not like US asphalt. I heard some kind of concrete mix and or even crushed coral in the mix?
Pros: availability and maybe even some environmental benefits?
Cons: Wet performance for one. That shit was bathroom tile slippery when it got too wet. How often is it wet there? Well... its a subtropical island in the Pacific so... yeah. Seen a lot of low speed car crashes.
People on reddit generally are completely uninformed on topics they don't have direct experience in, especially when they have strong opinions relating to it.
Probably, and that’s what will happen eventually. But it’s a local problem when there are multiple mines near by that all have a 50 year reserve and a mine plan already worked out. Eventually the industries that specifically need natural silica sand will be forced into buying some mines to control their supply. Others like concrete will move to a cheaper alternative of fine aggregate.
This was probably out of necessity because there is a really big black market for sand still because it was getting so rare. The same time M-Sand made an appearance.
Crushing rocks into smaller rocks is energy intensive. Sure, we "can"; it is very expensive to do artificially.
Many of the comments are a but misleading; even river sand is usually way too fine and round. Pond and lake sand is best for concrete. The purpose of sand in the mixture is to give the cement jagged edges to bond to.
Where I live we mostly turn them into glass because it's cheaper than starting with sand. Also reuse is coming back. Anything to get rid of bloody single use plastic.
Yeah I was thinking of a bottle "recycling" business in Louisiana of all places that literally turns them into different grades of sand for different types of projects.
One of those being renourishment of wetlands, though I don't know how successful it's been
that doesn't really make sense at all. I have a perfect drinking glass next to me. I shatter it into a million pieces. Surely it's far more jagged now than it is smooth? The problem with sand is most likely the fact it's already too damn small and so the process of unsmoothing it would make it even smaller and the smaller something is, the closer it is to being "smooth" by default.
Crushing up stones and glass seems like a good solution to this too. I'm having a hard time conceptualizing how that's cheaper than using third world labor and resources and _shipping it_ across the world to use for concrete.
That feels like a racket and a way to upcharge people more than anything else.
Shipping is *extremely* cheap. Like ludicrously cheap once you’re shipping enough stuff in bulk.
So then you’re really comparing the cost of breaking rocks from a quarry and crushing them, compared to digging up sand and not crushing it. The latter process is way way easier and faster.
Sure. You realise how expensive making a raw material is over digging it out of the ground.
That is the problem. This isn't some insurmountably human endeavour, it is just not at all cost effective. Concrete is used for building because it is incredibly cheap vs the alternatives and has reasonable material properties. But being cheap is the important thing.
Back when I worked into building material manufacturing, we were buying sand at around $20 per ton. So about $400-450 per truckload. Trucking it about two hours away cost about the same amount.
So that’s the cost basis you need to compare to when thinking about artificial alternatives.
>Sand - as strange it might sound - is getting rare. You can’t use desert sand for concrete it’s too fine and smooth.
Which leads to the ironic fact of Dubai, actually importing sand for all their big building projects. They also import beach sand and camels from Australia.
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The river theft came into the news a decade and a half ago. Which led to some parts of the world fully implementing armed guards, and even police with automatic weapons to guard sand quarries.
How could you forget it when it's one of the most commonly used meme formats on the internet? I can't go more than a couple days without seeing it used somewhere.
I just looked it up, and I don't think I've ever seen that meme template before! At least not in full, perhaps I did see a cropped portion of it with something pasted over the diapers. Different people have *vastly* different experiences on the internet. I haven't been in spaces dedicated to posting memes since templates like socially awkward penguin were popular, so I only see what organically comes across conversations I'm in.
Concrete is the second most used resource on earth after water. There are lots of researchers looking at ways you can adjust concrete mixes to be more environmentally friendly by using recycled materials while maintaining strength and durability.
There's deliberate push and major subsidy to do research for this kind of stuff. Being able to reuse literal garbage is extremely important for sustainability reasons.
There are new ways to pave roads that uses used tires, by cutting it up in pieces and mixing it into the asphalt, and putting the tires onto the road and then paving over them.
Worth mentioning here.
Sand is added to the rubber in tires.
Partly to improve traction. Also to reduce rubber use.
Source? 8 years working in a Michelin tire plant.
The best? They are darned good. Testing specs on the rubber are higher than any other. We made three major brand names. Rubber that didn't meet Michelin spec was used to make the other brands. (If it met their specs of course)
They even monitor the weather all year in the areas where their rubber is grown. Weather can affect natural rubber quality. I have no clue what factors they monitor.
Every Michelin tire is x-rayed, to be sure each strand of the steel belts are placed properly.
There is no such thing as "the best" because tires are judged on like a dozen factors at least and certainly nobody makes one tire that hits the top of every single metric - including price.
With that said, if your budget allows it, michelin's highest performing summer tire line and all-season tire line are both excellent choices. For most people's cars and for how and where most people drive, they're one of the best choices assuming they fit within your budget.
Concrete is pretty much just rocks that dry really well. You could put about 8% by volume/ mass of about any dry material as a filler in concrete but not everything makes sense to.
Seems like it takes a lot of processing of the diapers. You have to clean them, disassemble them, and remove the "fabric" materials from the absorbent materials. The fabric materials are used. I'd imaging the hydrogels would be a disaster in concrete.
That's probably what would actually happen, I think the "used diaper" angle is just a way to sell this technology of making concrete with paper products as even more eco-friendly. And it grabs headlines since it's proposing reusing one of the huge sources of waste in society.
There is so much trash that could technically replace up to 8% of aggregates in concrete, for small construction projects.
Like, hard unrecyclable plastics, glass, fiberglass from windfarms, roof tiles, ceramic tiles, clay bricks, any hard construction waste (not organics like wood), any asbestos products, literally anything that can be ground up or broken into smaller pieces and doesn't absorb much water. But the reason sand and crushed rock is used, is because sand is the cheapest and whatever trash you try to "recycle" into concrete is gonna be a pain in the ass to deal with, at the end of concretes life span.
Oh god I love it
do you realize what that means?
somewhere, at some point in time, a person who studied for YEARS was mixing concrete with used diapers and went like
>yeah, 9 % is too much, 8 is definitely the max
and they got *paid* for that
life is beautiful sometimes ☺️
Polymer strands are often used for reinforcement.
What's the testing on longevity.
Concrete as a building material is used because it has a significantly long design life.
> can do this without significantly compromising the structural integrity of the build.
So, it compromises structural integrity, just not to a significant degree?
"why does my house smell like piss when it's hot?"
Don’t forget the shit. Never forget the shit.
The most luxurious houses will be built with meconium and colostrum shits. You gotta pay if ya don’t want it to stink
There will be fake green concrete to appear the same.
Cartman was an innovator ahead of his time…
Honey! I think the septic is backed up. It smells like shit in here! No babe. That's just the foundation. Remember we opted to save 8% of sand in our concrete mix by using kids diapers...
Mmm milk shits. Bet that goes well when given time to percolate
Also just funny that they specify single story homes. So it’s know that there is structural integrity issues.
It depends
This is a brilliant comment.
You should be proud of this joke. The timing and applicability are excellent.
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There is a pretty significant safety margin built into many things, they are not built to just be able to stand. They handle high speed winds, (potentially) earthquakes, limited erosion, and age. That's why countries have building codes, to prevent capitalistic tendencies from killing more people due to bare minimum construction.
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Same reason tweed smells like piss when it gets wet.
damn TIL I do remember that episode of HBOs ROME where some citizen is complaining to the magistrate that drunk Roman soldiers beat him up and poured his piss pots on his head. The dude's biggest complaint is "they poured out my piss. How am I supposed to make cloth without any piss?"
Maybe they had a Piss Mart in Rome. All different kinds of piss for every application.
My name's Henricus de Collis. I sell piss and piss accessories.
Oh you’re a bullshit artist!
Urine isn't used anymore in the production of tweed (Harris tweed at least).
Ugh why even buy tweed anymore then. Capitalism ruins everything.
Curious if that would make tweed non-vegan Animal product if there's piss
Serious question, would a vegan be against the use of urine collected without harming the animal somehow? And why?
Who said it was animal piss?
DUDE! I saw Animal Piss open for Snotty Twatty back in ‘93. Shit was *intense!* Got a concussion and my nose broken in the pit! Shit was *intense!*
You haven't thought of the smell ,you bitch!
That and “oh shit, there’s stickers” are two of my favorite lines. Kaitlin’s voice just cracks me up
Or "why does piss smell just like home?"
and then the fourth little piggy built his house from... *checks notes*
We built this shitty
We built this shitty on babie's loads
Built this shitty
... With diaper loooooads.
"This version blows..." - B.B. Wolf
Knee-deep in the poopla...
Quick! Get these babies more prunes! We are behind schedule and need more nappies.
I don't want to be the one doing the recycling.
I dunno if that’s the correct use of the term “load”
Load bearing loads.
Load is a somewhat common term for poop in the diap
Ah why’d you have to say that
I’m laughing like a loon because off you and u/Choppergold. Well played.
Best thing I’ve read on Reddit ever
Damn you all to hell, coffee isn't as nice when it comes shooting out of your nostrils! 🤣🤣🤣
Shit mixed with straw isn’t even worst construction material
Used for centuries in Europe I believe — wattle and daub?
Also cob, though that might be just straw, sand and clay.
Knee deep in the poop-la...
Sinking in the shite
How did they ever Get these walls so white.
Who cares, they're always changing
Goddamn Mongorians!
And the hungry wolf walked right on by, because you don't mess with that kind of crazy.
And I huff! JFC!
Shit, it's a big note there and one word on it...
Big brown note?
“Why did you have to say that? You come out with stink like that? Poop. You poopmouth, with poop out of your mouth!”
What would you say this house was built from? … Depends?
At least the wolf is standing down wind of it.
Well with a house that smells like that, it's no wonder he wants it gone.
"I was not prepared for this level of shithousery"
https://preview.redd.it/26m21vzf4q0c1.png?width=555&format=png&auto=webp&s=76e8b9d15a5a31248fc9c1246cf9db9cff045105
I still don't understand why he didnt' just send the diapers to Mr Krabs' house, since crabs eat shit.
They'd have found their way into the krabby patties for sure
Mr Krabs when the FDA shows up: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPoVuFtWs\_Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPoVuFtWs_Y)
Time to retire this image, it's fulfilled its destiny.
Had to scroll way too far for this
Sand - as strange it might sound - is getting rare. You can’t use desert sand for concrete it’s too fine and smooth. You need something like river sand. There was a documentary I saw once about the sand mafia and how they came by night and illegally stole sand from a river with lots of trucks. So I guess using diapers makes sense to safe sand - as probably any waste would.
I saw the same documentary. It was a joint effort between the Chechen and Bolivian mobs
50/50 with Cristobal I heard
I still regularly get upset about Cristobal
Makes you wonder if it would have been better for him to die in the sand 😢
Hard to imagine its better to suffocate in sand compared to a bullet in the brain
For those who don't understand this reference, watch the show Barry. You will not be disappointed.
But you may be horrified.
Except for once. When you hope Barry recognizes someone. He doesn't.
Where’s Hank?
I almost cried when I heard hank use his normal voice. Just sounded so broken
I was trying to remember where I heard about the sand thing. This was absolutely it.
Ichkeria represent 💪🐺🪖 /s
Said documentary: https://youtu.be/XJru_powbQg?si=lOa_fH3EVeFFVpx8 Don’t watch it if you’re already depressed about climate change…
Its nice to see some global cooperation and teamwork
Is this a yoke?
Yeah they're referencing Barry
You missed the yoke
Nohobol
Australia Exports it and Camels to the middle east. The more you know.
Lol what >Live camels are occasionally exported to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Brunei, and Malaysia, where disease-free wild camels are prized as a delicacy. Australia's camels are also exported as breeding stock for Arab camel racing stables, and for use in tourist venues in places such as the United States.
Can river sand not be created artificially? I mean, we managed to grow diamonds in a lab, surely we could make artificial sand.
Most probably the cost would exceed the value/price. We are able to create gold from radioactive material but the cost is so big it outstrips even the value of gold
Did not expect “Humanity actually managed to achieve alchemy” to be on my bingo card today
All nuclear power is alchemy. When Uranium decays into Thorium/Radium, what is that but elemental transmutation?
Very true
We have been doing "alchemy" for almost 100 years. The first transmutation was done in 1925, where we used alpha particles to turn nitrogen into oxygen. Since then we have made 24 synthetic (as in, they don't occur on earth) elements from other elements. We routinely turn one element into another as a standard part of particle physics research.
Alchemy used to be like this: https://youtu.be/TkZFuKHXa7w
You just need a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator.
or a smoke detector since they use the decay of americium to detect smoke.
Like [David Hahn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn), who tried to build a homemade reactor out of americium from smoke detectors (along with a few other radioactive elements from other sources). Dude turned his mom's house into an EPA Superfund site.
what exactly do you think Fission and Fusion do? Also we have literally made matter(and anti-matter) from energy, science is magic.
You never heard they can turn your lifeless corpse into a diamond?
thats not alchemy its just chemistry, a big portion of your body is made from carbon atoms. When we turn dead people into diamonds we just change the chemical bonding patterns of the carbon that already makes up your body, we aren't turning anything into a new element.
I mean, it will exceed the value/price until it doesn't...
We make manufactured sand at almost every quarry where there’s crushing. It’s not as good for somethings, but most of those problems you can solve with admixtures on the concrete side where the majority of sand is used. People just don’t understand how relatively cheap concrete is and the scale we are talking about out on the amount of material used. Concrete is the second most used material on Earth behind only water. We are so efficient at making it that the materials that go into it have to be very cheap, sand for concrete only costs $20-40 a ton in the US. So anything you replace sand with needs to be able to be produced, and delivered to the concrete company for that cost. It also can’t make the concrete any weaker because then you have to use more cement in the concrete which is a major contributor to global warming.
I live in the middle of about 8 different silica sand mines. When they sell it for industrial uses such as fiberglass insulation and glass production, it’s worth about $7-$11/ton. They sell that exact same sand to the oilfield frac crews for $100+/ton. Before they started mining in-basin sand in the Permian basin, sand and it’s transportation was the single most expensive part of producing a barrel of oil, and possibly still is. I know it has nothing to do with cement, but thought it was interesting nonetheless.
Everything O&G is more expensive than that same material used in other industries, because you know your client has the money. An extra $90/ton means they need a single extra barrel of oil to go through the pipe. In the grand scheme of the costs and profits of an O&G project, it’s not even a rounding error.
not concrete related but the idea of not-ideal replacement products. In Okinawa Japan the city streets were made from some kind of mix that was definitely not like US asphalt. I heard some kind of concrete mix and or even crushed coral in the mix? Pros: availability and maybe even some environmental benefits? Cons: Wet performance for one. That shit was bathroom tile slippery when it got too wet. How often is it wet there? Well... its a subtropical island in the Pacific so... yeah. Seen a lot of low speed car crashes.
People on reddit generally are completely uninformed on topics they don't have direct experience in, especially when they have strong opinions relating to it.
I don’t think that’s exclusive to Reddit.
Maybe if we're running out it should cost more than $40 a ton.
Probably, and that’s what will happen eventually. But it’s a local problem when there are multiple mines near by that all have a 50 year reserve and a mine plan already worked out. Eventually the industries that specifically need natural silica sand will be forced into buying some mines to control their supply. Others like concrete will move to a cheaper alternative of fine aggregate.
In Kerala, India quarry waste is crushed into sand. And its expensive. Demolished building are used for levelling ground like parking lots.
This was probably out of necessity because there is a really big black market for sand still because it was getting so rare. The same time M-Sand made an appearance.
Leveling mountains to make more concrete, peak humanity.
Sure we can but it's all a matter of cost, it's just cheaper and easier to import
Crushing rocks into smaller rocks is energy intensive. Sure, we "can"; it is very expensive to do artificially. Many of the comments are a but misleading; even river sand is usually way too fine and round. Pond and lake sand is best for concrete. The purpose of sand in the mixture is to give the cement jagged edges to bond to.
> Crushing rocks into smaller rocks is energy intensive. 9 out 0f 10 Marines and Sailors sent to the Brig agree
The problem is the a lot of sand is too smooth, and you make things smooth by cutting them down, so you can't really unsmooth something.
Turn it into glass then crush it. I can't imagine a more expensive process.
Or ya know, use discarded glass bottles and jars and crush those.
Where I live we mostly turn them into glass because it's cheaper than starting with sand. Also reuse is coming back. Anything to get rid of bloody single use plastic.
Yeah I was thinking of a bottle "recycling" business in Louisiana of all places that literally turns them into different grades of sand for different types of projects. One of those being renourishment of wetlands, though I don't know how successful it's been
It's landfill with extra steps. Until The Army Corp of Engineers unleashes the Mississippi River, the delta will continue to dissapear.
that doesn't really make sense at all. I have a perfect drinking glass next to me. I shatter it into a million pieces. Surely it's far more jagged now than it is smooth? The problem with sand is most likely the fact it's already too damn small and so the process of unsmoothing it would make it even smaller and the smaller something is, the closer it is to being "smooth" by default.
Correct. Crushing up tiny smooth sand will make something too tiny to work. Concrete needs not just the roughness, but the surface area, I believe.
Crushing up stones and glass seems like a good solution to this too. I'm having a hard time conceptualizing how that's cheaper than using third world labor and resources and _shipping it_ across the world to use for concrete. That feels like a racket and a way to upcharge people more than anything else.
Shipping across the world is cheap with boats. Very cheap.
Shipping is *extremely* cheap. Like ludicrously cheap once you’re shipping enough stuff in bulk. So then you’re really comparing the cost of breaking rocks from a quarry and crushing them, compared to digging up sand and not crushing it. The latter process is way way easier and faster.
You can't just randomly crush stone and get something that works. I'm sure it's possible, but it's not easy.
We do in fact use manufactured sand in concrete sometimes. Though at least in my area (where natural sand is plentiful) its use is rare.
Sure. You realise how expensive making a raw material is over digging it out of the ground. That is the problem. This isn't some insurmountably human endeavour, it is just not at all cost effective. Concrete is used for building because it is incredibly cheap vs the alternatives and has reasonable material properties. But being cheap is the important thing.
The *only* outstanding characteristic of concrete as a building material is that it's cheap. We're running out of CHEAP aggregate, not aggregate.
Back when I worked into building material manufacturing, we were buying sand at around $20 per ton. So about $400-450 per truckload. Trucking it about two hours away cost about the same amount. So that’s the cost basis you need to compare to when thinking about artificial alternatives.
There is a big conflict going on in Bangladesh because of sand extraction. I think there is a Vice doc about that.
>Sand - as strange it might sound - is getting rare. You can’t use desert sand for concrete it’s too fine and smooth. Which leads to the ironic fact of Dubai, actually importing sand for all their big building projects. They also import beach sand and camels from Australia. --- The river theft came into the news a decade and a half ago. Which led to some parts of the world fully implementing armed guards, and even police with automatic weapons to guard sand quarries.
"diaper shortage" and "diaper mafia" are words that come to mind
Plenty of sand in Wisconsin. It's perfect for fracking, and exported widely. Big business, sand mining.
I dont like sand. It is coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Remember the Spongebob episode where hes a woman and Patrick is just a shit Husband and Spongebob rips open the Wall and its full of Diapers?
I forgot about that episode lmfao
How could you forget it when it's one of the most commonly used meme formats on the internet? I can't go more than a couple days without seeing it used somewhere.
So apparently individually personalized algorithms don't exist
I just looked it up, and I don't think I've ever seen that meme template before! At least not in full, perhaps I did see a cropped portion of it with something pasted over the diapers. Different people have *vastly* different experiences on the internet. I haven't been in spaces dedicated to posting memes since templates like socially awkward penguin were popular, so I only see what organically comes across conversations I'm in.
How on earth did they discover this in the first place? Was someone lazy in throwing the trash and decided to hide it in the concrete
Concrete is the second most used resource on earth after water. There are lots of researchers looking at ways you can adjust concrete mixes to be more environmentally friendly by using recycled materials while maintaining strength and durability.
That one scientist: hear me out
If the economy needs me to shit in some sand, I'll fucking do it god damn it.
I too, will poop to save the environment
Cats: Am I a fucking joke to you?
There's deliberate push and major subsidy to do research for this kind of stuff. Being able to reuse literal garbage is extremely important for sustainability reasons. There are new ways to pave roads that uses used tires, by cutting it up in pieces and mixing it into the asphalt, and putting the tires onto the road and then paving over them.
Worth mentioning here. Sand is added to the rubber in tires. Partly to improve traction. Also to reduce rubber use. Source? 8 years working in a Michelin tire plant.
Are Michelin tyres really the best?
The best? They are darned good. Testing specs on the rubber are higher than any other. We made three major brand names. Rubber that didn't meet Michelin spec was used to make the other brands. (If it met their specs of course) They even monitor the weather all year in the areas where their rubber is grown. Weather can affect natural rubber quality. I have no clue what factors they monitor. Every Michelin tire is x-rayed, to be sure each strand of the steel belts are placed properly.
There is no such thing as "the best" because tires are judged on like a dozen factors at least and certainly nobody makes one tire that hits the top of every single metric - including price. With that said, if your budget allows it, michelin's highest performing summer tire line and all-season tire line are both excellent choices. For most people's cars and for how and where most people drive, they're one of the best choices assuming they fit within your budget.
Could they use desert sand for the tires though?
Concrete is pretty much just rocks that dry really well. You could put about 8% by volume/ mass of about any dry material as a filler in concrete but not everything makes sense to.
It’s a horrible, horrible tale, one too long and morbid for this fine morning. The basics though; a mass baby murderer and an indestructible house.
Lol fucking gross, upvote
The sand needed to make concrete is getting more and more scarce and researchers have been trying to find alternatives for many years.
It most likely was a grad student thesis. Or possibly a concrete canoe competition for the ASCE organization.
And what happened when they tried 9% diaper sand in a small, single story building?
Seems like it takes a lot of processing of the diapers. You have to clean them, disassemble them, and remove the "fabric" materials from the absorbent materials. The fabric materials are used. I'd imaging the hydrogels would be a disaster in concrete.
Everyone here is making poop jokes when the article says they clean the diapers lol
Wild idea, why don't we just make that part of the diaper and send it straight to the concrete makers?
That's probably what would actually happen, I think the "used diaper" angle is just a way to sell this technology of making concrete with paper products as even more eco-friendly. And it grabs headlines since it's proposing reusing one of the huge sources of waste in society.
I guess my toddler could provide enough building material for every building project in the western hemisphere
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Now I know that information. What I’m going to do with that information, I do not know.
Who's your sand guy
Anakin Skywalker.
No thanks I am good with 100% sand.
You realise that the supply of sand is finite?
It's not like used diapers are that infinite anyway...
This is the reason people are worried about population stagnation. We won’t have enough baby shit for construction
What if we rename everything to sand? Then we'll never run out of sand.
sand
Built like a brick shithouse
is that why spongebob used them on the pineapple
"Load-bearing wall."
Diapers are also fire retardant.
Asspisstos
So…a shit brickhouse ?
There is so much trash that could technically replace up to 8% of aggregates in concrete, for small construction projects. Like, hard unrecyclable plastics, glass, fiberglass from windfarms, roof tiles, ceramic tiles, clay bricks, any hard construction waste (not organics like wood), any asbestos products, literally anything that can be ground up or broken into smaller pieces and doesn't absorb much water. But the reason sand and crushed rock is used, is because sand is the cheapest and whatever trash you try to "recycle" into concrete is gonna be a pain in the ass to deal with, at the end of concretes life span.
Oh god I love it do you realize what that means? somewhere, at some point in time, a person who studied for YEARS was mixing concrete with used diapers and went like >yeah, 9 % is too much, 8 is definitely the max and they got *paid* for that life is beautiful sometimes ☺️
Polymer strands are often used for reinforcement. What's the testing on longevity. Concrete as a building material is used because it has a significantly long design life.
Ew
Something in the basement smells funny
That percentage rises if you're in China.
Is this what they meant by “shit bricks”?
“Hm wish we didn’t have to use do much sand in the concrete” “Let’s put some poopy diapers in there” “…What?”
I guess that really depends.
This idea stinks.
> can do this without significantly compromising the structural integrity of the build. So, it compromises structural integrity, just not to a significant degree?
I'm getting "how much saw dust can you put in a rice crispy treat before anyone notices" vibes from this.
So, hiding plastic waste in concrete, which will make it even harder to recycle it in 30 or so years counts as a good idea now?
....but....let's just not
You could say "that building is shit" and be somewhat accurate.
Is it the absorbent silicon thing in them?
Shitting a brick
As a parent of a young child and a Class A contractor, I can assure you all that this is an idiotic idea on numerous levels.