Human Folly about “Superwood”

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• Fpl 2018 song001 (fpl.fs.usda.gov):

  #PDF of the #Superwood #bulletproof-wood #paper.

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• 96Dz rqtgxi (youtu.be):

  #video #toread on #Superwood #bulletproof-wood at a trade show.

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• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of InventWood #Superwood #materials which are 11× as strong as regular wood, twice as strong as ASTM A36, and only 1.3g/cc. Procedure from the paper by Song et al. (Liangbing Hu) in 02018 is to boil it with 2.5M lye and 0.4M sodium sulfite for 7 hours before densifying it with 5MPa for “about a day”, removing optimally 45% of the lignin to permit better compacting. No additional binder. The #bulletproof-wood paper. However, the company’s website is full of fraudulent images.

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