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Bricks Made With Wool

Posted October 05, 2010 10:26 AM

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:

Spanish and Scottish researchers have added wool fibers to the clay material used to make bricks and combined these with an alginate, a natural polymer extracted from seaweed. The result is bricks that are stronger and more environmentally-friendly, according to the study published recently in the journal Construction and Building Materials.

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Re: Bricks Made With Wool

10/06/2010 5:18 AM

Bricks made with sawdust/ timber waste are lighter, strong, and have higher fire ratings than concrete bricks. they are easier to build with, hold nails for fastening, they trap carbon ( for those fools who think the sky will fall in and the carbon traders who make fortunes out of the suckers), and they look extremely good too!

Have a look at http://www.timbercrete.com.au/ for a real suprise!

I've got 4 bales of wool and 50 Crossbred sheep still to shear, so I could give this a try, but I reckon the lousy $2 Aus. that I'll get per kilogram is still probably the best option. Pity farmers don't get a greater proportion of what consumers spend on goods!

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