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A building material that lives and stores carbon

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/06/a-building-material-that-lives-and-stores-carbon.html

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So…wood?

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wood is dead. So, it’s like wood, but imagine if that wood was alive!

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  • nicerdicer@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So they basically re-invented trees?

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Where does the CO2 go when it dies?

    Look…man…the whole thing about carbon is the carbon cycle, right?

    Well we are breaking that cycle by digging up long-sequestered carbon (in the form of long-chain hydrocarbons aka “fossil fuels”) and burning them up in alarming quantities.

    At absolute best, this material will be carbon neutral.

    We need more phytoplankton…when that consumes CO2 and dies, most of it sinks to the ocean depths forever, instead of coming up to the atmosphere.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hydrogel and algae.

    I wonder about the upkeep, fungus, infections, if you use this in buildings?

    is alive, grows and actively removes carbon from the air.

    And gives the carbon back after it dies.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What alien faction of what game does that look like?

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Looks like a Scrin building from Command & Conquer 3.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Right, knew i had seen this somewhere. Thought about Protoss but had mixed it up.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is it more or less efficient than a grass roof?

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