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You can make an engineered lumber that's far stronger than conventional wood - LVL, LSL, PSL - just by cutting apart wood and gluing the parts back together so the defects are smaller and more uniformly distributed.

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Alexis Rivas

@alexisxrivas

Nov 28

The materials we build our world with—steel, ceramics, wood, glass, plastics—use only 1-5% of their potential strength. The rest is lost to cracks, dislocations, and imperfections. Imagine a future where we unlock the other 95% and rewrite engineering.

5:59 AM · Nov 29, 2024

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Solomon Ives

@Solomonives

Nov 29

I wonder if we could grow wood cells in a lab, already in sheets or beam sections, with fewer imperfections. An application of bioengineering I had never thought of.

Or accomplish something similar with several generations of tree genetic improvement.

It's like that myth that humans only use 10% of their brains... Except real this time??

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Oscar Meyer had the same idea with meat, but "wood baloney" is probably not as marketable as it should be.

This line of thinking is silly though. “An engine is only 30% efficient…imagine if we get that up to even 60%!” jajaja

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yea well it's compensation for the fact that "wood" is already just compromised tree. Whole timber has 2-3X the compressive strength of engineered lumber

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@Tractor91057105

Nov 30

actually air and fiber give strengh, its a curve, stiff wood dont bend

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