Woody 1:10 how generous of you. And make sure it plastic bottles as that will save the oceans too.
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Not an issue.
How so ???
The video in this link may interest you:
https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-population/
But economic growth is the real issue, as it is linked to growth in carbon emissions, rather than population.
Population tends to level off when a society reaches a certain level of development, through education and urbanisation. And a family of three in teh US has a far greater carbon footprint than a family of 8 in say Chad.
We need clean economic growth, and in another thread I put a link of the book Doughnut Economics, but I'm sure its not the only solution out there.
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But the Report said that we must eliminate cement completely (not just reduce it) so how would foundations be built?
Pointless, us continuing.
I'll start helping by throwing a few bricks and bottles into the next lot of foundations, and using 1:10 in the walls. And changing my phone number more frequently.
if you add in that you want all money up front you would be offering the same standard as a checkatrade builder
I just cant see any alternative technology that could take over from cement any time soon.
all building work Ive been involved with always specs any steelwork used underground to be encased in concrete -I think with min 50mm cover.
driven piles are tubes filled with concrete.
I dont know about those helical piles -but any brickwork would have to have a concrete ring beam cast anyway.
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Pointless attempting to put up buildings without cement.
I've just skimmed the report.
It doesn't say how the concrete will be replaced, but it's not trying to. For that you probably want to read:
The report is a summary at a high level. Complaining that it doesn't have the low level is like complaining that building regulations don't describe how they should be implemented. It's missing the point.
The report was presented to the House of Lords, but it was written by a group of UK universities and published by Cambridge. Last I checked they weren't our overlords (that's Oxford PPE grads).
Link to the report: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bi...-digital-280120-v2.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y
Well there you go tony another example of why we cannot afford to allow teenagers and greenies to run the country. The bit about woodburners amuses me and demostrates the ignorance of people like Michael Gove. When my wood burner stove is going you can't tell from looking at the chimney even if it is day time because it was so designed to be virtually smokeless if operated at the right temperature. Similarly, a few years ago I had a solid fuel cental heating system and again it was smokeless if the right fuel was used. So how is Govey's idea going to be policed - with hoards of inspectors going round the streets and trying to guess who might have a wood burner? I think not.
Helical piles are screwed into the ground ;no concrete used.
And, if there is no brickwork, there is no need for concrete ring beam.
The Report suggests two new ways of making cement-replacement. One is using kaolinite clay from Wales – though whether this would be workable on a big scale is not explored. The other way is to recycle concrete waste from demolition and use the cement paste – if a separation process is established; but what would the energy expenditure be in that, and would the available demolition material be in sufficient quantities?
The section then suddenly ends by suggesting alternative building methods including: ‘rammed earth, straw bale, hemp-lime, engineered bamboo and timber’. So that’s the future of our building industry – back to the middle ages.
So what material do we use for spanning between the pile tops - a material which will be either in or close to the ground?
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