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Some folks in India have a good idea
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I for one would love a house built from âLEGOSâ!
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The neat thing about many of these ideas from India is that they are built around rudimentary technology. A company trying this in the States would have tried building a factory that churns out thousands. This machinery can be used in small towns and villages, close to the waste heaps and create jobs for locals. Bigger plants can be put up as demand picks up as well. A a switch to these blocks from brick would be simple to implement if the cost is comparable. I havenât checked out thermal ratings or fire resistance, but they wonât degrade from moisture.and if they do snap together properly they will be more stable than brick.
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Nice interview with Christian Cooper, the Black birder from NYC:
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Our technology is plug-and-play with polyesterâs existing supply chain. If we can nail the biotech scaleup and we can plug this into polyesterâs existing supply chain â which we have the connections to do so through myself, my family and our investors â we can effectively replace a very large chunk of polyester. If we can replace even 30 per cent of polyester at full commercial scale, that would equate to about 1.25 gigatons of emissions that weâre able to divert by 2050.
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Fun and tall ships in Rouen:
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Great news.
Archive version: https://archive.ph/OnfLm
ETA: Itâs worth noting that the attorneys for the white families trying to take the Native children have a long history of fighting against Native American control of their land, especially with regards to casinos and oil interests. So this case, for them, was part of a long history of trying to undermine tribal sovereignty.
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This headline makes me gag, but good for her.
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Doesnât this have the same problem as styro-foamcrete?
Yes, you can take a lot of waste styrofoam and mix it into foamed concrete, but what happens when that structure is torn down? Itâs kind of pushing it down the road.
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The bricks/tiles could probably be reused, and might also be able to be remolded. This is a solution that isnât letting the perfect get in the way of the good. If the plastic waste is tied up in bricks it isnât killing marine life, getting broken down into micro plastics in the oceans and infiltrating the whole ecosystem. It reduces the use of coal to fire clay bricks. It gives employment to really poor people in places where small technology is more likely to be successful. There is no one perfect answer to the issues of plastic waste and so on.
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A single data point, but ⌠interesting.
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Well thatâs a shame.
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This should weigh especially heavy on L.A. County Sheriffâs Department, it being quite pocked with criminally-minded and racist precincts that act as violent gangs.
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Yeah, they might find themselves without a single employee.
Thatâd be a shame.
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If Judge Cannon tries to pull any funny stuff, Smith has a backup plan. 
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