Scientists Turned Human Poop Into Concrete; One Mixture Was 42% Stronger After 91 Days of Curing
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Researchers took biochar made from human waste at a treatment plant in Warangal, India, ground it into a fine black powder and mixed it into concrete in place of a tenth of the cement. After 91 days the concrete was 21 percent harder to crush.
What if the answer to concrete's carbon crisis was already flowing through our sewers?
Scientists turned human poop into concrete; one mixture was 42% stronger after 91 days of curing
Experiments & Discoveries News: Concrete has a major environmental cost, while human waste creates another difficult waste-management challenge. Researchers have now brought the two .
How can we make concrete stronger? By adding human poop or, more prosaically, human excrement. Absurd but true, this is the engineering discovery published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports, which proposes a solution to two of the major structural and climate problems of contemporary construction: the accumulation of organic waste and the enormous production of carbon dioxide generated by […] The article "Concrete becomes 42% stronger…
Scientists have discovered a way to increase the strength of concrete using something that humans consider wasteful after excreting it from the body. Biochar made from treated human waste made concrete up to 42% stronger in tests.
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NewsBombResearchers in India have created more durable concrete by replacing part of the cement with biochar from treated human sewage.
The study authors claim that adding this material to the mixture “leads to significant improvements in the properties of the concrete
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