Construction's Graphene Revolution Has (Finally) Begun

From super-strength concrete to fortified infrastructure, this is what the ‘wonder material for the 21st century’ is now bringing to construction. For more by Tomorrow’s Build subscribe now - bit.ly/3vOOJ98
Executive Producer and Narrator - Fred Mills
Producer - Adam Savage
Video Editing and Graphics - Thomas Canton
Special thanks to Dr Lisa Scullion and University of Manchester. Additional footage and images courtesy of University of Manchester, Absolute Photography, Gerdau Graphene, Graphene Flagship, HS2 Ltd, ICON Technology, Kansas State University, NASA/Pat Rawlings, Nanotech Energy and Skanska.
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[@stockerman77]

No rebar!!!??? That news alone is HUGE

[@morkovija]

if and when my friend.

[@drummingspain207]

... and not good news for the steel industry!

[@k0mm4nd3r_k3n]

Huge and crazy cool.

[@Carboxylated]

@@drummingspain207 unless they make graphine coated steel for other purposes like space flight and metal casting etc. steel is used plenty in thousands of other applications other than rebar.

[@drummingspain207]

@@Carboxylated sure, and they are good points. In line with the OP, I was thinking particularly of the thousands of jobs which rely on steel rebar. From manufacture, bending, transportation, fixing... that would be a lot of people suddenly out of work or having to rapidly retrain if possible. But that's technology for you.....!!

[@AzureSkyCiel]

“The concrete industry moves slowly” Well, it’s kind of set in stone.

[@foreskinman2463]

It’s a stone cold reality.

[@DustynRougier]

Dad jokes FTW

[@bootstraphan6204]

Rock solid (pun)👍

[@ED2302]

Lmao

[@priyanshugoel3030]

Punniest shit i have heard today.

[@notyrpapa]

Perhaps now we can finally manufacture the giant structurally-sound pencils we've been dreaming about all these years.

[@pjacobsen1000]

Given that it's stronger than steel, you're going to need a diamond pencil sharpener.

[@N0Xa880iUL]

@@pjacobsen1000 Strength must be varying with direction.

[@rodeynsrene1007]

How hard would you want to press to write lol?

[@howtogaintime739]

Doodle Bob!

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

This is the 21st Century por dios. PENCILS??!!

[@loosecannon8340]

It was said graphene could do anything except get out the lab. Glad to see it finally happened.

[@teekanne15]

still just a gym floor done by a university and all the other stuff he mentioned have still to come true. so basically the same he was making fun of in the beginning of the video.

[@SailingAnja]

@@omokaroojiire Shhtt can't tell the truth or facts.. it gets you banned these days.

[@madmanners54]

@@omokaroojiire take your meds scheezo

[@loosecannon8340]

@@omokaroojiire Graphene is carcinogenic, so probably not.

[@hibiskus828]

@@loosecannon8340 it's an anti-vax conspiracy theory...the company that makes the PEG lipids for the pfizer/moderna vaccines also make another type of PEG with graphene oxide grafted onto it (which is not in the vaccine), so of course now they go and tell everyone that every single covid vaccine has graphene oxide in it

[@alexanderv.w.8214]

Your video series on future technologies, green infrastructure, and projects around the world have been so invaluable. I have been learning so much, and they've truly impacted, and opened my perception of the possibilities for the future, and the future of our world. Personally, it has supported such an improvement in my mental health, and growth in my coping with eco-anxiety. I have shown several of your videos to others, and each have been truly impacted by how the content educated and informed them in ways they had not been receiving otherwise. There is so much value to this kind of education and information being communicated to the common person today. For the work it must have taken to create this channel, thank you, it matters, and it makes a difference.

[@unvergebeneid]

Can't help but think that graphene will be the real wonder material once we can produce it in large sheets, not in tiny flakes. I'm actually surprised just adding this powdered graphene already has such a drastic effect on the material properties!

[@ryanbrown982]

It's not that surprising. The strength of composite materials like concrete depend hugely on what kinds of materials the binders (cement in this case) is holding together. Sand and gravel are the traditional additional ingredients that make concrete, but things like glass and basalt fibers have been shown to add quite a bit of strength and crack resilience. You see the same thing with epoxy composites like fiberglass and carbon fiber. You can make very strong epoxy composites by mixing in everything from sawdust to industrial diamonds. This is another application of the same principle.

[@thacrypt223]

@@ryanbrown982 Anything that can make us use less sand in construction is definitely good. Been waiting on good news like this for almost 5 years now. Things are definitely looking good for the future of graphene.

[@noone3734]

Graphene oxide nano particles are the main ingredient of these covid vaccines. Does that excite you guys?

[@donaldstanfield8862]

You mean better than starbucks...lol

[@ye1o881]

@@noone3734 Yeah! Really interesting, actually

[@DezeosP]

Nice video, but I would have liked it more if you went in a bit more details about it's ecological properties. Is raw graphene recycable and does mixing it with other stuff hinder the recycling process of those materials? Why is it so hard to make in mass? What about Energy cost and pollution from producing it? Also, this being very conductive in heat AND electricity sounds more like it limits some of its applications as a standalone material. This honestly sounded more like a sales pitch. Nevertheless, I didn't know about Graphene at all, so thanks for the introduction!

[@toniklemm1172]

I’m curious about the environmental impacts of the graphene manufacturing process and of the material itself as it may eventually get washed out/leach/dissolve/corrode (what’s the right terminology?) from the material it’s in.

[@somefuckstolemynick]

Good lord let it not be the new asbestos or micro plastics. Humanity needs a break

[@chikkikumar8908]

@@somefuckstolemynick humanity needs more innovation and ideas towards sustainable future. we are improving and becoming better

[@lemmysverruca]

There have been several studies. So far, they haven't found any serious impacts but they also say that that more research needs to be done. I wouldn't be too worried.

[@Joshcodes808]

It is a “carbon capture.”

[@EddieBoes]

@@somefuckstolemynick good point. I am curious what inhaling graphene powered would do to the lungs.

[@apsims12]

I like the idea of graphene replacing things like gold in PCB traces and copper in CPUs; leading to potentially even cheaper and faster electronics. Now we just need to discover the next wonder material that is easy to produce to replace silicon since we're nearing the limits of silicon before quantum physics start playing a role and causing electron jumps and skips.

[@katrinam6795]

If graphene does not go the same way radioactivity and asbestus went I am all for it

[@gregorewart5946]

Good to see this century progress, exciting to see this tec in 2030

[@imjody]

Huge thanks to all those involved in making this possible! :)

[@shay7938]

Awesome video. Great insight into an area I knew nothing about

[@AdamPitas]

All great, but if you want to think sustainably, you have to consider what happens during demolition. Like asbestos, graphene dust could be carcinogenic. It may just not be worth the effort if the industry wants to become sustainable. Steel is great, wood is wonderful, but concrete in general is pretty much impossible to recycle. Adding graphene may just make the process worst.

[@lonestarr1490]

@@matthewcapobianco9332 It still might be not the greatest idea to breathe in those nanotubes. Besides that, adding graphene to anything essentially makes it a composite, and those are notoriously hard to recycle (where "hard" means unprofitable). So Adam has a point here.

[@AdamPitas]

@@matthewcapobianco9332 There are already many carbon nano-materials that are carcinogenic. Carbon nanotubes for example. Don't breathe them in. They have the same issue as asbestos, they enter the lungs as sharp little fibers that cause inflammation and scarring. It's the shape and size that matters, not chemical composition. I suspect fiber cement made with graphene would have the same carcinogenic properties as fiber cement made with asbestos. Even if there were a safe way to have graphene in cement, you have to have an economical and safe way of discarding it. It's important to think of the whole life-cycle of a building. Asbestos is also a wonder material by the way, it just also happens that asbestos dust will kill you. So you don't want it to catch on fire and you want to carefully remove it before you demolish the building. If you can't tear down graphene cement without releasing small fibers into the air, then you can't build with it. I'm sure there will be a study about this at some point.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

@@AdamPitas hmmm, I wonder, as it has been suggested before in the space and futurism scene when it comes to the problem of radiation exposure in long space flights, there's an actual change that we'll just be able to cure cancer (be it by learning to detect it when it has only a little cluster of cells, or develop gene therapies that work 90% of the time, or actual vaccines that teach the immune system to kill specif tumour one might have or whatever) before we learn how to shield completely a space vessel/ station/ colony from all harmful radiation and just live with it so much on earth is already carcinogen naturally, and our industrial process multiply these exposures greatly, and probably will continue to do so it may be too optimistic, but it might just be plausible to consider the scenario in which we just learn how to cure cancer as a response to carcinogenics

[@StrangeTerror]

@@matheussanthiago9685 An idea that I'm surprised doesn't get more attention. I think you're the first person in a long while I've seen bring up that possibility.

[@protorhinocerator142]

I noticed the guy at 2:15 wasnt wearing a mask. He just opened up a big tub of graphene dust and shook it around.

[@niklassteinhauser5191]

Oh how much I love your videos

[@TomorrowsBuild]

Thank you so much!!

[@aloveofsurf]

Thanks for the great news and ending with turning up the lovely music from 7:30 on :-)

[@MichaelAussie05]

Awesome update on the use of Graphene. Cheers.

[@belalelnagaa1587]

first Li-Ion battery was invented in the 70s and didn't see commercial use until 1991. I'd say were on track with graphene.

[@tomikexboii5403]

I just hope the hype for graphene won't end up the same way as the hype for asbestos did a century ago.

[@floridaman318]

My thoughts exactly.

[@saltanofswing6456]

Nothings bad until they've sold the product and the next resource they can exploit and sell to you via a product has been invented ,give it 20 years "oh the environment" , "causes cancer". Bet it won't be cheap either.

[@myhandlehasbeenmishandled]

@@saltanofswing6456 I'm new here on this topic. The video suggests that graphene is just a single layer/sheet of carbon (essentially like graphite) atom. Graphite has been used for centuries by artists and it has never been associated with cancer. If you were to breath in too much of it, i guess it would have similar side effect on your lungs long term. Kind of like coal. But graphite is not carcinogenic.

[@danwill515]

@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled yeah that's the clear difference between graphene and asbestos. I hate to say that guy who posted the comment was making a redundant statement, ... but no I don't hate to. Graphene is nothing like asbestos

[@xxportalxx.]

Well the British were actually aware of the dangers of asbestos back when America was still a colony, took at least 200 years for anything to be done about it. This is a bit different.

[@williamshreeve3195]

Helpful information that was well put together. I look forward to more education perspectives.

[@wdukes50]

Thank you for hope

[@alexgehales]

3D print everything, wow that's huge! As Yazz once said, "the only way is up"

[@isaz597]

Baby, for you and me now 😉

[@Samuel_J1]

Will be interesting to see how effective it proves to be!

[@Harry._.Thompson]

Yea it seems too good to be true lol

[@incognitotorpedo42]

It would also be interesting to hear how it compares in terms of performance to the much cheaper glass fibers that it's standing in for.

[@l.nassah6728]

Been waiting for a while now. I'm glad to see this happening

[@occultbass]

Been waiting for this for a decade now! I remember watching videos about graphene on KZbin where they would show you how to make it with scotch tape and a regular pencils graphite! Always seemed so surreal, but now it's here!

[@N0Xa880iUL]

Space elevator for the win!

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

Unfortunately not possible, not even theoretically, unless you are talking about one on the moon.

[@robowenmikels]

Good to hear. I've been telling people to invest in Graphene/graphene research for like 10 years. I've explained how graphene will change just about everything. Microscopic computers aren't possible without graphene (therefore computers that go in your body and fight diseases, aren't possible til graphene has reached it's potential). Silicon has reached it's limit as an electronic substrate. It goes beyond that. Theoretically, Porous graphene substrate can be used in cell regeneration - porus silicon shows signs of bio-degradation and other biocompatibility-related features that may be useful in cell regeneration. Graphene can do everything that silicon, does, but only better and for longer. So everywhere that silicon struggles, graphene will excel. Graphene, added to metal at an atomic level can create a much, stronger material than we are used to, thus far. Batteries and solar panels, that struggle to meet our needs/expectations, will achieve their potential with graphene.

[@edgaraf9411]

Any recommendations for investments? As in specific companies

[@removedbyutube]

Also curious, any companies to be on the lookout for ?

[@diraziz396]

That's a Good one. Thanks

[@amilton1015]

Thank you

[@markplain2555]

Huh... I studied Concrete Technology.... for 4 years (long before Graphene came on the scene). You just sent me off to Google Scholar to read studies on the material. Impressive. . . Right now it's yielding similar properties to carbon and glass fibre reinforced concrete. The major issue is that it is a simple blend, although adding great properties to concrete its pricing makes it more of a novelty (unfortunate). We need to get to a stage of having graphene strands stretched across the concrete - this would be the ultimate 'game changer' (let's continue to watch this space). . Thanks for the video.

[@timgooding2448]

Now I've got find out how it increases concretes strength. Curiosity is sometime a curse.

[@Memento-_-Mori-_-982]

I think that's what makes us humans special

[@morkovija]

Lots of handwaving and 'magic' probably. Oh and creative testing. Lots of that

[@Cyberwar101]

Same reason why carbon is added to iron to make steel. It's got a lot of tensile strength, which means that mixing it into a material without much tensile strength increases its overall durability. When concrete flexes, it tends to develop tears and cracks, those widen into full breaks. When you add graphene into it, then the strength of the graphene helps to stop the formation of those cracks.

[@timgooding2448]

@@Cyberwar101 The two cannot be compared at all. Totally different.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

@@timgooding2448 it's more of an analogy scenario surely the process and proprieties are a whole new beast entirely

[@malibongwesimelane5423]

Finally. Been waiting to see this for years

[@saminatorx20]

Yay you made the video. Cheers.

[@thegreatxp1177]

why is tomorrow build a separate channel?? this is all content that people who follow the b1m would love to see

[@Laura-S196]

Is Tomorrow’s Build limited to B1M Patreon Patrons?

[@user-zh6ec7fk1w]

@@Laura-S196 Nope

[@eaaeeeea]

Because Tomorrow's Build covers a different well-defined topic. We can subscribe to it and enable notifications the same way we can do with B1M.

[@LeonardTavast]

There are different two different production teams supporting Fred with each channel and because of the algorithms it's best for them to keep the content split into two channels.

[@sownheard]

Posting different types of content will get your channel silenst if people only watch a few. If you have different channels you won't have to worry as much with posting different types of content.

[@joshw3090]

Removing reo bar is what we need to do. Once exposed to water through cracks itll eat your concrete away. Concrete repair will be a big industry soon

[@iworkforwendys]

this reminds me of 60s American magazines this new wonder element will change your life.

[@constructiontour219]

amazing work

[@nf9563]

It’s so incredible and almost too good to be true. Hope that scientists don’t discover it to cause cancer in 40 years time

[@chuggles03]

The graphene in your vaxx will tell us soon enough.

[@journeyfan05]

It's literally just pure carbon...

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

@@journeyfan05 It's the structure not the material. It's a nano sized razor blade, that's why it's so toxic. And there is a shit load of it in the vaccines.

[@squeakybunny2776]

@@chuggles03 simple fact check on the internet tells us you are just pushing an agenda "The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines do not contain any graphene oxide. The ingredient list for both vaccines have been published and tested by outside parties. They were not found to contain any graphene oxide in their formulas, including their lipid nanoparticles."

[@6brman10]

@@squeakybunny2776 Are there any outside parties not funded or controlled by B&M Gates, inc?

[@amadine770]

Material science is what the construction industry needs right now and Graphene could not have come at a better time-one of the best news from this channel.Keep bringing us such stories.

[@sw3604]

A better time would have been 40 years ago. Or 4000 🙃

[@pauldannelachica2388]

Wow this is awesome

[@bhatt..7832]

Excellent

[@sipsofhell9018]

you can use it for geothermal plants to transport heat to the surface instead of injecting water down causing seismic activities which is what we are doing now

[@matheussanthiago9685]

am I mad, or this could be a breakthrough into allowing the building of grid scale thermal batteries?

[@sipsofhell9018]

@@matheussanthiago9685 yup absolutely possible. you can then use thermo electric generators to harvest electricity at night

[@ticklemeandillhurtyou5800]

I've been saying for years we should just figure out a way to tap the Earth's upper mantle and boil water for generators

[@KRYMauL]

@@ticklemeandillhurtyou5800 This is something that could solve global warming while keeping most of the oil industry jobs.

[@halfghanistan]

wow that's actually a great idea

[@jefferee2002]

"Let's stop stringing you along." So, you were stringing us along

[@lberhold]

The thermal and electric properties are amazing with graphene. Great news production is improving.

[@gloxmusic74]

I work at Manchester University and the graphene building is one of mine that i have to tend too...they have some amazing gear in there, havent a clue what any of them do though !

[@skeezix8156]

Back in the early 80’s we used to call graphene government cheese

[@smitentertainment]

Who remembers another material with such wonderful properties? There's a Russian city, in Sverdlovsk Oblast, named after it. Well… It got banned for some reason.

[@HorseMaster23]

What is it?

[@peterhoffmann2231]

@@HorseMaster23 asbest i would assume

[@abebuckingham8198]

Asbestos isn't banned in most of the world. It's even still legal in the US. Also, Russia is the world's largest exporter of asbestos. We were still exporting asbestos in Canada just 5 years ago although it's since been banned.

[@giuliobuccini208]

All of the vocals in this sentence was black painted with graphene. Amazing.

[@outerpol]

Solid video!

[@BsktImp]

Well let's just hope that this time around, unlike with the emerging issue with environmental plastic nano- and microparticles, the cyto- and genotoxicity of graphene and GFNs is fully determined for all life webs before these materials are introduced widespread into the environment!

[@Cyberwar101]

Graphene is naturally occurring in small quantities. Graphite has it inside it and we have used graphite pencils for a long time now

[@BsktImp]

@@Cyberwar101 Sorry, but that's an incredibly poorly formed argument. There are countless substances and pathogens that are "naturally occurring" but which in a particular phase, form, formulation or quantity (mass or rate) may be determined to present an unacceptable risk, perhaps as a consequence of emergent properties.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

well, if I'm no mistaken graphene is a fairly simple arrangement, whereas the polymers that form plastics are huge molecule with long repeating patterns that make the breaking process a more complex demanding more time and energy to completely break I'm under the impression that graphene's structural simplicity give it a huge advantage over plastic when it comes to natural decay I could be very wrong, and if someone has a more profound understanding on the subject, I'd be delighted to be enlightened

[@vlt96]

They argue about industry regulation slowing them down, but regulations in the constructions industry is there for a reason: if tomorrow everything was built with graphene, and in 10 years we realize it's just like asbestos, or that it turns into a paste on earthquakes, or that it makes the concrete flammable, or poorly insulated, or even something else we couldn't even think of, then we have 10 years of new buildings that need to be carefully demolished or even entire neighbourhoods made dangerous by the side effects.

[@mohammadwasilliterate8037]

*No Re-bar is a MASSIVE STEP, however as mentioned in this video, the amount of Graphene is WoW video's around is annoying, I remember when audio CD's came out and every tech geek said holes could be drilled in them and they still play, the reality was a few scratches ruined a CD.*

[@bleughbloop8569]

tbf you can polish a ruined cd back up and the data is still there

[@PFbigfan447]

Did some paper work on graphene for my university on "new materials used in construction and design". Handed over my paper and man...I missed this video by just a few weeks. Would have been so cool to add this additional information about where it is used in construction. Great video nonetheless!

[@dannyhughes4889]

Very impressive.

[@calvingoodall2065]

Do you guys remember what a miracle material asbestos was? I'm really hoping this one is safe!

[@nickdutton6218]

In a few years we'll find that invincible graphene strings that are atoms thick and really long are killing us.

[@andyfma123]

@@nickdutton6218 lmfao imagine walking around and catching on long invisible threads of graphine

[@nickdutton6218]

@@andyfma123 we're either going to get clotheslined, cut in half by invisible cheese wire... Or our guts are going to get shredded up when we yank one out through our butts.

[@virtualcircle285]

Hah great example.

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

@@nickdutton6218 We already know they are highly toxic. They are nano sized razor blades. A million times worse than asbestos ever was. Guess what a Spanish university just published they found this toxic graphene oxided added to all four of the major covid vaccines. Let that sink in...

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Makes pancakes stronger too !

[@Professor-Scientist]

great idea, will make our poo stronger too which is much needed in this world

[@turboprint3d]

If you turn your pizza into carbon it's definately harder .

[@eadweard.]

@@Professor-Scientist poo?

[@marktilley7222]

My pancakes are already like concrete …

[@ryy1704]

@@eadweard. shit

[@JohnJohansen2]

3:50 That looks fun. 🙂

[@firefighter31322]

Finally. Been waiting for this to blow

[@torinnbalasar6774]

Just wanted to point out that the "lead" in pencils aren't just graphite, it's mixed with about as much clay too. I doubt it's possible to produce graphene from it despite being the standard example.

[@xxportalxx.]

There's polymer binders in it as well these days, pass enough current through a pencil lead and it'll give off some nasty smelling fumes as proof...

[@AndyPhu]

Multiple people on KZbin have done exactly that

[@gj1234567899999]

How well does the graphene concrete without rebar protect against tension and shear compared to normal concrete with rebar?

[@thomasfholland]

I think there’s still a lot of testing needed to find the new tolerances when rebar is replaced with graphene. It’s coming through.

[@StrangeTerror]

@@thomasfholland No, these tests would have been required before they started building with it. Especially the highway parts that are being built with it.

[@asandax6]

Your biggest problem is cost. I like graphene but currently it's economically impractical to build with it especially since we don't have large factories to produce it like we have for steel.

[@paxundpeace9970]

@@StrangeTerror (no highway it is about the HS 2 project that is going to be a highspeed traintrack.

[@joeferreira657]

Rebar will always be needed,little bit of BS involved.

[@mariorodriguez219]

I remember reading about this years ago n forgot about it, can’t wait to see it’s fruition

[@maggietoll1311]

Graphene is not good

[@cjeam9199]

7:20 *a solid foundation to build on.* Absolute groan.

[@willembosma3339]

What are the health aspects for our environment when small particles of graphene are released in the air? Carcinogenic or damaging to lung tissue?

[@toastybatch565]

Can’t imagine it’s any different from the cancer everyone at ground zero developed after 9/11

[@toastybatch565]

If it’s not supposed to be inhaled, it’s not supposed to be inhaled

[@anhondacivic6541]

Graphine is just carbon which is practically harmless

[@metallifan9first]

Graphene oxide is in our vaccines, so its fairly safe. Just dont look at the vaers numbers and you'll be fine.

[@dzfz2100]

I am a scientist and I worked as part of the European Graphene Flagship Program while I was at Cambridge. I can tell you first hand: it is all hype, and the top professors were laughing all the way to the bank. The material is practically impossible to process in a scalable way, and as soon as you try to suspend exfoliated graphene in a solution or composite matrix, it stacks back to form graphite particles that lose the “magic” properties of graphene. It is a complete technological white elephant. You’d be better off reinforcing concrete with fibreglass or carbon fibre.

[@PassportGods]

Cool!!

[@sheepleslayer586]

Nation wide, is on your side.

[@slightlyfavored4528]

You DIDN'T see the graphite on the ground because it's NOT THERE! It must've been graphene

[@leonkernan]

I understood that reference

[@TheLiamster]

The “pothole” joke was really funny but it’s also true. I hate potholes and they infuriate me every time I drive over one. Hopefully I’d be able to drive on a graphene road in the future.

[@johnburns4017]

That was not a joke. We are not used to them, but under Boris Trump they are now common.

[@tedlessor3887]

@@johnburns4017 what does the two guys you mentioned have to do with potholes?

[@papaechozulu3737]

In the US the pothole shown would be considered a slight bump. I don't consider it a real pothole unless it takes something off the bottom of your car.

[@tedlessor3887]

@@papaechozulu3737 we have a lot of those potholes in New Jersey 🤣🤣

[@johnburns4017]

@@tedlessor3887 I mentioned one.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

That pun at the end though 🤣🤣🤣

[@tamlynburleigh9267]

Really interesting.

[@raedwulf61]

And in thirty years: "If you believe you have been exposed to graphene, you may be entitled to compensation. Call the law firm of...."

[@telectronix1368]

@@sandhills2344 ....help prevent infection and transmission (and mutation) and severity of symptoms of viruses, yes.

[@squeakybunny2776]

@@sandhills2344 "The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines do not contain any graphene oxide. The ingredient list for both vaccines have been published and tested by outside parties. They were not found to contain any graphene oxide in their formulas, including their lipid nanoparticles." One Google search, dozens of articles with fact checks...

[@AculeousGaming]

@@telectronix1368 the polio va***ne gave more kids polio than the virus itself 😂😂😂

[@telectronix1368]

@@AculeousGaming Yeah....the rate of polio infections skyrocketed once the vaccine was rolled out. Oh, wait.....

[@AculeousGaming]

@@telectronix1368 oh wait…facts don’t lie.

[@burths7984]

As an Australian i swear in British when I hit a pudhole

[@ganjafi59]

I mean more than 10% if your flag is just the British flag. Let’s not talk about the bitch on your money.

[@consciousbeing1188]

@@ganjafi59 - That bitch is on very little of our currency anymore... Just a few coins really. It was all redesigned when we invented polymer bank notes that the world is slowly adopting.

[@tylervanorman492]

Coool!!

[@nicholashughes8214]

Fascinating thank you! It's nice to see science in a positive light again . It's a kind of hey that's cool the world has the chance to become a better place because of this This used to be really common when i was a kid and i would watch science programs sadly it's been pretty rare recently so this makes a nice change

[@SuperRichmiller]

Trying to be Carbon Free? Yeah right

[@Alex-ry6cd]

Graphene has huge energy storage potential. Once integrated with cars safely, it will be a game changer.

[@quantumfrost9467]

Hoping it finds its ways to batteries so we don't need as much lithium

[@nou4898]

haha graphene reinforced gyroscope go brr

[@mrnull682]

Afraid it’ll put steel industry out of business. But it’ll be yrs. cost to much to mine

[@samkat3303]

Yes the game changer will bee 5G to manipulate the energy🙏❣🌞

[@coffeedudeguy]

I wonder how it affects phone signals and EMF, since it might make a building into a Faraday cage?

[@bounceday]

Most buildings have windows

[@the11382]

@@bounceday radio waves go through windows or are blocked depending on wave length. Anything bigger than the windows would be blocked. I guess anything bigger than a few meters depending on the kind of building would be blocked. Broadcast band radio would be out of the question. Not that much of a problem.

[@tollevkvendbo]

The percentage of graphene in the concrete is very small. Very little effect.

[@YeahNoTellTheTruth]

@@bounceday no way?

[@NiekKuijpers]

@@bounceday for real?

[@ANTSEMUT1]

Why is the voice and the presentation style giving me a sense of deja vu?

[@lukelund8383]

Great to see Manchester on the Map again - one of the best cities in England :) !

[@champanzee6486]

Not like it’s an unknown city. lol

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

5:38 How is zinc harmful to the environment?

[@carterjessup1627]

According to Wikipedia its the mining process that is harmful to the environment.

[@abebuckingham8198]

It can seep into groundwater and be inhaled if aerosolized. Breathing it can cause metal fume fever and ingesting too much zinc can cause damage to your nervous system, anemia, and pancreatic damage. High levels of zinc in soil will kill most plants. If the plants can handle the zinc they can pass it up the food chain in higher concentrations to animals. Zinc also acidifies water which can kill a lot of water life and accumulates in fish. Essentially all high concentrations of zinc in the world come from human activity.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

@@abebuckingham8198 Too much zinc certainly can be toxic. It just sounded a bit as if the claim was that zinc was toxic at all levels, like, say, lead. That would put it in a whole different category.

[@abebuckingham8198]

​@@ronaldgarrison8478 Zinc is an essential mineral so it will never be like lead but similar to sodium or potassium where too much can cause harm like that one lady who overdosed on soy sauce.

[@clementinesuwargo8737]

"Concretene" needs a better name imho. Regarding it's use as an aggregate and a rebar, I think it's better to treat it as an addition rather than primary aggregate, since this material seems to be hella expensive. If only it's way cheaper..

[@marlbankian]

Exciting

[@adamdemirs3466]

I like the pic of Chichean Itza El Castillo, I was just there a month ago.

[@thebrowns5337]

2:19...hold your horses boyo. There are real life actual products using graphene really well. Haglofs mimic platinum (sythetic down fill for jackets etc) is a thing. And a blooming good one at that. Put on a jacket with the plafinum mimic fill and you literally feel your body heat warming the jacket and therefore the rest of you within the jacket almost instantly. It really is amazing. Honestly. So impressed and you can tell the difference easily. Also Vittoria bike tyres have been using it for years. Not had that much experience with them personally but they were an early adopter. Give people credit where it's due. And do some research before making sweeping statements.

[@joshglassman4160]

They will always present technologies as beneficial and revolutionary. When it enters the body we will have a society of Manchurian candidates.

[@Jadzeyah]

Agreed, and there’s always a military application. ie: nano-technology.

[@Northwindbreeze]

I hear this since my childhood, I'll believe it when I see it being widespread used.

[@myungsukim]

This is the second version of piezo-electricity propulsion by Mr. Bloomberg. I am becoming a real fan. So creative uncle in faith.

[@travelledfar]

As with the standard nuclear fusion joke, "it's all just 10 years away".

[@codyoxcutter]

Waiting for a wooden-graphene skyscraper; the real game changer.

[@2ebarman]

First it sounded bit lol, but once I started thinking about it, the idea started to make more and more practical sense. Graphine reinforced plywood might have some interesting properties too, for use in smaller projects than skyscrapers.

[@johnfallas3627]

There needs to be more exposure of this sort. Builders merchants should be encouraged to stock these products and the products need to be shown to the general building work force. Get them to understand how and where to use graphene products is key.

[@JGS123WRPTP]

Cost effective, strong road material would be a dream come true!!

[@tjpprojects7192]

I kind of hate the "can't get out of the lab", and "it'll be available in 30 years, 30 years ago" jokes. For much of human civilization, people didn't hear about inventions until AFTER they became successful. They never experienced the sometimes decades worth of research and development that can go into products. They just see it one day, and assume everything must be super easy. Then they get pissy and start whining when something "takes forever". Like FFS the photovoltaic effect was discovered in 1839, and we didn't have REASONABLE solar panels until the last 10-20 years. That's over 160 years for just solar panels! But then people are like "oh herp de derp, graphene will never get out of the lab despite it only being made 17 years ago, durrrr. I so smart". It's the same thing with fusion. The media says "fusion could be 30/20/50 years away" despite having NO experience with nuclear fusion AT ALL, and then people decide to blame the SCIENTISTS and ENGINEERS for what the MEDIA said! Also despite the fact that they're basically trying to contain a god in a bottle (at least if you go by many ancient civilization belief structures).

[@abebuckingham8198]

Personally, cold fusion hurt me and I never really recovered after that.

[@tjpprojects7192]

@@abebuckingham8198 Did it give you the... cold, shoulder? I aim to please.

[@scoliosis420]

Just like all the Graphene that is in those covid clot shots?

[@paulg666]

The patent or ingredients do not show graphene. and No independent test has ever shown graphene in the V.

[@scoliosis420]

@@paulg666 actually both Spain and Germany have done test and both shown that THERE IS graphine oxide in both moderna and Pfizer death shots. Dont be a fool. Or maybe I need to talk to you in a language you can understand.. baaaaaagggggghhhhhhh! Baaaggggghhhhhhhhh! Perhaps you understand sheep better than english.

[@oliverjudson1834]

@@scoliosis420 no they have noy

[@ne1711]

1:02, wow, the Padma bridge

[@hameemwasif3931]

1:02 is that "padma bridge"... Iam from Bangladesh and this is a landmark for our nation

[@MrFranklitalien]

the widespread use of such materials will be catastrophic once enough people start paying attention to its extreme toxicity

[@devondetroit2529]

I’m thinking about what it does when inhaled?! Awful I would have thought. Did you read that study where graphene was found in the Pfizer vaccine by the scientists in Spain?

[@wasweesich]

Pretty sure it's in most of the rona shots...

[@abebuckingham8198]

​@@devondetroit2529 The Spanish study was never published or peer reviewed. Graphene doesn't occur naturally and Pfizer has never bought any. It's an easily discredited hoax.

[@abebuckingham8198]

@@wasweesich It's in exactly none of them.

[@devondetroit2529]

Abe Buckingham not published?

[@somethinghappened3328]

It’s also in COVID vaccines

[@paulg666]

It's not. The patent or ingredients do not show graphene. and No independent test has ever shown graphene in the Vac

[@somethinghappened3328]

@@paulg666 The "vaccine" manufacturers whom are not in vaccine businesses don't have to include graphene oxide or any other materials in their ingredient list. Not to mention Japan found black heavy metals in their moderna vaccines. How can you trust non vaccine criminal companies?

[@paulg666]

@@somethinghappened3328 Sorry you are believing anti vax lies. If graphene was in it would have to be included. The japan story you read is a modification of the actual story. In Japan no graphene was found. 39 vials, from Spanish manufacturer Rovi, were found to contain small particles of stainless steel (as found in heart valves and joint replacements) due to a manufacturing fault. The whole batch was sent batch. There was no graphene in the vials. If it was secretly included why have no tests found it? They have been independently tested all around the world.

[@somethinghappened3328]

@@paulg666 I'm not an anti vaxxer myself but why are covid jabs killing so many more people than any other vaccine combined? Why are people being forced/coerced into getting it? Don't you think you should question it and listen to the hundreds of silenced doctors? Why not go into a hospital and see if there are any covid patients.

[@paulg666]

@@somethinghappened3328 The vac are NOT killing so many people. The numbers are recorded in every country all around the world. The death rate is extremely tiny. Many sites show fake numbers of death that are extremely higher than the published ones from Vaers, or EMA (in europe) TGA (Australia) or other countries. There are lots of patients in hospitals. Do you think all the doctors and hospitals all around the world are pretending people get sick from covid? Remember other countries that don't follow the USA report the same things and have tested the vaccines ingredients/contents.

[@benrusholme]

Graphene in everything!

[@WoolfJ35]

About damn time

[@garyz777]

I understand that graphene is the strongest substance we've found/created, and I understand the theory of how a sheet of graphene works. But I thought it had to actually be a sheet to produce it's properties. I don't understand how adding a tiny amount of very tiny bits of graphene to something (e.g., cement) helps to strengthen it. How are these tiny unbonded pieces helping to strengthen the substance, exactly? I don't get it.

[@johnwhite950]

If I were to guess it has similar property to making steel from Iron- especially in the point that it increases durability/non-shatter properties. By adding carbon atoms to the lattice structures of the concrete, you are further locking together preexisting bonds

[@garyz777]

@@johnwhite950 could be..

[@chippysteve4524]

Let's be honest - this is use of graphene as an additive to existing materials and most definitely NOT graphene as a construction material ....yet.

[@GraemeSPa]

Time will come when graphene shells will be used to protect the terminator robots used to mop up the unvaccinated survivors after The Great Reset.

[@deshantdixit1275]

Might be the biggest revolution in construction industry

[@memeley_troll]

very interesting technology