Future Skyscrapers Could Be Made Of Mud | Planet Fix | BBC Earth Science

In episode one of the new series, 'Planet Fix', we explore why modern architecture's obsession with concrete needs a drastic wake-up call. Could using more climate-friendly materials, such as mud and wood, help us build a more sustainable future?
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[@adpirtle]

He just kind of breezed over how timber buildings can be made safe with regard to fire. Perhaps we could get a video going into that.

[@GGeloRob]

Can't be worse than the buildings we have now

[@ryuuguu01]

If you search for "clt fire test" on youtube you find videos on this. CLT = Cross Laminated Timber

[@MrDaraghkinch]

He forgot to mention, that huge 13th century mud mosque still stands because of the annual festival where an army of locals replenish its entire exterior with masses of new mud.

[@Kromunos]

Wood and Dirt: "You created concrete to replace me only to face it's consequences. You could not live with your own failure, where did that take you? *Back to me."*

[@MomentsGap]

Maybe I miss something but... can we make mud building with some type of thin concrete casting to protect from water, or some other material that will stabilize it further?

[@Personatge]

You use lime usually

[@utube11235]

Lime is usually used, besides many other techniques that ensure water is not an issue. In India we have hundreds of thousands of such buildings that have endured for centuries in some of the most humid and rainy places on Earth. It’s an art and craft with its own principles.

[@bonemeal_boi]

We've just got to wait until the 1.19 update rolls out for the mud bricks to be added.

[@yamagishisan]

5:18 Is that Gordon Ramsay?

[@peacenow42]

I recommend the movie "Earth" (2019) Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter.......digging up more land is CRAZY.

[@TheJohnsoline]

This is adobe. I've made it 1 second in and I know it's adobe. Edit: 3:37 adobe pueblo, turquoise painted doors. That's New Mexico

[@rick-yo]

Please do a video about hempcrete.

[@dogwalker666]

Well bricks are actually mud and sawdust so they have been built of mud.

[@khurramkhurshed9427]

Interesting information

[@axesofebil]

Reusing concrete is an interesting proposal. How is repourposing it carbon neutral though?

[@deforged]

8:50 how much less of CO2 is produced from all that heat that's required and used to melt down old cement to recycle it? and doesn't remaking it again simply end up with the same production of CO2 anyway?

[@oms7963]

Probably a lot less because they use electric engines to create the hear

[@user-ff2gs9xh6u]

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[@DSAK55]

Growing trees does *not* offset GHG emissions

[@GameplayTubeYT]

How about termites?

[@dogwalker666]

We don't have termites.

[@r3dp1ll]

the wood is treated

[@ml.2770]

Only if the sky gets lowered.

[@learner4470]

So you are saying scrap off the top soil and erect buildings, how is that going to help in the long run

[@mmmbrrr3232]

Weird take bet you are fun to be around

[@learner4470]

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[@christophermoreau1730]

How old are the children of the forest 5 to 1 when will they be grown to take on the challenge. Timber takes TIME are willing to take that from yours.

[@transvestosaurus878]

Neo-neolithic?

[@MasterKenfucius]

Mud buildings can't be very tall because they can't bear huge loads. Skyscrapers and mud are a bad combination. FAIL

[@CanadianBakin42O]

First

[@ramanwaliga9294]

The Future in which we’ll be more vulnerable to poverty, water scarcity, homelessness, passive racism, overpopulation and violence than we conspicuously are nowadays. Even the old generation who put much expectations out of our era, didn’t yield any kind of advantages. Let’s settle this we even can’t afford our property rents, water/electricity bills compare to what we were demanding on owing residences 20 years ago. That terribly ended up in a financial crisis so we stay where we’re rather than playing on people’s interests.

[@ramanwaliga9294]

@@jakelittle1261 Don’t apply your poor experience on others’ life it’s irrelevant. I depict my own status which is worse than my ancestors’ so do the reasonable proportion of people right now. It’s not our fault that your grandparents led a deadly world wars in several years in order to colonize or enslave other nations through gross greed intentions. If you wanna contribute please be relevant in which we can debate some points here.

[@punkdrunkmonk824]

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