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>It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it actually comes from a lab in Maryland. In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. It seemed like yet another headline-grabbing discovery that wouldn’t make it out of the lab. “All these people came to him,” said Alex Lau, CEO of InventWood, “He’s like, OK, this is amazing, but I’m a university professor. I don’t know quite what to do about it.” Rather than give up, Hu spent the next few years refining the technology, reducing the time it took to make the material from more than a week to a few hours. Soon, it was ready to commercialize, and he licensed the technology to InventWood.

Archive: https://archive.today/pvZyF From the post: >>It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it actually comes from a lab in Maryland. In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. It seemed like yet another headline-grabbing discovery that wouldn’t make it out of the lab. “All these people came to him,” said Alex Lau, CEO of InventWood, “He’s like, OK, this is amazing, but I’m a university professor. I don’t know quite what to do about it.” Rather than give up, Hu spent the next few years refining the technology, reducing the time it took to make the material from more than a week to a few hours. Soon, it was ready to commercialize, and he licensed the technology to InventWood.

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That is a good point. It also probably takes far longer to degrade. Though, since it is not made of metal it could probably go through one of those big grinders they have at junkyards and mostly turn into wood pulp.

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True those things grind up engine blocks whole so I can see that. I do think when they said the thing about burning it might be like a normal fire not one like in a wood stove.

If combined with that crusher idea it might make some super long burning ground pellets in an incinerator or a coal like stove that is meant to burn over a thousand degrees since this would be hard so burn far hotter and go straight to a hot coal once ignited.

Might be a second use for this invention to heat huge building with a wood that is as hot as coal is when burning since the density would be right up there.