The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.
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I’m all for new building materials, but with lots of processing comes lots of polluting. I wonder what the environmental impact of this is vs steel.
That is a good point and I have seen youtube videos on this before and would like to know as well.