Towers of Steel? Look Again (2013)

nytimes ^ | Published: September 23, 2013 | By HENRY FOUNTAIN

[cripplecreek]

The flash steel hardening process developed by a self taught metallurgist in Detroit a few years ago (Flash Bainite) Should be showing up in construction soon if it hasn’t already.

Lighter stronger steel hardened faster and cheaper

http://bainitesteel.com/

[grey_whiskers]

Gee, what could possibly go wrong? I hope Al-Qaeda doesn't hear about this...

[grey_whiskers]

The flash steel hardening process developed by a self taught metallurgist in Detroit a few years ago (Flash Bainite) Should be showing up in construction soon if it hasn’t already.

Rearden metals? ;-)

[editor-surveyor]

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Let’s take all the idiots that are concerned about a “carbon footprint” and just ‘assist’ their suicide.

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[editor-surveyor]

It is unusual for a steel frame to survive a fire.

They usually are annealed by the heat of the fire, and curl up like a fresh boiled noodle.

That was the reason for the thick asbestos gunite that used to be applied to steel frames.

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[D Rider]

Wood is an excellent building material. It can even be rendered fire and bug resistant. But it looses strength dramatically when it gets wet.

[DakotaGator]

Of course, the watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) will whine that making bricks generates CO2...and we’re back to the cycle of stupidity.

[Mastador1]

So he wants to address rising C02 by destroying millions of trees that convert the C02 to oxygen while at the same time creating huge fire traps? Sounds perfectly logical to me.

[TEXOKIE]

LOL! Exactly!

[Chickensoup]

What if no one cares about their carbon footprint.

It is a phony construct to trap the middle class.