X-Message-Number: 14216 From: Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:05:12 EDT Subject: Back to 21st century, concrete The 20th century has been the concrete century (particularly in Japan). It has too been the century of the tropical rain forest destruction in the hunt for hard woods. Near 2020 all that forest will have been destroyed and another product will have to take the place of hard wood. I think it will be a form of ceramic made of presure molded concrete with some polymers. Such products have been experimented, they behave as wood and have few environment impact. The sooner they will be used the better. Modular houses could be produced in factories with these products driving down the housing cost by a factor up to 7. Yvan Bozzonetti. Some spare time on your computer? Get paid for its work: http://www.processtree.com/?sponsor=44937 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14216