Palm Sunday

 With Athena Kuhn. Considering she's in Miami, I expected more:

The Cool Down, Researchers develop game-changing method to transform palm trees into futuristic building blocks — here's how it works

A new biocomposite made up of desert palm waste has just been developed out of the United Arab Emirates, according to Construction Week Online.

The UAE produces 500,000 tons of palm waste annually, and researchers at the Technology Innovation Institute are using it to produce a material called Eco-Wall.

According to the researchers, Eco-Wall is a sustainable building material that can be endlessly shaped into everything from tiles and flooring to full-scale facades. It can be added to existing buildings or used in new construction.

Incredibly, it is said to be three times stronger in compression and uses seven times less water than cement. And since all it requires is palm waste to create, it can basically be created locally around the world.

When life gives you lemon trees. . .

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