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I am absolutely ectatic about getting transparent wood windows fitted in my wooden house! That would be so amazing! ... but then I remember how they don't buil
by einpoklum 6y ago
I am absolutely ectatic about getting transparent wood windows fitted in my wooden house! That would be so amazing!
... but then I remember how they don't build wooden houses in Palestine :-(
- pkkim 6y agoWhy don't they? What do they use instead?
- novok 6y agoA lot of the middle east use some sort of stone or mud/dirt. Partly because lumber is not as plentiful and earthquakes are not much of a thing. Plus concrete / stone has better sound privacy characteristics and doesn't catch on fire.
- einpoklum 6y agoActually, earthquakes _are_ a thing in eastern Palestine - it's right next to this major fault line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian-African_Rift_Valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian-African_Rift_Valley we have very-minor earthquakes occasionally, and I think a major earthquake once a century or so.
- pjc50 6y agoThey barely build them here in the UK. The US has an abundance of wood, so you can build wood framed wood clad houses cheaply. Palestine is not only without forests but semi-embargoed; it looks from the news footage that cement block or hollow brick are common.
- einpoklum 6y agoOnly the West Bank and Gaza are embargoed; but I live in Haifa which is under Israeli control. In the far past, stone was common; and indeed, today it's cement and hollow bricks. Both in the 1948-occupied parts (= Israel) and the 1967-occupied parts.
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoThe whole "transparent wood" thing is such a scam. It's PLASTIC. A process removes nearly all of the wood from the material, then replaces it with transparent plastic, and somehow it's still marketed as "wood".
- einpoklum 6y agoThe story does not suggest the wood is removed and replaced, but rather transformed. Can you please elaborate? Specifically, will this material feel like plastic rather than wood? Behave like plastic rather than wood?