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> First: what's the carbon footprint of concrete? What is footprint of wood framing? Carbon footprint of wood framing is terrible, because its mostly made of e

• throw0101a 5y ago
  > mostly made of engineered wood with a lot of oil in it. [citation needed] Certainly LVL and LSL products are more processed, as is OSB, but those have the advantage of using 'off cuts' so they can use up some of raw materials that might otherwise be thrown out. Even with all that processing I find it hard to believe that it would be worse than concrete, given the amount of (fossil fuel?) energy needed for cement kilns and other things. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concrete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concre...
• AtlasBarfed 5y ago
  ... is the oil burned?