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the problems i allude to involve the steel no longer being steel within a very short time after hitting the water. As with the wiki reference, stuff you're expe
by h2odragon 3y ago
the problems i allude to involve the steel no longer being steel within a very short time after hitting the water. As with the wiki reference, stuff you're expecting to pin together with steel will likely not stay together.
It's not pessimism to say "this could be done better; we've seen the methods being used fail repeatedly before"
- bigfudge 3y agoPresumably they don’t have to be around for too long though as they will be replaced by coral once their job is done? Your comment did seem needlessly pessimistic to me, and was absent any specialist knowledge of the engineering involved in this project that might have justified it.
- beeboobaa 3y agoHow could it be done better?
- westurner 3y agoCould they be made from under spec for other applications steel? There's not yet an awesome-coral restoration markdown README.md; or any mentions of both "MARRS" and "Reef Cubes". Do coral prefer steel to other materials like concrete, sargassumcrete, hempcrete, sugarcrete, formed CO2, or IDK cellulose; and can you just add iron to the mix or what do coral prefer? Can RUVs and robots deploy coral scaffolding safely at scale underwater? What other shapes would solve?
- westurner 3y ago"Researchers create green steel from toxic red mud in 10 minutes" (2024) https://newatlas.com/materials/toxic-baulxite-residue-aluminum-plasma-reduction-hydrogen-green-steel https://newatlas.com/materials/toxic-baulxite-residue-alumin... : > Researchers have turned the red mud waste from aluminum production into green steel Perhaps green steel for steel coral reef scaffolding
- hinkley 3y agoThe steel isn’t structure, the coral is. The steel is scaffolding.
- pvaldes 3y agoIt does not matter. Steel will rush and disappear in a few decades, but its main purpose in the meanwhile is blocking trawls and pirate fishing