Do you know what this is, the product in the foreground?
It’s transparent wood, and it can change the way homes are constructed.
Swedes have developed a way to remove all the opaqueness from wood, which can let light in but retain strength in construction.
Otherwise known as…glass?
Ever heard of glass
This is beautiful….I’ve always wanted to make my wood more transparent…
Dang. Wood filler in cheese!
I wouldn’t want to ski through that forest…
Wow, the first Plain Jane post that didn’t bash Ted Cruz.
Could someone please document this special occasion?
So now I can live in a house made of this stuff, and still be able to throw stones? Sweet!
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Sonny Bono does not approve of these invisible trees.
ah that this ancient history, Scotty developed this decades ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-zPIjJv8rA
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Does it come in bullet-proof?
Not a big fan of see thru wood. I like privacy when I’m on the Crapper.
They better hurry up and move the factory to a safer country. The muzzies will burn that place down. You can’t have anything nice you know.
Introducing the new plexiglass: Half the clarity, 100% more splinters.
I’m sold.
And this will help the Swedes with their Quanderthal problem. . . . . . . . .how?
I can’t imagine any practical uses.
Build cars, boats, trains and planes out of it and cut smuggling by 90%!
Big deal. We got transparent politicians.
…is a “low-cost, readily available, and renewable resource
…Just like Plastic.
… injected with polymers…
… AKA… plastics.
Did I mention you could make plastic in any color you like and even give it a false wood grain?