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Friday, June 18, 2010
Good morning,
There are healthier and greener alternatives to almost
everything, and sometimes you never know where those
alternatives might come from...like urine.
It seems like pee, or more specifically urea, is becoming
quite the sustainable ingredient. Beyond being tapped as
a good source of hydrogen, it's powering batteries and is
now being used to make sustainable bricks.
Please scroll down for more.
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Architect Ginger Krieg Dosier has designed a way of
"growing" bricks by combining sand, bacteria, calcium
chloride and urea, all easy-to-come-by materials.
Traditional brick-making is very energy-intensive, pro-
ducing more pollution than global air travel each year.
It's also consumes a lot of resources: 400 trees are
burned to make 25,000 bricks.
These Better Bricks are created through a chain of
chemical reactions known as microbial-induced calcite
precipitation. Once all the ingredients are combined,
the bacteria serves as a glue that binds the sand
together, creating a brick that is as tough as a fired-
clay brick or even marble and requires no baking to
achieve that strength.
If Better Bricks replaced all traditionally-fired
bricks, 800 million tons of CO2 emissions would be
eliminated each year.