Architecture – Something of Interest https://www.somethingofinterest.com Random stuff I find interesting. Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:25:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Concrete is the 2nd most consumed substance in the world-behind water. https://www.somethingofinterest.com/concrete-the-2nd-most-consumed-substance-in-the-world/ https://www.somethingofinterest.com/concrete-the-2nd-most-consumed-substance-in-the-world/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:12:27 +0000 http://www.somethingofinterest.com/?p=519 concrete blocks
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Sometimes you hear statistics and they just don’t compute. I was recently struck by a couple after listening to a conversation with the author of The World in a Grain on the podcast 99% Invisible. I’m still having a hard time wrapping my brain around these.

The World in a Grain by Vince Beiser

We’re adding the equivalent of eight New York Cities to the world every single year.

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Here’s another way to think about it. The amount of concrete that we use every single year is enough to build a wall 88 feet high, 88 feet wide right around the equator every year.

The World in a Grain, author Vince Beiser

99% Invisible website: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-on-sand

The title on this post came from here:
https://concretehelper.com/concrete-facts/

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https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/07/20/630949390/the-market-for-air

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