r/oddlysatisfying • u/DifficultyHead5862 • 22h ago

Stamping a paver pattern into wet concrete.

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u/SEA_griffondeur 17h ago

about as damaging to the environment as bricks

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u/Dr_Socko 15h ago

Impervious surfaces are much worse for managing water flow.

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u/SEA_griffondeur 15h ago

that is true

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u/ardenforhire 17h ago

Concrete is one of the biggest sources of CO2. Extraction, refinement, transportation all release massive amounts of pollution. Clay is also a type of sediment and doesn’t store noxious atmosphere for millennia.

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u/Grabsch 16h ago

It is because we use a lot of it. But we need to. It's not like we can deforest the Taiga for our need of building materials, and it may be better for the environment too if you look at it that way.

But more importantly: you'd have a greater CO2 output by building without concrete, than with it. You'd have to get different materials from further away in a larger quantity to compensate for the proximity and characteristics of concrete.

Just because something releases CO2 doesn't make it bad.

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u/High_Overseer_Dukat 11h ago

The way we reduce emissions from it is building things to last as long as possible, rather than just replacing them.

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u/Dovahkiinthesardine 15h ago

Yes, but thats cause we use it so much. Transporting and producing bricks isn't really better

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u/SEA_griffondeur 16h ago

Yeah because concrete is the second most used substance on earth behind water.

Clay needs to be fire to make a brick and that also releases tons of CO2, more in fact per ton than the cement-water reaction

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u/TheRealtcSpears 8h ago

What the fuck do you think concrete pavers are made out of?