Yeah yeah, call me when they actually start making stuff with it. I've been hearing about this (or something extremely similar) for at least 2 years and nothing seems to have made it to market yet.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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Try 20. Hell, try 100.
But wait! There is more!
Revolutionary new battery!
Revolutionary new water from air device!
Revolutionary new...
Oh, and how do rechargeable batteries stack up to those from 3 decades ago? Care to guess?
Uh huh
And was there a single huge revolution? That was my point: clickbait
It is because of people like you that marketing has to use clickbaity titles, because you refuse to believe that technically difficult tasks take decades to achieve. Here you are, whining about clickbait, when they have pictures of a production plant they spent millions to build. The absolute scammers!
Battery tech actually has revolutionised in the past couple decades, you just haven't noticed because it's been a series of incremental changes.
Did I say that it hasn't?
Progress has been made, of course, and yes, in small incremental steps
I'm saying that the damn near daily "THERE IS A REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY!!!" posts are 99.9% bullshit, its all clickbait to get more money
REVOLUTIONARY ! Product now .5% more efficient than before
One hurdle I'm guessing this has is that normal wood is already pretty strong and (counterintuitively) fire-resistant. You'd have to add a lot of strength at a price point that's reasonable to make it worth bothering.
The article makes it clear that this superwood is not meant to compete with wood used it traditional stick built construction. It's meant to compete with structural steel once it has been able to get certified for those uses and building codes are adapted.
It already hit the market years ago. I think they call it... asbestos...
This is the "scaling to industrial scale" step. The material itself has already been proven. Here's Nilered making it in his lab.
Make me a kickass bicycle with this stuff and I'll buy one lol
Pycreate?
In this article's case no, it's talking about one of those "wood but compressed down into a higher density" type materials.
I'm not sure pykrete would be truly fire resistant anyway, I'd imagine the ice component would stop it burning, but given that it would melt, the heat from a nearby fire would still pose a problem for it I'd assume.