Originally Posted By: Kira
Play with "petrifying" wood all you want. Don't you think we can do plastic wood already?
What do you do for giggles and to keep your mind active ?
Post it so we can rubbish it online if you like.
Originally Posted By: Langanobob
Interesting about your experiments. Assuming they are hobby experiments and aren't proprietary, do you have them recorded on a blog or website somewhere? Thanks.
Nothing proprietary, nothing online.
5 or 6 years ago, I was our site rep for finding alternate uses for power station ash. I'm interested in the work of Professor Davidovits, and for 20+ years have seen the problems that we have with Portland Cement, with structures crumbling and spalling, while Roman Concrete (very different mixture) is still by and large pretty good.
So thought I'd mess around with half gallon samples of fly ash, and duplicate roman concrete with lime, and geopolymer using sodium silicate harvests from head gasket sealer (ended up making it myself from gel kitty litter)...at least be able to talk the subject with potential offtakers and understand the jargon.
The silicated popsicle sticks didn't pan out really well, but given the clear wood trick, i might be able to make the wood more porous...
Here's a patent for pyrament...it can be used to repair runways, and have planes land in less than an hour IIRC.
http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/4842649.html
edit... google "alkali activated flyash", and "geopolymers" (separately).
