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.
Try 20. Hell, try 100.
But wait! There is more!
Revolutionary new battery!
Revolutionary new water from air device!
Revolutionary new…
Battery tech actually has revolutionised in the past couple decades, you just haven’t noticed because it’s been a series of incremental changes.
Oh, and how do rechargeable batteries stack up to those from 3 decades ago? Care to guess?
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.
It already hit the market years ago. I think they call it… asbestos…
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.
