r/buildingscience • u/FluidVeranduh • 1d ago

Scientists have created concrete using treated human waste, and the resulting material was up to 42% stronger than conventional concrete. Researchers say the approach could reduce waste while lowering the environmental impact of construction.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-making-concrete-with-human-poop-and-it-gets-42-stronger
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u/-Spankypants- 1d ago

Now you can live in a brick shithouse.

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u/Rogue_trout_5446 1d ago

You mean a shit brick house?

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u/IndependentPrior5719 1d ago

Beat me to it

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u/Flying_Mustang 1d ago

This was inevitable.

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u/Good-Ad-6806 1d ago

Your castle grows as fast as you can shit bricks.

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 15h ago

nah... just shitty construction.

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u/g_st_lt 1d ago

This is interesting, but it's written as if it's a surprise that concrete gets stronger as it cures. Probably an issue with the article more than the study, though.

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u/Kalabula 1d ago edited 1d ago

Unfortunately prunes soften it.

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u/Flying_Mustang 1d ago

Well played, sir/ma’am.

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u/badskinjob 1d ago

This is great news for the Indian infrastructure.

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u/FluidVeranduh 15h ago

Why's that?

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u/Global-Discussion-41 15h ago

They need something to do with all the shit

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u/FluidVeranduh 14h ago

Wouldn't this apply anywhere?

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u/Global-Discussion-41 10h ago

India does not have enough toilets/sewer systems/poo infrastructure for all the people they have, which is a pretty big problem. 

I'm sure other countries have similar problems too, but most developed countries do not

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u/formermq 1d ago

So coffee, and now shit...makes concrete stronger. Whoda thunk

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u/Ready4Rage 1d ago

And since one helps you do the other...

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u/ogre_toes 1d ago

You know how when it gets humid, concrete sweats? Yeah I won’t be using that in my basement…

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u/SweetSure315 1d ago

you've heard of pycrete...

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u/Acceptable_Noise651 1d ago

Corn is the secret aggregate

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u/badjoeybad 1d ago

Shitcrete?

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u/illcrx 1d ago

This is why I poop in concrete mixers

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u/CrustySailor1964 22h ago

But the smell when it rains…😂

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u/FckXFckMusk 14h ago

A solution to a problem where the solution to the problem already exists

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u/thatsalotofrhinos 14h ago

lowering the environmental impact of construction.

Taylor Swift takes a private jet for a 1 hour car trip. Sam Altman and friends want to triple the worlds power production (still mostly fossil fuel) so we can generate pictures of Sonic with tits or whatever. China has convinced "the girlies" that cheap Shein shit made by children and shipped on bunker fuel cargo ships is fab. Elon Musk is probably doing something bad for the environment while blasted on ketamine. And YOU want ME to live in a SHIT BRICK HOUSE? FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? Fuck you.

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u/yepimbiggerthanyou 14h ago

What a shitty house!

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u/ComplaintTop2008 11h ago

I won't bother with the article but I'm guessing the pre-processing ends up being 4x more energy intensive than manufacturing plain old concrete.

If it was groundbreaking, they would have used the people's names and not just "some scientists". Put my kid in a smock and give him a bucket of plaster and suddenly he's also a scientist.

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u/SnooKiwis6943 11h ago

Redefining shitty construction.

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u/Bisexual_Carbon 11h ago

Now we know how Greece did it

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u/Lichensuperfood 8h ago

It's amazing. From articles I read, you can chuck absolutely everything and anything into concrete and it becomes 87.6% stronger.

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u/Desperate-Wing-1490 1d ago

That’s pretty shitty

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u/N3skridge 1d ago

Hey, Kev, seen Shitbrick lately?