Sign in or 
Share this
BAMBOO USES IN CONSTRUCTION
AIRSCAPE FARMING WITHIN ALGAE POND GREENHOUSES
By Jim Miller [NOTE: there is more about using bamboo in construction at the page on BAMBOO located on the Straw Bale Builder wikiwebsite: http://strawbalebuilders.wetpaint.com/page/BAMBOO ]
We now change the purpose of the pond cover and ponds to the seawater greenhouse concept and a vertical farm. By combining the uses, we grow fuel and food using the same structure and thus conserve capital and reduce the carbon footprint even more. The inspiration for this paper came from reading the Vertical Farm website. i
Here is the design:
Conclusion:
We have come a long way. NREL's failed experiment in Roswell, New Mexico, with the open race track pond, led to the Earthrise recto-linear sets of open ponds in Calipatria. Our closed pond system growing only algae and taking up potentially valuable “other crop” lands and depending on well water, is now capable of producing its own distilled water (still need a water source elsewhere) and can use the air space for airscape cropping. We use hemp and bamboo, both renewable resources and plant/animal glues. We use soyfoam. Keep in mind that giant bamboo can grow four feet a day ix and is very easy to grow and has few enemies. x We can look forward to having our worker cooperative cum ecovillage with multiple sources of income: food, fuel, distilled water, structural bamboo and multiple bamboo co-products (siding, flooring, drain pipes, scaffolding, ladders, struts, car and boat bodies, aircraft components, etc.) Our logo can be the Panda holding the Blue Earth between its paws, with its chest facing the observer, saying “Help both of us.” Respectfully submitted,
James E. Miller, B.A., B.S., J.D.
May 9, 2008 jimmiller@algable.com
Landline: 541-757-9797 Cell: 541-971-0403 Skype: jimmiller5417
END NOTES
"Why Bamboo" provided by:
Why Bamboo? Bamboo has a role to play. The planet is deteriorating all around us and it seems that people are just getting used to it rather than doing anything about it. The social, political and economic implications are unimaginable as our ozone layer thins, forest disappear and deserts form, disease rages, earthquakes destroy, housing evaporates and food supplies dwindle. Bamboo has a role to play. Perhaps the environmental crises at hand have not touched your life, but the time will come. The earth desperately needs the attention and action of all of us or our children's children will surely not have a world fit to live in.
There is no one solution but amazingly, the simple bamboo plant can make a dramatic positive impact in many areas. It is our goal to inform and raise awareness about "People, The Environment and Bamboo" and give people the tools and information to then respond in their own way in their own world. Every action counts, every person counts...
AND BAMBOO HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY. BAMBOO IS:
THE FACTS
BAMBOO IS:
The fastest growing woody plant on this planet. It grows one third faster than the fastest growing tree. Some species can grow up to 1 meter per day. One can almost "watch it grow". This growth pattern makes it easily accessible in a minimal amount of time. Size ranges from miniatures to towering culms of 60 meters.
A critical element in the balance of oxygen / carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Bamboo i s the fastest growing canopy for the regreening of degraded areas and generates more oxygen than equivalent stand of trees. It lowers light intensity and protects against ultraviolet rays and is an atmospheric and soil purifier.
A viable replacement for wood. Bamboo is one of the strongest building materials. Bamboo's tensile strength is 28,000 per square inch versus 23,000 for steel. In the tropics is it possible to plant and grow your own bamboo home. In a plot 20m x 20m2, in the course of 5 years, two 8m x 8m homes can be constructed from the harvest. Every year after that the yield is one additional house per plot.
An enduring natural resource. Bamboo can be selectively harvested annually. Bamboo provided the first re-greening in Hiroshima after the atomic blast in 1945. Thomas Edison successfully used a carbonized bamboo filament in his first experiment with the light bulb.
Versatile with a short growth cycle. There are over 1000 species of bamboo on the earth. The diversity makes bamboo adaptable to many environments. It can be harvested in 3-5 years versus 10-20 years for most softwoods. Bamboo tolerates extremes of precipitation, from 30-250 inches of annual rainfall.
A critical element of the economy. Bamboo and its related industries already provide income, food and housing to over 2.2 billion people worldwide. There is a 3-5 year return on investment for a new bamboo plantation versus 8-10 years for rattan. Governments such as India, China and Burma with 19,800,000 hectares of bamboo reserves collectively, have begun to focus attention on the economic factors of bamboo production.
An essential structural material in earthquake architecture. In Limon, Costa Rica, only the bamboo houses from the National Bamboo Project stood after their violent earthquake in 1992. Flexible and lightweight bamboo enables structures to ÒdanceÓ in earthquakes.
A renewable resource for agroforestry products. Bamboo is a high-yield renewable natural resource: ply bamboo is now being used for wall paneling, floor tiles; bamboo pulp, for paper making, briquettes for fuel, raw material for housing construction, and rebar for reinforced concrete beams.
A soil conservation tool. Bamboo is exquisite component of landscape design. It's anti-erosion properties create an effective watershed, stitching the soil together along fragile river banks, deforested areas, and in places prone to earthquakes and mud slides. The sum of stem flow rate and canopy intercept of bamboo is 25% which means that bamboo greatly reduces rain run-off, preventing massive soil erosion.
An ancient medicine. Bamboo has for centuries been used in Ayurveda and Chinese acupuncture. The powdered hardened secretion from bamboo is used internally to treat asthma, coughs and can be used a an aphrodisiac. In China, ingredients from the root of the black bamboo help treat kidney disease. Roots and leaves have also been used to treat venereal disease and cancer. Sap is said to reduce fever and ash will cure prickly heat. Current research point to bamboo's potential in a number of medicinal uses.
Integrally involved in culture and the arts. Bamboo is a mystical plant as a symbol of strength, flexibility, tenacity, endurance and compromise. Throughout Asia, bamboo has for centuries been integral to religions ceremonies, art, music and daily life. It is the paper, the brush and the inspiration of poems and paintings. Among the earliest historical records, 2nd century B.C. were written on green bamboo strips strung together in a bundle with silk thread. Instruments made of bamboo create unique resonance.
A food source: Bamboo shoots provide nutrition for million of people worldwide. In Japan, the antioxidant properties of pulverized bamboo bark prevents bacterial growth and its used a natural food preservative. Bamboo ÒlitterÓ make fodder for animals and food for fish. Taiwan alone consumes 80,000 tons of bamboo shoots annually constituting at $50 million industry.
A landscape design element. Bamboo is an exquisite component of landscape design. For the human environment, bamboo provides shade, wind break, acoustical barriers and aesthetic beauty. http://kauai.net/bambooweb/whybamboo.html
By Jim Miller [NOTE: there is more about using bamboo in construction at the page on BAMBOO located on the Straw Bale Builder wikiwebsite: http://strawbalebuilders.wetpaint.com/page/BAMBOO ]
We now change the purpose of the pond cover and ponds to the seawater greenhouse concept and a vertical farm. By combining the uses, we grow fuel and food using the same structure and thus conserve capital and reduce the carbon footprint even more. The inspiration for this paper came from reading the Vertical Farm website. i
Here is the design:
- Bamboo. We use the “engineered wood” concept ii which is already in use in the bamboo industry. iii Small strips of bamboo are machined in a rectangle using the thickness of giant bamboo as much as possible as the depth, then the width should be about 1.27 to 2.00 centimeters and as long as we need for the arch of the pond cover. These strips are formed along the same arch as the pond covers and glued together with a resin made from plants and/or animals. iv
- These bamboo struts are stronger than steel by weight, are low carbon, can be formed along any arch, are about 2.46 cm thick and about 7.62 cm wide. v
- The panels are now one meter in width, or less so if the engineering calculations so indicate. The strut is still the spline between the lateral edges of the panel but now can bear considerable weight. vi
- We still use the concrete or concrete and foam curb or stem wall. As we erect the pond covers, as each panel is nested, shoulder to shoulder, the strut is placed in the lateral cavities of the panels and the panels brought together. We can use a plant/animal based glue or a silicon adhesive (with remains flexible to allow for expansion and contraction) to fix the panels to the struts. A simple “T” bracket receives each distal end of the strut and is lagged to the footing if the stem wall is foam, or if the stem wall is concrete, to the top of the stem wall.
- On the inside of the ponds, we can drill through the struts and install eye bolts in a row along the length of the pond. Instead of ponds 10 feet wide, I would widen the ponds, lengthen the panels and raise the height of the medial length of the pond cover to about eight feet or more above land grade. This added height would better accommodate the hanging plant system. By increasing the thickness of the panels, we would also increase the thickness of the struts, thus increasing the weight bearing structure and also the insulation value of the panels as well as the heat capacity of the anti-freeze. Also, by having layered panels, we will also increase the thickness of the strut. vii
- While on the subject of the anti-freeze, we can color it so that the only light which gets through is the red, far red and blue spectra, which is what plants need. The solar radiation of the UV, IR and other spectra are thus “trapped” by the anti-freeze for heat absorption purposes, warms the anti-freeze which is then transferred to the thermal energy flywheels.
- In order to access the airscape system, we build a simple floating platform, using soyfoam as a float, viii which is pull along with a cable system and an old fashioned sailing vessel spoked wheel. This platform will have small rubber-tired wheels along the side to run against either the inside of the stem wall or near the upper edge of the pond trench.
- The support system would be made out of natural fibers, such as hemp rope which, when it is replaced, the old rope can be ground up and put in the compost system.
- The hemp rope system involves a heavy line inserted through the eye bolts and running parallel to the run of the 500 feet. Smaller hemp ropes trail down from the header (trail ropes) and are tied to several horizontal courses of rope (course ropes).
- The bags are zip-lock type made in the shape of a “dew drop” (cone-like with a hemispherical bottom) and a large grommet installed in the upper flap-edge of the cone. The zipper closes around the stem of the plant, thus mostly sealing the bag. A drip line is inserted into the bag, next to the plant stem. A clip attaches the grommet to the trail rope at suitable intervals, vertically. The overflow comes out of the bag between the stem and the drip line and eventually into the pond to help feed the algae. The plastic bags can be made from soy or other biomass such a lignum, and thus would be ground-up after each use and fed to the compost system.
- If this system promotes too much unwanted mold, then we need to lead the overflow to a drain tube which collects the nutrient-rich waste water and pipes it to the outside crop lands for disposal. We do not want to contaminate the Chlorella with unwanted algae and bacteria. We would have the bags made with suitable connecting ports for the supply and drain tubing.
- Much of the vertical support system remains between harvests such as the hemp and the water supply and drain tubing. Harvest involves un-clipping the bag, dumping the water into the pond, (or into a funnel which eventually conveys the drain water to the outside crop lands) and gathering the “fruit”. In the case of vine tomatoes, some of the stems are left on among four or five tomatoes, as part of the packing. Since most of the harvest is ready to eat, we can package the products in clam-shell containers made from soy, while on the float platform and then put them in “retail cardboard cases”, ready for shipment and display to the retail customer. Many retailers have chosen this “warehouse” type of display, such as Winco, Costco, and many discount big box stores.
- Within the greenhouse, with a pond width of about 3.66 meters, we could easily accommodate four vertical sets of suspended plants which would put the sets about one meter apart so workers could stand between the sets. The course strings would keep the vertical strings more or less equally distant laterally. As the float is pulled along the pond, ladders and short scaffolding (made of engineered bamboo) installed to pass between the vertical “walls”, would allow workers vertical access.
- The floating platform (“pond boat”) would have a deck of engineered bamboo and the float would be of soyfoam, coated with a plant/animal resin.
- We would grow our own giant bamboo and have our own lumber mill and strut jigs so we can make the struts and decks for the pond “boat”. The jigs would be in the form of a hydraulic press so as to create a very uniform, high density structure for the struts and deck. We could also make sheeting (OSB) to be used to close the end walls of the ponds and other uses. Bamboo is so flexible when green, we could probably make an automobile body out of it – the world's first bamboo car – something on the order of the classic Volkswagen. By cross-layering such as is done in making plywood, but on a curved surface to begin with, we can greatly increase the strength of the engineered bamboo. Other shapes come to mind, such as boat hulls and decks, airplane struts with soy-based fabric coverings. We could copy one of the old Bi-planes and sell it as a crop duster and use it for our pastures and field crops. We will install a turbo-prop engine and power it with biodiesel. Of course the cars and planes are painted green and our logo is applied on each side or front and back as the case may be.
- This system would especially fit the climates between 40 degrees north and 40 degrees south. By using the multi-layered GE Lexan panel, we could adapt this system for cooler climates.
- There is a problem. We need to adapt the Seawater Greenhouse idea of using condensate as our fresh water. Yet we need to travel the length of the pond with no condensate walls. So, we need to design a system for the condensate pipes and finned radiators such that they can be spaced along the length of the pond every XX meter so as to harvest the water vapors produced by the plants and from the surface of the pond. Were the apex of the covers to be ten to twelve feet high, we would have plenty of room for the condensators and still have head room for the workers on the boat platform to pass under the condensators. Since heat rises and the highest concentration of vapors will be along the inside of the covers, putting the condensators at this height makes sense.
Conclusion:
We have come a long way. NREL's failed experiment in Roswell, New Mexico, with the open race track pond, led to the Earthrise recto-linear sets of open ponds in Calipatria. Our closed pond system growing only algae and taking up potentially valuable “other crop” lands and depending on well water, is now capable of producing its own distilled water (still need a water source elsewhere) and can use the air space for airscape cropping. We use hemp and bamboo, both renewable resources and plant/animal glues. We use soyfoam. Keep in mind that giant bamboo can grow four feet a day ix and is very easy to grow and has few enemies. x We can look forward to having our worker cooperative cum ecovillage with multiple sources of income: food, fuel, distilled water, structural bamboo and multiple bamboo co-products (siding, flooring, drain pipes, scaffolding, ladders, struts, car and boat bodies, aircraft components, etc.) Our logo can be the Panda holding the Blue Earth between its paws, with its chest facing the observer, saying “Help both of us.” Respectfully submitted,
James E. Miller, B.A., B.S., J.D.
May 9, 2008 jimmiller@algable.com
Landline: 541-757-9797 Cell: 541-971-0403 Skype: jimmiller5417
END NOTES
ii
Use of Bamboo Strand Plywood in Box Beam Construction
Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org
Citation: Paper number 054120, 2005 ASAE Annual Meeting . @2005
Authors: Daniel P. Hindman, Zhiyuan Lin, Joseph Howard
Keywords: bamboo strand plywood, box beams, bamboo, beam analysis equations
As more engineers and architects wish to create structures using ‘environmentally green’ materials, resource providers are challenged to locate novel materials. One possible material source is bamboo strand plywood (BSP), which can be produced in a 3-5 year rotation, compared to a 20 year rotation for softwood lumber products. This paper discusses the use of bamboo strip plywood for use as the web members of plywood box beams. Standard ASTM testing methods were employed to measure the strength and stiffness properties of BSP. Experimental testing compared box beams with BSP webs to box beams with conventional oriented strandboard webs. This limited testing found that the BSP web box beam carried approximately 70% more load than the OSB box beams with both beams containing identical flange material.. Current box beam prediction equations were oversimplified and did not produce reasonable estimates for either web material.
http://asae.frymulti.com/abstract.asp?aid=19513&t=2
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
2950 Niles Road, St. Joseph, MI 49085 | phone
269.429.0300 | fax 269.429.3852 | hq@asabe.org
Use of Bamboo Strand Plywood in Box Beam Construction
Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org
Citation: Paper number 054120, 2005 ASAE Annual Meeting . @2005
Authors: Daniel P. Hindman, Zhiyuan Lin, Joseph Howard
Keywords: bamboo strand plywood, box beams, bamboo, beam analysis equations
As more engineers and architects wish to create structures using ‘environmentally green’ materials, resource providers are challenged to locate novel materials. One possible material source is bamboo strand plywood (BSP), which can be produced in a 3-5 year rotation, compared to a 20 year rotation for softwood lumber products. This paper discusses the use of bamboo strip plywood for use as the web members of plywood box beams. Standard ASTM testing methods were employed to measure the strength and stiffness properties of BSP. Experimental testing compared box beams with BSP webs to box beams with conventional oriented strandboard webs. This limited testing found that the BSP web box beam carried approximately 70% more load than the OSB box beams with both beams containing identical flange material.. Current box beam prediction equations were oversimplified and did not produce reasonable estimates for either web material.
http://asae.frymulti.com/abstract.asp?aid=19513&t=2
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
2950 Niles Road, St. Joseph, MI 49085 | phone
269.429.0300 | fax 269.429.3852 | hq@asabe.org iii
Cali Bamboo.
Cali Bamboo finished plywood is manufactured from 4-6 year old organically grown moso bamboo: always the perfect color, density and strength. It is our hope that by providing the highest quality products constructed from renewable resources, we can make a difference in the future of our planet.
Rectangular strips are cut from the bamboo and then boiled to remove sugars. Only the highest quality strips are selected for manufacturing into plywood. After treatment and drying, a final moisture content of 6-8% is achieved to ensure optimum stability. These bamboo strips then undergo state of the art compression using E1-level adhesives which binds them together to form plywood. Cali Bamboo plywood is left unfinished and natural so that it can be custom stained and finished for maximum project flexibility. http://calibamboo.com/bambooplywood.html?gclid=CKiO97SlmpMCFQw1awodpkyUww
Cali Bamboo.
Cali Bamboo finished plywood is manufactured from 4-6 year old organically grown moso bamboo: always the perfect color, density and strength. It is our hope that by providing the highest quality products constructed from renewable resources, we can make a difference in the future of our planet.
Rectangular strips are cut from the bamboo and then boiled to remove sugars. Only the highest quality strips are selected for manufacturing into plywood. After treatment and drying, a final moisture content of 6-8% is achieved to ensure optimum stability. These bamboo strips then undergo state of the art compression using E1-level adhesives which binds them together to form plywood. Cali Bamboo plywood is left unfinished and natural so that it can be custom stained and finished for maximum project flexibility. http://calibamboo.com/bambooplywood.html?gclid=CKiO97SlmpMCFQw1awodpkyUww
iv
Smith and Fong Plyboo
Bamboo plywood is made from 100 percent rapidly renewable bamboo, using adhesives that are both strong and low-emitting. Bamboo plywood can be cut and sanded using conventional woodworking equipment. It can also be glued or mechanically fastened using the same materials and fasteners commonly used with wood. Bamboo is a low resin, open grained material that takes stains and finishes exceptionally well.
http://www.plyboo.com/plywood.html
Specifications for bamboo plywood. http://www.plyboo.com/AP_BP_productcatalog.pdf
v Smith and Fong Plyboo
Bamboo plywood is made from 100 percent rapidly renewable bamboo, using adhesives that are both strong and low-emitting. Bamboo plywood can be cut and sanded using conventional woodworking equipment. It can also be glued or mechanically fastened using the same materials and fasteners commonly used with wood. Bamboo is a low resin, open grained material that takes stains and finishes exceptionally well.
http://www.plyboo.com/plywood.html
Specifications for bamboo plywood. http://www.plyboo.com/AP_BP_productcatalog.pdf
"Why Bamboo" provided by:
Environmental Bamboo Foundation
P.O. Box 196
Ubud 80571, Bali, Indonesia
Telephone:
Why Bamboo? Bamboo has a role to play. The planet is deteriorating all around us and it seems that people are just getting used to it rather than doing anything about it. The social, political and economic implications are unimaginable as our ozone layer thins, forest disappear and deserts form, disease rages, earthquakes destroy, housing evaporates and food supplies dwindle. Bamboo has a role to play. Perhaps the environmental crises at hand have not touched your life, but the time will come. The earth desperately needs the attention and action of all of us or our children's children will surely not have a world fit to live in.
There is no one solution but amazingly, the simple bamboo plant can make a dramatic positive impact in many areas. It is our goal to inform and raise awareness about "People, The Environment and Bamboo" and give people the tools and information to then respond in their own way in their own world. Every action counts, every person counts...
AND BAMBOO HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY. BAMBOO IS:
- The fastest growing plant on this planet
- A critical element in the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
- A viable replacement for wood
- An enduring natural resource
- Versatile with a short growth cycle
- A critical element of the economy
- An essential structural material in earthquake architecture
- A renewable resource for agroforestry production.
- A natural controllable barrier
- An ancient medicine
- Integrally involved in culture and the arts
BAMBOO IS:
The fastest growing woody plant on this planet. It grows one third faster than the fastest growing tree. Some species can grow up to 1 meter per day. One can almost "watch it grow". This growth pattern makes it easily accessible in a minimal amount of time. Size ranges from miniatures to towering culms of 60 meters.
A critical element in the balance of oxygen / carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Bamboo i s the fastest growing canopy for the regreening of degraded areas and generates more oxygen than equivalent stand of trees. It lowers light intensity and protects against ultraviolet rays and is an atmospheric and soil purifier.
A viable replacement for wood. Bamboo is one of the strongest building materials. Bamboo's tensile strength is 28,000 per square inch versus 23,000 for steel. In the tropics is it possible to plant and grow your own bamboo home. In a plot 20m x 20m2, in the course of 5 years, two 8m x 8m homes can be constructed from the harvest. Every year after that the yield is one additional house per plot.
An enduring natural resource. Bamboo can be selectively harvested annually. Bamboo provided the first re-greening in Hiroshima after the atomic blast in 1945. Thomas Edison successfully used a carbonized bamboo filament in his first experiment with the light bulb.
Versatile with a short growth cycle. There are over 1000 species of bamboo on the earth. The diversity makes bamboo adaptable to many environments. It can be harvested in 3-5 years versus 10-20 years for most softwoods. Bamboo tolerates extremes of precipitation, from 30-250 inches of annual rainfall.
A critical element of the economy. Bamboo and its related industries already provide income, food and housing to over 2.2 billion people worldwide. There is a 3-5 year return on investment for a new bamboo plantation versus 8-10 years for rattan. Governments such as India, China and Burma with 19,800,000 hectares of bamboo reserves collectively, have begun to focus attention on the economic factors of bamboo production.
An essential structural material in earthquake architecture. In Limon, Costa Rica, only the bamboo houses from the National Bamboo Project stood after their violent earthquake in 1992. Flexible and lightweight bamboo enables structures to ÒdanceÓ in earthquakes.
A renewable resource for agroforestry products. Bamboo is a high-yield renewable natural resource: ply bamboo is now being used for wall paneling, floor tiles; bamboo pulp, for paper making, briquettes for fuel, raw material for housing construction, and rebar for reinforced concrete beams.
A soil conservation tool. Bamboo is exquisite component of landscape design. It's anti-erosion properties create an effective watershed, stitching the soil together along fragile river banks, deforested areas, and in places prone to earthquakes and mud slides. The sum of stem flow rate and canopy intercept of bamboo is 25% which means that bamboo greatly reduces rain run-off, preventing massive soil erosion.
An ancient medicine. Bamboo has for centuries been used in Ayurveda and Chinese acupuncture. The powdered hardened secretion from bamboo is used internally to treat asthma, coughs and can be used a an aphrodisiac. In China, ingredients from the root of the black bamboo help treat kidney disease. Roots and leaves have also been used to treat venereal disease and cancer. Sap is said to reduce fever and ash will cure prickly heat. Current research point to bamboo's potential in a number of medicinal uses.
Integrally involved in culture and the arts. Bamboo is a mystical plant as a symbol of strength, flexibility, tenacity, endurance and compromise. Throughout Asia, bamboo has for centuries been integral to religions ceremonies, art, music and daily life. It is the paper, the brush and the inspiration of poems and paintings. Among the earliest historical records, 2nd century B.C. were written on green bamboo strips strung together in a bundle with silk thread. Instruments made of bamboo create unique resonance.
A food source: Bamboo shoots provide nutrition for million of people worldwide. In Japan, the antioxidant properties of pulverized bamboo bark prevents bacterial growth and its used a natural food preservative. Bamboo ÒlitterÓ make fodder for animals and food for fish. Taiwan alone consumes 80,000 tons of bamboo shoots annually constituting at $50 million industry.
A landscape design element. Bamboo is an exquisite component of landscape design. For the human environment, bamboo provides shade, wind break, acoustical barriers and aesthetic beauty. http://kauai.net/bambooweb/whybamboo.html
vi
Bamboo Strand Products; http://www.bamboostrandproducts.com/news.htm
But Plaehn, inventor and co-founder of B3 Technologies, has developed and patented a new method and source of lumber – a product that is both a large cash crop and environmentally friendly.
The La Jolla local apparently came across the idea of using bamboo for the virtually indestructible lumber after watching a PBS special; bamboo and concrete were used to build Third-world homes strong enough to withstand hurricanes. “Bamboo,” comments Plaehn, “has the highest bio-mass yield of any other living land plant.”
http://www.bamboostrandproducts.com/pdf/LaJollan.pdf
Bamboo Strand Products; http://www.bamboostrandproducts.com/news.htm
But Plaehn, inventor and co-founder of B3 Technologies, has developed and patented a new method and source of lumber – a product that is both a large cash crop and environmentally friendly.
The La Jolla local apparently came across the idea of using bamboo for the virtually indestructible lumber after watching a PBS special; bamboo and concrete were used to build Third-world homes strong enough to withstand hurricanes. “Bamboo,” comments Plaehn, “has the highest bio-mass yield of any other living land plant.”
http://www.bamboostrandproducts.com/pdf/LaJollan.pdf
vii
+27 218621384 info@biomass1.eu 
AVERAGE FIBRE LENGTHS OF SELECTED BAMBOOS
Species Length mm Width Microns L/D Ratio Lumen Microns Bambusa Balcoa 2.57 15.41 123.1 3.73 Dendrocalamus Asper 2.43 17.89 136.1 3.73 Dendrocalamus Strictus 3.1 18.17 122.1 4.33 
http://www.biomass1.eu/why.htm
+27 218621384 info@biomass1.eu AVERAGE FIBRE LENGTHS OF SELECTED BAMBOOS
Species Length mm Width Microns L/D Ratio Lumen Microns Bambusa Balcoa 2.57 15.41 123.1 3.73 Dendrocalamus Asper 2.43 17.89 136.1 3.73 Dendrocalamus Strictus 3.1 18.17 122.1 4.33
http://www.biomass1.eu/why.htm
viii
EMEGA Soy-Based Foam Insulation
EMEGA Soy-based Spray Foam Insulation is manufactured from renewable American grown soy beans. Among its best features is that it expands to 100 times its volume to completely fill every space and void creating a barrier and thermal seal. The EMEGA thermal seal keeps your heating and cooling costs low. The barrier keeps pollutants out of your home and greatly reduces noise pollution. As an inert substance EMEGA Soy-Based Spray Foam Insulation retains its structural integrity for the life of your home. It is not effected by moisture, mold, insects or rodents. http://www.emegabuild.com/ ix
One can see Giant Bamboo grow - 30 metres in 120
days. Achieves maximum density in 240 days. http://www.biomass1.eu/why.htm
One can see Giant Bamboo grow - 30 metres in 120
days. Achieves maximum density in 240 days. http://www.biomass1.eu/why.htm
x
BKOMASS 1
Q5: What diseases does bamboo suffer from? A: Many bamboo species are affected by various diseases and pests. Much of the available information is from Asia. Fungi, bacteria and viruses are involved but only a few are considered serious problems. In nurseries in Asia, the major diseases are web blight caused Rhizoctonia solani, leaf rust (Dasturella divina) and foliage infection (Exserohilum spp. and Bipolaris spp.). Almost 700 insect species in China, 180 in India and 80 in Japan have been reported to be associated with attacks on bamboos.
Comprehensive information on pests and diseases has been compiled in two INBAR publications and further reading is recommended: (i) Mohanan, C. 1997. Diseases of Bamboos in Asia, and (ii) Wang, H., Varma, R.V., and Xu, T. 1998. Insect Pests of Bamboos in Asia. Both publications can be ordered from INBAR. INBAR affiliates can download both publications free of charge.
http://www.biomass1.eu/faqs.htm
BKOMASS 1
Q5: What diseases does bamboo suffer from?
A: Many bamboo species are affected by various diseases and pests. Much of the available information is from Asia. Fungi, bacteria and viruses are involved but only a few are considered serious problems. In nurseries in Asia, the major diseases are web blight caused Rhizoctonia solani, leaf rust (Dasturella divina) and foliage infection (Exserohilum spp. and Bipolaris spp.). Almost 700 insect species in China, 180 in India and 80 in Japan have been reported to be associated with attacks on bamboos. Comprehensive information on pests and diseases has been compiled in two INBAR publications and further reading is recommended: (i) Mohanan, C. 1997. Diseases of Bamboos in Asia, and (ii) Wang, H., Varma, R.V., and Xu, T. 1998. Insect Pests of Bamboos in Asia. Both publications can be ordered from INBAR. INBAR affiliates can download both publications free of charge.
http://www.biomass1.eu/faqs.htm
|
jimmiller5418 |
Latest page update: made by jimmiller5418
, Aug 12 2008, 9:53 AM EDT
(about this update
About This Update
Edited by jimmiller5418
23 words added view changes - complete history) |
|
Keyword tags:
None
More Info: links to this page
|
There are no threads for this page.
Be the first to start a new thread.
