[hristov]

If you are seriously considering using building materials for carbon storage the best would be bamboo. It grows incredibly fast so that it soaks up carbon fast. However we would need more R&D to make the manufacture of bamboo building materials more environmentally friendly. Currently this Involves just soaking he bamboo in a lot of glue.

[abyssin]

Machining bamboo is also harder on the tools because of its high silicate content.

[dsfyu404ed]

It's still wood though. That's basically butter compared to most materials that get featured in the same sentence as the word "machine" being used as a verb.

[duckymcduckface]

There's a lot more of it though, you'd need to compare bamboo to other woods to have a fair comparison.

[dsfyu404ed]

I disagree.

There are two groups of people who will care about the difference in hardness and silicate content. The first is people doing fine precision woodworking. Those people stick to traditional hardwoods so it's a non issue. The second group is the people who are putting saw blades on angle grinders and stacking dado blades on circular saws or other activities that make work more expedient but tend to result in lots of pearl clutching when discussed in polite company. These people depend in part on the softness of the pine they usually work with in order for their preferred techniques to work and will grumble about having to change their techniques for bamboo or any other harder material.

Everyone else who is not working at the limit of their materials and their tools will just shrug their shoulders and say the only difference they notice is that you gotta push the saw a little harder.

You can cut steel with a run of the mill carbide tipped plywood blade on a circular saw. The HSS family of tool steels used in woodworking applications have no problem cutting aluminum. Woodworking tools are completely capable of cutting anything in the wood and composite spectrum Seriously, bamboo is not going to be any more of an issue than modern wood composites. You might suffer a slight reduction in work speed and blade life but that's par for the course when working in harder material and is basically a non-issue.

The dust it generates and the propensity of the plastics to melt instead of cut is the main concern with compose building materials. Working with them is basically no different than wood.

[Dirlewanger]

Pretty sure part of the reason the West hasn't embraced it is because it doesn't handle cold weather well.

[ginko]

Can't we just bury the bamboo?

[perilunar]

Burying it is a waste. Using it as a construction material also displaces concrete and steel, leading to further remissions reductions.

[hristov]

The idea is to make the bamboo useful so farming it would be profitable.

[rndgermandude]

Use carbon taxes to pay bamboo framers to grow and the bury the bamboo. Or whatever plant has the bast characteristics for this job.

Grow it, shred it, compact it, bury it.

[BurningFrog]

Or throw it on a big pile somewhere? Shouldn't be too hard to stop/delay the decay somehow.

Bamboo Mountain could be a tourist attraction. "The Mountain that Saved the Climate!"

[southerntofu]

You're probably thinking about industrial processes, but AFAIK the traditional method of peeling the bamboo and using its "skin" as a rope to tie the parts together does not require ANY glue. See on your favorite platform videos about DIY bamboo furniture.

[andybak]

Isn't this about giving bamboo a reasonable lifespan before it rots rather than how to hold it together?

[southerntofu]

No idea. I've never worked bamboo wood before. Maybe somebody here has more experience?

[benj111]

Atomic Shrimp did a video on working bamboo flooring.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3d6RpicOc

I recommend the channel (and website) also, particularly the old stuff.

[someonenice]

Just look at these multi storied structures made of bamboo

https://greenvillagebali.com/