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Superwood is Here! This Amazing New Material Could Change The World!

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Superwood is a revolutionary material engineered to reshape the future of construction. It is stronger than steel, lighter than steel and costs less than steel – and now it is so much more than just a theory. A new company, InventWood has been set up and has over $50 million dollars in funding to turn their research into practical products.

Superwood is Densified wood that is created through a couple of simple processes that increase it’s strength while keeping the natural warmth of real wood. In this video, we’ll break down how Superwood is made and how it can be stronger than steel. We’ll also discuss the game changing impact that it could have on the world, as well as some potential problems.

Could Superwood really replace steel and other traditional building materials? Leave me a comment and let me know your thoughts.

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19 Replies to “Superwood is Here! This Amazing New Material Could Change The World!”

  2. I see alot of potential, but I'm curious on how it reacts to moisture, specifically if I drive a fence post made from this stuff 2' into the ground, How resistant to rot is it, what if that fence post is in swampy land? What's expected lifespan of said fencepost?

  5. So to make a 2×4 it would take a piece of wood 10×20 before compression?

  6. Airplane! Recall that during WW2 the British maid military aircraft out of wood, and they were excellent. Superwood could make Super Spitfires!

  7. Curious as to the effect of water on this product because eventually flooding from pipes or weather is going to happen. And termites, are they going to have a special taste for this wood.

  8. Curious to know whether the new density and perhaps some other part of the treatment process deters termites. Since termites primarily go after the cellulose component of normal wood, is superwood more susceptible because what remains is the cellulose?

  11. This is still just wishful thinking. Once it becomes commercially available, then it will be worth checking into.

  12. Are special tools needed to work with this product, cutting, drilling, nailing etc…

  13. As a retired architect, I would openly welcome Superwood. The product needs to be thoroughly tested for strength, fire resistance, etc. Let's see where this product can go. If this product is as good as proposed, that means more can be done with less, and that is a good thing. Thanks for presenting this new product.

  14. At 06:59,
    I think you are helping big corp. Pull the wool over consumers eyes once again.
    Don't feel too bad, many science based video creators fall victim to this type of thing, and they should kniw better.
    I tealize it's important to get clicks and keep your output relevant.
    You see, regular wood, ( natural ) wood, is stronger than steel ALREADY under some types of stress.
    Compressing natural wood will definitely make it denser, but it also reduces it's volume, and that can be a problem.
    A two by four reduced in hight by a factor of five leaves it five eights of an inch high, or just over a quarter inch.
    This DOES NOT MAKE IT STRONGER!!!!!
    This only serves to necessitate MORE of our precious resources for the same strength structure.
    Sure, compressing and then laminating the wood into strategic shapes can certainly increase it's strength, possibly beyond steel under tensile load, but why??
    For decades construction techniques have been going in the opposite direction.
    Using lighter weight materials and expanded products to give volume and seperate tension bearing components further apart, in order to maximize leverage.
    This " innovation " does the opposite.
    Whether this is just another way to utilize sawdust like is done with
    MDF and flake board, or a marketing gimmick in order to charge more for a less and less valuable product, I don't know. But please, do us all a solid, research the gimmicks and fads before repeating them like a puppet..
    Trump voter most likely.

  15. The applications for a material like this would be primarily aerospace. Imagine a spacecraft made with this. If it's lighter weight than steel and cheaper, that means a space ship made with this stuff would drive down the cost of space launches, saving both in material cost and in fuel cost and requirements. A lightweight spaceship would make getting to and from Mars much more feasible.

  16. Molded superwood? Hmm? The old East German Trabant car's panels were resin impregnated cotton fibre waste.

  18. Crap forgot to ask as well what does this process do to the price, in comparison to regular wood planks?

  19. With this density and toughness, how difficult is it to work with?

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