China saving the rainforest?

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Propagandalass

New Member
This might be old news, it just caught my current span of interest. I recently heard the Chinese are affecting the deals with tropical wood... without actually specifically trying to. But not in ideological dimension, they are cutting the profits by pushing them off the market!

China has managed the production of "Bamboo Wood", a wood made from refining Bamboo. Previously, bamboo wood wasn't of fit quality because of its fluctuating volume with temperature change, but recent developements have overcome this drawback and bamboo wood is becoming a popular quality wood type, especially bamboo based laminates for flooring.

Considering two important points:

-Bamboo just shoots out of the ground and grows extremely quick. Trees need years to decades to get big, bamboo manages it in weeks.
-Harvesting (chopping a bambo "tree" down) doesn't kill the bamboo, its still alive and shoots back up in an instant

If bamboo-based material is further developed and becomes successful it could solve a great deal of foresting problems.
 
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jwangyue

Junior Member
Given the right condition, bamboo can grow a meter an hour. It has higher tensile strength than steel. If they can unitize it, it is certainly great news.
 
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cmb=1968

Junior Member
jwangyue said:
Given the right condition, bamboo can grow a meter an hour. It has higher tensile strength than steel. If they can unitize it, it is certainly great news.
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Who is making this claim that Bamboo under certain conditions can grow a meter a hour?
 
bladerunner

bladerunner

Banned Idiot
Propagandalass said:
This might be old news, it just caught my current span of interest. I recently heard the Chinese are affecting the deals with tropical wood... without actually specifically trying to. But not in ideological dimension, they are cutting the profits by pushing them off the market!

China has managed the production of "Bamboo Wood", a wood made from refining Bamboo. Previously, bamboo wood wasn't of fit quality because of its fluctuating volume with temperature change, but recent developements have overcome this drawback and bamboo wood is becoming a popular quality wood type, especially bamboo based laminates for flooring.

Considering two important points:

-Bamboo just shoots out of the ground and grows extremely quick. Trees need years to decades to get big, bamboo manages it in weeks.
-Harvesting (chopping a bambo "tree" down) doesn't kill the bamboo, its still alive and shoots back up in an instant

If bamboo-based material is further developed and becomes successful it could solve a great deal of foresting problems.
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I think the biggest problem is that in many parts of the world the very poor still use wood for fuel, so whats its burning qualities like and does it grow in Africa and South America?
 
sumdud

sumdud

Senior Member
VIP Professional
Hmm? AFAIK as long as you let your bamboo grow old (say, 4 years, still faster than most wood) and dry them thoroughly, bamboo will do as good as any wood. Not a meter.... 30 feet a day.

Not sure how bamboo burns and my guess is that wood burns way better than bamboo since wood has a filler while bamboo is pure fiber.

And if you start planting bamboo in the Amazon or the Congo, I am not sure how the locals would react to the existing fauna and flora...... only exceptions are the slashed sections of the Amazon.
 
bladerunner

bladerunner

Banned Idiot
sumdud said:
Hmm? AFAIK as long as you let your bamboo grow old (say, 4 years, still faster than most wood) and dry them thoroughly, bamboo will do as good as any wood. Not a meter.... 30 feet a day.

Not sure how bamboo burns and my guess is that wood burns way better than bamboo since wood has a filler while bamboo is pure fiber.

And if you start planting bamboo in the Amazon or the Congo, I am not sure how the locals would react to the existing fauna and flora...... only exceptions are the slashed sections of the Amazon.
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Besides I couldnt imagine it growing in the colder climates of China where wood is still used as fuel, by the poor.
 
bladerunner

bladerunner

Banned Idiot
What's the processed refined bamboo durability?. You can call me a sceptic if you like but having lived in New Zealand where we have suffered a catastrophic failure in building materials such as processed wood and other things, which has resulted in nearly a billion dollar losses in homes, I'm a little wary. I also believe Canada had its leaky home problem a few year back.
 
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