Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: China Tariff Deal?

On 5/17/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:

On Fri May 16 19:52:44 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

On 5/16/2025 2:23 PM, cyclintom wrote:

There is nothing the US needs from any of you anymore. Hell, we don't even need tropical hardwoods anymore since we have a method of makind common softwoods stronger than steel.

Well _that's_ interesting! So musical instrument makers can stop
worrying about the supply of ebony and rosewood, of blackwood and
mahogany? There's no more need to worry about bans on importing them, etc?
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Do tell us more! With sources, please.

 I do find it interesting that you have presented yourself as a teacher and cannot look a single thing up. Is that because upon retirement you became instantly stupid, or have you inflicted that upon your students from your very first day?
 https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/inventwood-is-about-to-mass-produce-wood-thats-stronger-than-steel/

If you were capable of intelligent and civilized discussion, you could have given that link in your previous post. And you could have given it in that latest post without tossing insults, given the fact that all I did was ask for information.
But since you lack that intelligence, you didn't notice the difference between your _present tense_ assertions ("we don't even need tropical hardwoods any more") and the futuristic speculation of the Techcrunch article.
More briefly: It's a laboratory process. They're hoping to scale it up, but it does not exist as a commercial process now, or (probably) any time soon. They gave no actual numbers on density, tensile strength, impact strength or anything else. And like thousands of other futuristic ideas, maybe it will work someday, maybe it won't.
I predict there is no way it will ever come to "we don't even need tropical hardwoods any more."
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- Frank Krygowski