10/ What, if anything, makes straw a good insulation? "it's R100, because it's so thick!" ok, so that's a statement about how THICK it is. You can layer in expanded foam, fiberglass or other insulation that thick if you want.
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11/ "It's NATURAL !!!" Fiberglass is made out of sand. It's just as natural as hay. "It's LOCAL !!!" sand is local too. But, even if fiberglass is shipped from 1,000 miles away ... who cares? Is there something inherently wrong with shipping things 1,000 miles?
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12/ "using straw is good because it's recycling something" as if straw that isn't used for construction is thrown into volcanoes or shot into space. Straw (stubble from wheat fields after the seeds have been harvested to create flour) is used for animal bedding, landscaping
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13/ and ... wait for it... insulation! Yes, straw is one common input to the creation of blown-in cellulose insulation. So WoG's stance is "everyone is too dumb to use straw for insulation [ except for the entire conventional building industry which uses straw as insulation ]"
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14/ Kind of crazy when you think about it, that the industry prefers to take straw, grind it up, apply FIREPROOFING and ANTI-RODENT treatments to it, deliver it to job sites in a convenient form and install it using hoses rather than <checks notes> shipping it on flat bed trucks
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15/ ...hand fit it into position, "sew" the bales to each other use giant needles made out of rebar, use chainsaws to trim the bales to length, and then hope that no rats or insects get in to the material that rats and insects love as a building material, and hope it never burns
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16/ exactly I stacked 6 straw bales in my barn 4 weeks ago. Two weeks ago I noticed that the strings on two of them had been eaten through. Kicked the bale, rats ran out. TWO WEEKS it took rats to colonize it.https://twitter.com/Adam_Asmus/status/1413867084669464585 …
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17/ this ecological argument is tempting, but bad and wrong. I explain in depth in my homesteading books https://www.amazon.com/Escape-City-1-Travis-Corcoran/dp/B093BC3K1T … https://twitter.com/sandrewdunn/status/1413868398153502720 …
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18/ I love the aesthetics of rammed earth, but it only makes sense in ultra-dry climates. ...to the degree that it makes sense at all. The problem w various "alternative" building techniques is that they are ULTRA high labor.https://twitter.com/MogTheUrbanite/status/1413868786814382082 …
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Long tradition in Cascadia of using "sustainable" techniques unsuited to the climate and wondering why the building is uninhabitable within 20 years: adobe, bales, cob construction, rammed earth, geodesic domes, wool yurts from Mongolia, etc ...
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