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Sources: Elhacham et al. (2020), Hackney et al. (2021), UNEP (2022)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Interesting, but they neglect to mention why desert sand is unusable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In case you don't know, desert sand is very smooth, which means that it doesn't bind at all in e.g. concrete. For cement, concrete etc., you need sharp sand, which has more 'sharp' bits for things to bind to.

[–] Willy 3 points 4 months ago

Easy. Just put the desert sand in a magic bullet to make more edges.

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