Scientists replaced 40 percent of cement with rice husk cinder, limestone crushing waste, and silica sand, giving concrete a rubber-like quality, six to nine times more crack-resistant than regular concrete. It self-seals, replaces cement with plentiful waste products, and should be cheaper to use.

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https://newatlas.com/materials/rubbery-crack-resistant-cement/

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It's easy, but it's not cheap. Or easy to do cheaply.

So the companies that do it spend way more than the companies that don't, and are less competitive, because the companies that don't do it let you spend the money on your asthma medication instead of them.

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It seems like this could be treated as a health safety issue and government could subsidize these filters. I'd rather pay a dollar more in taxes than 1000s in health costs for lung issues

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This is actually a pretty big conversation going on now. Thermodynamically, you have to release something into the surrounding parts of the system to get something useful. Industry want to release as much as possible. The population's best interests lie with them releasing as little as possible. There should be an economic balance, as the population owns most of the systems (air, water, landfills, etc) they are releasing into.

I don't want to subsidize already insanely profitable companies, I want the companies to have less economic incentive to pollute. This can be done by making them pay a lot to use my air as a dumping ground. That way, it costs less to install and maintain the scrubbers, and everyone does it, so they're all on the same footing.

"But what about China?!"

I don't have control over China's economic and manufacturing policies. I wish I did. I don't have a good tariff plan for this case. I do know that "but Jimmy's doing it too!" is not a valid response to "stop shitting in the urinals." And I do know that we have to stop shitting in urinals before Jimmy will listen to us telling him not to.