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alzymologist
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Yes and no. There are grades, variations of acidity and oxidative state of medium through the year. It's heavy. It warps differently from everything else with temperature variation. Most of all, it is expensive.
I was also considering glass or clay overlapping tiles. Would be cool to cast huge ceramic panel, but it will crack, unless soil matrix holds it together. Shingles under sod might get roots growing through.
Another possible approach would be to allow leaks deliberately, then leave porous medium below the locking level with airflow access - so that any leaked water would be carried away with warmer air rising from habitation levels or even rhtough ventilation system or stove exhaust.
So much to study.
Or not well-designed. I'm sure someone like Mark Oehler could've figured something out. I don't have much sod here in central Finland, unfortunately, to try something, neither did he I suppose. I still think of how to cover the roof in living grass though, this is perfect roofing material IMHO once we figure out how to fix leakage without resorting to plastic sheets that my grass seems to tear like they are not even there.
This should promote matrix, not signal
There you go, now we know the answer for "what was thinking that person who chopped the very last tree on Easter island?"
Oh come on, someone must have cloned it, it's relatively simple to do even after it's broken - plant stem cells are quite hardy. It's totally hobbyist-level technology. That way we could've filled the island with hundreds of these palms over a couple of years, they would've been clones, sure, but then cross-polinating a palm forest would've been a much simpler task, not mentioning that at least all the critters wouldn't have to be homeless.
Nah, they just do not trust me to donate if their material is good, best case scenario. I dont have enough time to read all the good stuff published by people who respect their audience to pay for this... Wait a minute, not even to them but to hardcore unethical publishing house?!