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benld74

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2. Based on what I read in Bloomberg the other day

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Thu May 19, 2016, 02:46 PM

May 2016

and in another online piece about removing mountain tops, building cities atop the removed dirt placed in valleys. I see more stories about failures for this as well

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Based on what I read in Bloomberg the other day benld74 May 2016 #2

This particular method does not look as useful by itself, however its only in its infancy and there Baobab May 2016 #3

no rebar. have fun with that in earthquake prone china. nt Javaman May 2016 #4

The rebar could be inserted into the extruded pieces and then they could be filled with concrete by Baobab May 2016 #5

true, but it certainly doesn't appear they are doing that here. Javaman May 2016 #6