may be a material of future - "compressed" wood stronger and lighter than steel https://www.fastcompany.com/91334748/superwood-stronger-than...
"has a 50% greater tensile strength than steel and a strength-to-weight ratio that’s 10 times better. "
"has a 50% greater tensile strength than steel and a strength-to-weight ratio that’s 10 times better. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InventWood
> In 2018, [Liangbing] Hu's laboratory reported that partially removing lignin from natural wood and then compressing the remaining cellulose under heat produced a material roughly three times denser than the original timber and an order of magnitude stronger in bending and tension.[2] The material was commercially named Superwood.
> [2]: https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature25476 | https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476
i'm no expert at this stuff, but i used to live in a home that had a bamboo garden maintained by a housemate. that stuff was so strong, i used it to make a box lol
That’s not to say it’s not strong enough necessarily, but building with bamboo requires different construction techniques and people are still working on validating its safety and updating building codes, which takes decades.