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#48911 06/23/13 01:13 PM
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Ellie H. Fini at North Carolina A & T State University has developed a product that can be used as a binder when laying asphalt paving. Better Roads has an article on it here:PiGrid. The product is made from pig manure. Yep, that wonderful stuff that pig farmers would love to get rid of. Now they may be able to sell it to the road construction industry. The story in the link just mentions it as a binder for asphalt production. A story in Wired Magazine this month (July 2013) says that it can be used by itself. Apparently several states are testing it for use on their roads. One big advantage? It is a lot cheaper than asphalt. It is also much more energy efficient, which is why I put it in Climate Change instead of General Science.

So in the future you may be able to thank all those wonderful pig farmers for your nice smooth ride.

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thats interesting , I wonder how they do it.

do they just spread the [censored] on the highway then use
a steamroller to flatten the [censored] out?

or do they only use a portion of the actual [censored] on the
road?

it would certainly bring new meaning and images to mind
when someone said they had a shitty trip.

if they just use [censored] without processing it , they
could just heard several thousand pigs between two fences
and bring the local food waste to the construction site
and let the pigs feed and [censored] on the road and then move further down between the two fences
( 4 fences if it will be a interstate highway )
in the road they are building.

why cant all [censored] work this way , why only pig [censored]?

just think if they could make it work with human [censored] then
they could just pipe the [censored] to the construction site from
your toilet!

this way people really would give a [censored]!




3/4 inch of dust build up on the moon in 4.527 billion years,LOL and QM is fantasy science.

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