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		JonChesterfield 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's st... Maybe not - if you steam wood you can bend it lots. The compression part might then be doable with rollers, loosely like forcing extruded steel.

apothegm 3 months ago [–]

To some degree. But you’re probably not going to get strength out of sharp bends. And does steaming interfere with this treatment?

I’m assuming there’s a reason this story includes a quote at the end that’s specifically about I-beams.

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