Yellowstone is using 'thirsty' concrete that absorbs 50 gallons of water a minute
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- A brilliant new creation is helping one of the best preserved places in the world. Yellowstone National Park has begun to use porous, or thirsty, concrete in walkways throughout their park. The new concrete, called Flexi-Pave, is made with stones and recycled tires, and Michelin has been helping them install it all over the park.
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absorb ? you mean pass right through ?
what sounds better...
Aleron Adams RIP English am I right?
was thinking the same thing. 30 gallons/hour would make it swell up.. well, like a "30 gallons of water + pavement volume"-sponge...
It doesn't absorb 100% of the water you 2nd world filthy peasant.
PowderBoy Calm down bud
if that shit catches fire it's gonna be a wall of flames
John Smith STANDING IN THE WALL OF FLAMES
AND THE WORLD’S GONNA BE ABLAZE
LOL Need I Need the Full Lyrics
Then the fire nation attacked
Literally, one day, that park gonna blow up
So playground material?
Brandon probably a bit too rough
Brandon the playground i go to has floors that are hard as hell
Brandon right it's exactly what it is
Haha that's the perfect description for it and nobody actually knows the real name but knew exactly what you were talking about
Unfamiliar s i turf right?
Lmao everyone in the comments is suddenly a scientist and act like they know better
At least I get to learn lmao
I am a scientists. These things r ruining ecosystems
for once, the commenters are right tho, this shit doesnt work
Cat photo.
Ikr (-_-;)
I thought the Concrete was gonna ask me for Nudes
XD
good one
LOL
Head Case it's called thirsty concrete not desperate concrete...
hot darm, and now Head Case wil be needing more than 3000 gallons of water to recover from that burn XD
what if a dog peed on the thirsty concrete would it stain or smell
sorry agus 3 yes
S O dummy you can't just say yes
the real question
Why a dog? Does that mean I can't pee on the road anymore :(
People lika you are the real geniuses of this century , nothing but respect for you man
pretty sure that concrete isn't going to do anything against the supervolcano
张新驰 Eh it probably won't blow for a while, though it is over due by a few hundred years.
张新驰 there's nothing we can do to prevent it from erupting
Satyam Patel its preventable
unachievable by modern tech
Why can't we just put a giant plug on it?🙃
PLOT TWIST people are going to waste even more water by pouring it on the concrete and watch it absorb
Plot twist : The US scientists invent a concrete which can absorb water while people in Africa suffer from drought and famine
But water is unlimited.. nvm
More water for the geysers then
isn't there a lot of toxins in the material that is in turn caught by the water? what are the long term research and results on the wear and tear from the water flowing through the material? are there any articles?
Zoey No
Zoey possibly, but normal cement is a lot worse...
AuthenticDoom you think water flowing on concrete will collect more toxins than water flowing in concrete?
MischievousMoo yes, when it rains the water is cleaner if it were to filter through the ground, normal concrete it would just run along and collect even more toxins. This applies to cities especially where the water can't escape anywhere but the drains, which lead directly to rivers
MischievousMoo when you get proved wrong through simple logic that you couldn't figure out yourself
" Absorb "
*Pours water onto cement*
*Water just goes through cement and is not absorbed*
Seems legit
Jeffrey C totally legit
Adsorb is an actual term
Lol
If below the "Thirsty Conrete" is a Ground/dirt, probably will absorb the liquid
Jeffrey C some of it was absorbed
So now all the rain water can be filtered through tar and tires before it gets returned into the Eco system!
that's what we call progress 🖒
W0LFM4N so basically what you're saying is there's already a ton of other shity things going on in the world so why care about another one?
Insidious589 My thoughts exactly. ... doesn't take a scientist to know that what they did is more harm than good... whoever was behind the idea doesn't give a shit about the environment...
Kagu Sohma actually it does take a scientist and I'm sure they thought about that.
Kagu Sohma you're an idiot
Why did they want to take a picture with the marshmallow man
Who wouldn't
lol the tires they use in the gravel is sponsored by them.
Wouldn't the water from regular roads just flow onto the grass and go back into the ground anyway?
BoBo Field yea but it has runoff which is bad
Yeah, but these are modern times...
It doesn't matter if the end result is exactly the same as something we have already. As long as they throw in a few buzzwords (Simple, eco, environmentally friendly, natural, recyclable) they'll be able to make a bit of money form it.
How do you think Microsoft keeps making money...
They remove features from an OS, dumbing it down, and call it 'Simple'. People pay more for less.
No, most of the water would collect in pools on the tarmac and then evaporate because of the heat buildup on the tarmac from direct sunlight.
This problem would become exponentially worse with age as the road sinks where people and vehicles are present the most.
+Paul Johnson my work has thirsty concrete on part of the parking lot. It worked amazing barely after it's installation. after a couple years of not being preventing it from clogging up, it's just way worse off now. Long as it gets maintained and keeps it's ability to let water through, it should be fine
Only if the roads are build with hollows.
Does the freeway/motorway get covered with pools of water every time it rains, or does it drain off?
when i wear ripped jeans my legs look like michelin
lmaooooooooo
If it absorbs water, why does is fall through?
it doesnt absorb 100% of water
it probably doesnt absorb any.. (if we neglect the tiny amount of the binder). Water just passes through, no absorbance here - please move along, nothing to see here :)
Pruz Gaming If it was regular concrete the water would just be on top and out to the grass or surroundings. This road "absorbs" the water and it flows down the road to another area instead of the excess water being wasted by evaporation.
Pruz Gaming so it can flow through to the channels underneath and get recycled dumb ass.
Pruz Gaming Bacause of gravity?
I love these kind of comments on these videos basically pointing out the cons of the video.
I totally get how a "thirsty concrete" could be useful in some circumstances, but claiming that it will help maintain the Yellowstone ecosystem by putting the water back into the aquifer just doesn't make any sense. The water would just evaporate or spill off the edge of normal concrete, putting the water back into the aquifer as well. Just doesn't make sense...
Jay Rowberry - Agreed!
My thought exactly. This is just some hair brained feel good nonsense.
Jay Rowberry, I totally agree. the idea of thirsty concrete is great for when you have a large expanse of concrete, like a parking lot which blocks water from entering the groom's, but it's pretty pointless on a path 2m wide where water just wanted over the sides anyway.
But the whole point is that its made from recycled tires
What it's probably doing is reducing the water shed off those walk ways to get the water to the ground faster. Notice how it distributes down in a showering pattern below? One of the biggest problems with water on concrete is that it directs the water more into a stream that erodes around walkways quickly and prevents water from reaching the ground quickly to be absorbed or shed naturally. Instead what happens is if there's enough of it in an area you wind up with flash flood situations and water leaves the area too fast to be useful.
Depending on how many walkways this place has part of the goal must be to get the water to the ground and prevent the walkways from becoming eroded drainage areas that direct water away from the park and instead let it drain more naturally into the ground.
I'm not sure they necessarily needed to make it from old tires, but I can see the practical point of it to reduce water shed out of the park.
Its not really absorbing anything if the water just runs straight through it...
The Dank Memeist holy Gabe
The Dank Memeist
Yas
Classic no that's percolation. Absorption is going into it and being held there. Sponges are absorbent because the water enters and is held in there until you wring it out.
oh ok
Or just you don't use concrete at all in a place like this.
Zoltán Boros Damnit that's too simple!
Zoltán Boros Yellowstone has many dangerous areas to walk in. The pathways make those areas accessible.
@Zach Jezek Or people could just stay the fuck out of those areas.
Zach Jezek why the fuck must there be pathways? If you can't hold your own fuck off. It's fucking ridiculous what we're doing to "wild" national parks.
Net_Chix_AnKill? Exactly.
Hell yeah let's put recycled rubber tire all over our national park that sounds like a really environmentally good idea thanks Michelin knocked another one out of the park
"absorbs".
passes through. havent watched the vid yet so i dont comment lol :D
ok now i watched the vid. the idea seems much dumber now.
1. americans don't seem to know what absorb means
2. it doesn't do anything to the water distribution unless you have big parking lots or cover large areas of land in other ways. if water comes on a pathway that isn't permiable it will just flow off and eventually hit the dirt/ground or small waterpits will evaporate which will have little to no effect.
3. the chemicals in the binding agent as well as the chemicals released when exposed to solar light as well as the chemicals released from other ways of decomposition from the rubber or binding agent is probably not very good for the "delicate enviroment"
4. i think michelin just wanted to get rid of some tyres lol
Endjo agree
People are so stupid
Doesn’t absorb all of the water dumbass
I know what absorb means and im American...
If this was used then the streets will be a jungle because the roots and plants can go through the concrete
It is only used on Yellowstone, however, what you said may become true if they actually planted tree seeds into the ground
The key to using any type of permeable surface is the ability of the underlying soil to actually infiltrate the rainfall which moves through the permeable surface. if the underlying soils do not infiltrate the rainfall, then there is not much difference between permeable surfaces and standard pavement. As far as freeze/thaw cycles, this also depends on the soil under the permeable material to be very well drained so that the soil under the surface stays in an unsaturated condition. If there is no water in the soil below the surface, then there will be no issue with freezing and potential frost heaves. (Civil Engineer with a lot of experience with stormwater management)
Steven Trinkaus well said but its the rainfall that infiltrates the soil,not the other way around
I bet animals love drinking old tire and tar water
and what about the particles of plastic from the tires that wont decompose and then drain into the "delicate ecosystem"?
Adam Jaster I see what you are trying to say but plastic doesn't decompose
Karan Chawla plastic does photodegrade
How long does plastic take to photodegrade now?
thewickets1 it does VERY VERY slowly
Loopywalker takes i think millions of years
*walks around yellow stone "DANG GIRL LEMME GETYO NUMBER"
Boi she toxic
Still not as thirsty as my ex
The Netherlands use this for the highways, the call it ZOAB, Very open asphalt concrete.
Wait then wouldn’t it be called VOAC
I feel like this could have unintended consequences considering the materials tires are made from over the years probably might break down and leech into the water sources for this ecosystem...but at the same time im no expert on the subject
Alicia Ruiz more thank likely yes tiny bits and pieces will more thank likely start to break off after its first winter and summer.
this seems wrong. the net water is not going to significantly change. the regular pavement would just run the water to the side of the trail and a few feet of water displacement will make zero difference to the environment.
meanwhile the tires are full of toxic chemicals which will gradually leech from all that water passing over so much surface area.
further, in material this porous you are going to get seed and root penetration ln which is going to tear it apart.
I think they blew it here.
Paved surfaces causes erosion when water runs off the edge of a pathway during storms, releasing additional sediment into nearby water streams.
Gravel surfaces also cause erosion.
The best option for developed "touristy" trails is porous thirsty concrete, followed by gravel in less touristy trails, and dirt trails for other regular and/or remote trails.
(My experience: I know this as an avid professional hiker who's very familiar with trail building, environmental practices, forest ecosystems, and the like. I've hiked on all sorts of trail surfaces,-even off trail in remote regions (don't do this unless you're experienced with GPS and/or map and compass, however, and it isn't in sensitive, illegal, or dangerous locations.).)
Aside from everything else, considering how porous it is, if it were to rain and it would freeze into ice, wouldn't that practically weaken this "thirsty concrete" dramatically every winter? If the ice melts, it can "absorb" it. However, just like any other rock in nature, it will eventually break down. And when it does break down, this leftover-tire plastic won't do this "delicate" environment any good.
ΚΛΣ The rocks will break down, eventually because of the weathering by the water, but I think that that'd take a "long ass time" to accomplish, and the rubber could just be ripped up, ground and mixed again.
Ethan Peters It can be ripped back up, but that still isn't very efficient is it? It's much better than the concrete pathways in one way or another, so I'm not complaining, but if it has to be eventually ripped back up and redone/reapplied only for that cycle to repeat again, it's really not at it's full potential, or it's full efficiency. However, it's the most efficient thing we have as of right now, so I'm not really trying to complain.
+ΚΛΣ It's made out of rubber, its flexible, so it won't break. It won't erode any time soon.
Squiddi And rubber dries out in 3-5 years. Then it begins to crack. Even if this is some sort of incredible industrial rubber, it will still crack in about a decade, I am guessing. All rubber cracks when they are not properly lubricated
S.M.P Are you comparing the rubber on vehicles to this stationary rubber?
I like how this video isn't about what needs to be done to help the ecosystem in yellow stone, but what is being done.
In the Netherlands we call it ZOAP.
*ZOAB Zeer Open Asfalt Beton
Won't this make the ground underneath the concrete erode faster which will make big holes which will broke the concrete at some of its points because it doesn't have enough ground underneath to support it?
Wendy Wirawan well I think the concrete will just sag and keep falling. It's made of rubber so it's probably got some flex...
then it gets cold and the water freezes and cracks it
they must have been really
tired
stop
Plz no more.
The rangers: We have finally finished installing thirsty concrete around every gyser!
Yellowstone: lol get rekt *blows up, destroying humanity*
It's not absorbing it's just keeping the water from pooling by spreading
Too bad tires a fucking toxic. Remember the time when they thrown tires at the sea expecting it'll become a coral reef? They got an underwater tire desert instead.
Kevinacho Murillo
Wait, who the fuck.
"We were the material of choice because of the zero environmental impact that we have," Bagnall tells Business Insider.
Kevinacho Murillo
Ikr
What I worry about is what'll happen to the water as it continuously filters through the rubber and possibly picks up toxins and little bits and pieces of it over time...
lovely to see some real environmental engagement in a country full of wasters and polluters. absoluteley lovely, keep it up!
They should make one that absorbs lava
In Yellowstone there is NO lava in less your talking about something else
They could use the lava to make roads dams and rivers.
I'm thirsty for a glass of water now...
Solar freakin thirsty concrete LED hyperloop walkways!
One of our country's greatest sites of creation? Agreed. :)
what happens when it clogs with dirt and sand after a month?
wait for acid rain or something
Also what Happens when someone sprays flex seal on it
Rotated Now THATS ALOTTA DAMAGE
The rain would filter through the dirt
Water flows through dirt and sand
do you know how deep the earths crust is? it'll just create a water reserve and if it deepens it'll just evaporate from the heat
Cool. A lot of cities in Europe could use this as well due to the intense rains and floods they have been experiencing for years now!
this is great, love the national parks out west!
Cities on coastal areas prone to flooding/hurricanes/tsunamis should use this system, it would save millions of dollars in the long run and lives too.
LOL! "Rain water and melted snow" because if water froze while going through the expansion would destroy it, hope yellowstone doesn't exeperience real winters
Like it does to regular roads?
Bro you act like youre a scientist with actual knowledge...
Its actually high scholl physics
Bbianchi
That spelling is like young children’s spelling and grammar
Same with you Johnson Tang
Bbianchi no it is 6th grade science
I've walked on it at Yellowstone. It has a comfortable soft feel on your feet. Not slippery.
Congratulations at filling the local water supply with toxic crap
getl0st ah don't worry it's only in a national park only animals will have to deal with the possible toxic soup that will form eventually.
Mr Fisher ur comment was sarcastically dumb
like that shit won't get filtered at all
Shut yo bitch mouth
If water contacts rubber or plastic it doesn't go toxic.
Leslie Knope sure has made some big strides, thank you Leslie.
It will help preserve it
At least until the supervolcano erupts
It's so cool i want to drink it!
What if someone drops slippery acid 🧐🤔
Aguminatii magic
It goes through
Good idea. This should be what roads should be made of in cities, so that we don't get massive stormwater runoff.
what if someone spills oil?
paolo volpe then we die
If you fall on it will you get injured worse than normal concrete?
the emperor123
No, it is not softer either
I'm pretty sure it would have been mentioned already but just in case it hadn't that isn't absorbing anything.
absorb
əbˈzɔːb,əbˈsɔːb/
verb
1.
take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action.
"buildings can be designed to absorb and retain heat"
synonyms:soak up, suck up, draw up/in, take up/in, blot up, mop up, sponge up, sop up
"when wood gets wet, it absorbs water and expands.
I seem to be missing the point of this.
To recharge the groundwater table
50 gallons of water vs one thirsty boi
theres poor africans dying of thirst and your giving slab of concrete 50 gallons of water
children in africa could have eaten that concrete
SHOTS FIRED
Punk Tattoo Guy take it easy it a joke
thanks for the chuckle, chummley
Oh shit! Its punk tattoo guy! APS baby!
Thank you so much for your service Michelin. Yellowstone would be a total cesspool without your sacrifices
Hey its rice krispy treats
It also feels more comfortable to walk on than the old asphalt they use on older parts of the trails. More shock absorption
Is it volcano proof?
What the fuck do you think?
Yes, of course! Let's start making out buildings out of tires!
All roads need to use this type of concrete. Solves _hydroplanning_ issues.
it can drain lava too???
My college used this pavement because the rubber mixed in made the asphalt easier on the knees. I think it's ability to wick away water was discovered as a useful side effect.
It's Porous Concrete! Bloody hell these names are pathetic!
Porous conecrete sounds equally as stupid.
adamsrealm it's called permeable surface._.
WE NEEDED THIS IN FLORIDA AND HOUSTON
ok lets see.. youre burying tires at yellowstone.. why
That concrete is thirsty?
Im all up for it, concrete. I'm ready
Is it just me that thinks this will cause sinkholes
Hats off to this awesome invention. Very nice
This is great who ever did this, thank you
I went to Canberra in Australia for my school camp. When we went to eat and have a rest we went on the balcony and where I sat was like the concrete in this video. One of my friends "accidentally"poured a bit of her water in her bottle on the stone chair. Since we did that we sat on the floor about two in a half minutes later the water was absorbed and we we're like whatttt so we wanted to put more water on it. Lucky we weren't in trouble hehe
Dang that rock is hella thirsty
Finally people are helping the ecosystem. And not killing it
Ash: 'GO CONCRETE'
Concrete use thirst!
Concrete: I NEEEEEED WATERRR
If we will not get enough rain in future then we can use this
Essentially, its supposed to decrease surface runoff, increase lag time, and eliminate flooding.
should use this to floor public restrooms. lay down a stainless steel funnel-shaped footing and add this stuff to level the floor. you'd just have to hose the room down to clean the floors. ring the drain at the bottom with heating elements to sterilize the outflow.
Clan we start using this in Canada for our harsh winters that would make a world of difference on roadways sidewalks ad better drainage
2,219,789 acres in Yellowstone park.
The area covered by roads *and* walkways must be a minuscule percentage of the total covered area.
This is a solution without a problem.
This isn't new but it's great that they decided to do this.
This place fascinates me
Now that is a brilliant way to recycle old tires.
The problem with this paving is when it freezes. the ice forms on top. Ice can also crack the pavement apart when it is trapped in the membrane. I love this paving material for many area but it isn't perfect. It is perfect for parking lots and low use roads/trails.
England definitely needs this
When I first saw a video on that, I only thought to myself...
"Sweet, another great, futuristic invention that will never make it to conventional use."
luckily, I was wrong.
Believe it or not, I've gone to school for several years studying concrete.
This is not called "thirsty concrete" it's called "pervious concrete".
It's very useful, as it is good for the environment. It naturally filters out impurities in water, and it's actually cheaper to make than traditional concrete.
it's called pervious concrete, they've been using it on military runways for some time now.
So my childhood playgrounds swing set filling? Lol they make it sound revolutionary
This same material was used in many indoor soccer fields in the South Florida area and many goalies got cancer because they were diving onto the (apparently toxic) material.
Oh yeah, rubber and bonding agents aren't toxic or anything. I wonder if it's fireproof, aswell.
and it all goes boom..
The song goes perfectly with this.
Don't know why but I said with emphasis, "love it". It's the simple things that make my day. Haha.
This would be amazing if used in places affected by droughts such as California.