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

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?

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

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 (-_-;)

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

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

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

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

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?🙃

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?

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

Who wouldn't

lol the tires they use in the gravel is sponsored by them.

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?

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

lmaooooooooo

Wait then wouldn’t it be called VOAC

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.

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...

Steven Trinkaus well said but its the rainfall that infiltrates the soil,not the other way around

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

It is only used on Yellowstone, however, what you said may become true if they actually planted tree seeds into the ground

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.

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...

*ZOAB Zeer Open Asfalt Beton

Frits Blankenzee hahaha

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.

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?

Alicia Ruiz more thank likely yes tiny bits and pieces will more thank likely start to break off after its first winter and summer.

Boi she toxic

stop

Plz no more.

In Yellowstone there is NO lava in less your talking about something else

They could use the lava to make roads dams and rivers.

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...

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.).)

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

i mean do u think that they would spend so much money without researching it first?

Yes because a certain percent of that money ends up in someones pocket. And since you are an expert what trace chemicals does this new concrete have that wont disturb the eco system?

snoopy A poods The material is made from a mix of used tires as well as bits of stone. The aggregate is held together with a polymer binder invented by Flexi-Pave manufacturer KBI, a partner along with Michelin on the project. And because the material becomes inert after its manufactured, no toxins leach into the soil as the rainwater flows through it.

they stole the money for it why would they care

I like how you think chemicals won't affect the environment. Its quite cute.

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

paolo volpe then we die

Aguminatii magic It goes through

What the fuck do you think?

Yes, of course! Let's start making out buildings out of tires!

the emperor123 No, it is not softer either

To recharge the groundwater table

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!

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.

Porous conecrete sounds equally as stupid.

adamsrealm it's called permeable surface._.

Trainfan1055 because it is a beautiful landmark and it will take years before the volcano even erupts. Also there will be signs that it will erupt, warning everyone says before it will actually erupt

Lmao that was such a moronic remark on so many levels. First off, the national park itself is beautiful. No one knows when the volcano is going to erupt, and it probably won't any time soon, so it's pretty much out of the question. The volcano itself may even be dormant. Also, they're not standing on top of the damn volcano... No one is letting a highly improbably event such as a damn volcanic eruption ruin an awe inspiring trip, get real dude.

Well to me, it makes sense to stay as far away from something that dangerous as possible.

Trainfan1055 Like a train? If you were to somehow be hit by a train, you are most certainly dead.

Okay, look, I am terrified of volcanoes. I always have been ever since I was a kid. That is why I can't imagine going anywhere near one.

Joyce Yaba it can't be applied to cold areas, if the water were to freeze in the concrete it'd be ruined. Lol (So basically useless in Canada and USA)

but isn't yellowstone in the USA which is where they are doing this project in?

Joyce Yaba in Africa

snoopy A poods yeah that's really it, California it doesn't rain much (West Coast) and the east coast tends to get too cold besides Florida

Ilia Vakhitov but it doesn't rain lul

The Legend 27 they were talking about themselves as a nation

Same

I am from the slavic regions. Does it even matter?

The Legend 27 then don't watch it

NightRiderGost Everything changed when the fire nation attacked.