US railroads run on 450 million wooden crossties. A tie spends six to nine months in an open-air stack before it reaches the track. Green wood is full of water, which takes up the space the preservative needs. Koppers, a US wood-treatment company, buys oak and other hardwoods…
InventWood just cracked the code on something that sounds like science fiction. They've figured out how to make wood stronger than steel by restructuring it at the molecular level. This isn't your typical engineered lumber story. We're talking about a material that delivers 50%…
The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.
Chaco Canyon Great Houses have timber of more than 200,000 massive log beams. Where Ancestral Puebloans got the wood is no longer a mystery.
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Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation's newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today
There was no shortage of trees