Check this out! ...wonderful...
" The days of dull, grey concrete could be about to end. A Hungarian architect has combined the world's most popular building material with optical fiber from Schott to create a new type of concrete that transmits light. "
-- R'zenboom Signal.ds
And a simple Google search would have told you this is OLD news.
well, excu-u-uu-se me!
"zenboom" wrote in news:d8bqb4$2l$ snipped-for-privacy@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net:
SOmething like that was shown on HGTV a couple months ago, but it used less of the fiber.
What I have been wondering is, would a wall of this stuff act like a thermal mass (storing heat that's released slowly), or like a window (allowing exchange of heat but no real storage).
I had this idea for having a thermal mass (wall) in one of my little designs I play with, shaped like an elongated Bell Curve, with a space between i tand windows, and a venting system (I'd posted a simple diagram some time back.
It might look interesting to have a wall that's part solid concrete and part this stuff.
Even more potentially nifty-looking, I wonder whether a *gradation* is possible, one material fading into the other, an airbrush effect =:-D ! Esp. if *colored* fibers could be used! Wow!
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