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Pykrete - "The Ice Concrete"
It is named as pykrete, in honour of Geoffrey Pyke, a British scientist. It is made by mixing approximately 14% sawdust or wood pulp and 86% water by weight and then frozen.The resulting material is strong and non-brittle. ...

Pykrete at LSG 9-11-08
Pykrete at LSG. Here is my set at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco last week. I am considering using archive.org for hosting audio from now on rather than burdening poor little cirrusoxide.com. The Internet Archive provides ...

using pykrete to slow global warming?
i remember watching a documentary a while back on pykrete ice, as aa material of about 14% sawdust and 86% water ice as being much stronger and melting much more slowly than ice. indeed i almost chose it as the subject of a materials ...

Halfbakery: Pykrete Lollies
However, with Pykrete Lollies a person needn't suffer a sticky hand or constipation ever again. These variously coloured and flavoured summertime treats are made from a blend of edible plant fibres and sugared water to create an almost ...

Al Fin: Seasteading on Pykrete, and Other Novel Uses
I first learned about the material called Pykrete while reading the blog "Colonize Antarctica." Pykrete is a mixture of wood fibre and ice, a combination that is very hard, very tough, floats, and is very slow to melt. ...

Pykrete: sawdust ice
Pykrete, also known as picolite, is a composite material made of approximately 14% sawdust (papershreds or wood pulp) and 86% water by weight then frozen. It is invented by Max Perutz during World War II. The material was proposed to ...

Super ice, Pykrete
They actually made a bunch of bricks out of pykrete and put it together to make the aircraft carrier. They didn't make it completly out pykrete either, they only used it make the armor and hold the basic structure together. ...

2 Million Ton Pykrete Aircraft Carrier In WW2 - Video
The UK and USA were going to build massive aircraft carriers out of pykrete (a mix of ice and sawdust as hard as concrete) to launch B29S against Japa. Watch Video about World War II,Pykerete,Aircraft carrier by Metacafe.com.

the uses of pykrete
lord mountbatten, who had championed the project for pyke, illustrated this the old-fashioned way in a meeting with churchill and other government officials in alberta; he had two blocks of ice, one regular and one pykrete (as it was ...

Building Pykrete (bulletproof ice)
if you are familiar to this, sorry in advance for any mistakes, if not here is a short explination of what pykrete is: ...