This is why I only use fast-growing, purpose-harvested pine.

This, and the "costs money" part. You either have an entire lumber mill in your garage, or you buy the expensive, pre-milled stuff. There's no way wood furniture is cheap. It's like if they can't sell us the finished furniture, they're going to get their profit from the materials to build it.

Fuck Capitalism, and the billionaires who leech from us.

Wait till you spend a hundred bucks on a small piece of rosewood to build a guitar bridge and cock it up.

40 year mature conifers also have completely different properties and is subpar for the things oak is great for. A conifer won't work as a mast for example. Fast grown confiers will rot like crazy.

They work well enough for situations where they are protected from the elements, which is why they are used in construction. But an old house made from slow growth, espicially a lot of hardwoods, won't instantly rot when water gets in.

Check out “daisugi,” a Japanese pollarding technique that produces usable timber even faster (basically having one rootstock grow multiple main trunks). IIRC in the 1700’s they were harvesting pine every 25 years

However, it ain’t no replacement for oak. Does smell a lot better, though

"I know not which weapons will be used to fight WWIII, but it'll be sticks and stones in WWIV" to misquote whoever that was. Maybe it's still a little early. heh

TIL.

France also has more forest that ever in recorded history but most of them are exploited, the number of tree or the surface of the forest isn't a metric for richness weither in biodiversity or in material quality. Let hope our ruler realised that and give the forest the very-long term strategy and forward planning it needs to thrive.

Time zones + daylight savings.

Yes, I did take a estimation that centuries of growth that hadn't happened yet won't happened for the two months and three days we have left for 2027. It is an estimation rather than a fact but I'm confident in it and will stick by it.

I won't say. I'm not educated on the sudject. I just know that Louis the XIV infamously used up all the oak for it military ambition, that and all the country money and that today there is no oak older that 200 years old because of him specifically. That's the extend of my knowledge on the subject.

Yes and a good use or such pine trees that are unfortunatly use in other places to replace forest with trees fields like it was the same things.

Fortunatly that has happened near my home yet but what I hear about l'Ouest is assez inquiétant.

Which is heavier? Idk think I have ever see a read oak. It doesn grow naturally were I am. But it looks like a pretty tree.

No that is not true. I think you are confusing it with the fact that Denmark and Sweden has the record for two countries which has been in war with each other the most.

I guarantee you that the UK for example was in more wars in the 19th century alone than Denmark has participated in for centuries.

Foster, don't let USA hear this.

Actually, if you study history, one of the most important elements is studying historiography. So no, you don't just get given facts by some professor and have to judge for yourself.

And the cannon shots every morning.

It's "um" not "umm". /s

Ehhh there's plenty of cool stuff being built and done without real economic incentive. Just look at the number of old steam locomotives that are being restored, or the number of new-build steam locomotives. These are multimillion dollar projects with no conceivable return on investment, yet people keep doing them because these are cool things that can be done!

They are “rare” in the sense that they are never found in high concentrations, and yeah you have to process a lot of shit you dont want out in order to get them isolated. Other than that they are literally everywhere, just in tiny bits

rare earth because there's only one earth duhhhh

;-)

Because they behave similarly electrically, chemically and dynamically by mass. So all the various ways of processing materials then always have a difficult path to separating the elements that are close to one another. Plus they're actually rare so only found in high enough concentration to make any economical sense getting from specific areas until there's a big enough market.

The joke is, you spend hundreds of years building a forest and here comes Google.