• Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 hours ago

      Roman concrete is unreinforced, meaning no rebar inside to rust. You can’t use modern construction techniques with unreinforced concrete. It can’t handle tension well.

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        Seriously, there’s a reason we don’t “build like the Romans”. We would be using 10x the concrete that we use now. We can’t even keep up with concrete demand now, I can’t even imagine how much worse the environment would already be if we needed 10x the concrete.