Bioengineered Brick Wins 2010 Metropolis Next Generation Design Prize
Sand + bacteria = bricks!
“There are 130 billion coal-fired bricks manufactured each year worldwide… On average, the baking process emits 1.4 pounds of carbon per brick - more than the world’s entire aviation fleet….
If biomanufactured bricks replaced each new coal-fired brick on the planet, it would save nearly 800 million tons of CO2 annually.”
via 2020: Microbe-Bricks
