September 6th, 2008
Bamboo Education
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Project Bamboo- Last Online: Jul 10 2008
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Bamboo Education
Thomas Edison's first successful incandescent lamp (light bulb) used a filament made of carbonized bamboo. It was patented in 1880. This light bulb still burns today in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC.
Thomas Edison also used bamboo as rebar for the reinforcement of his swimming pool. To this day, the pool has never leaked.
Alexander Graham Bell used bamboo for the first phonograph needle.
Bamboo survived the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and provided the first re-greening after the blast in 1945.
With a tensile strength superior to mild steel (withstands up to 52,000 pounds of pressure psi) and a weight-to-strength ratio surpassing that of graphite, bamboo is the strongest growing woody plant on earth.
There is a suspension bridge in China 250 yards long, 9 foot wide and rests entirely on bamboo cables fastened over the water. It doesn't have a single nail or piece of iron in it. Used in ladders, scaffolding and construction, bamboo is twice as stable as oak, walnut and teak.
Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on this planet and provides the best canopy for the greening of degraded lands. (Some species of Bamboo grow as much as 4 feet a day). Its strands release 35% more oxygen than equivalent strands of trees. Bamboo can also lower light intensity and protects against ultraviolet rays.
Bamboo has thousands of uses including airplane "skins", aphrodisiacs, blinds, brushes, crafts, desalination filters, diesel fuel, fly-fishing poles, flooring, food, furniture, medicine, musical instruments, ornaments, paper, rope, scaffolding, umbrellas, walking sticks, wind chimes and many, many, more.
Bamboo is harvested and replenished with no impact to the environment. It can be selectively harvested annually and is capable of complete regeneration without need to replant. Bamboo is an enduring natural resource and provides income, food, and housing to over 2.2 billion people worldwide.
Thomas Edison also used bamboo as rebar for the reinforcement of his swimming pool. To this day, the pool has never leaked.
Alexander Graham Bell used bamboo for the first phonograph needle.
Bamboo survived the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and provided the first re-greening after the blast in 1945.
With a tensile strength superior to mild steel (withstands up to 52,000 pounds of pressure psi) and a weight-to-strength ratio surpassing that of graphite, bamboo is the strongest growing woody plant on earth.
There is a suspension bridge in China 250 yards long, 9 foot wide and rests entirely on bamboo cables fastened over the water. It doesn't have a single nail or piece of iron in it. Used in ladders, scaffolding and construction, bamboo is twice as stable as oak, walnut and teak.
Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on this planet and provides the best canopy for the greening of degraded lands. (Some species of Bamboo grow as much as 4 feet a day). Its strands release 35% more oxygen than equivalent strands of trees. Bamboo can also lower light intensity and protects against ultraviolet rays.
Bamboo has thousands of uses including airplane "skins", aphrodisiacs, blinds, brushes, crafts, desalination filters, diesel fuel, fly-fishing poles, flooring, food, furniture, medicine, musical instruments, ornaments, paper, rope, scaffolding, umbrellas, walking sticks, wind chimes and many, many, more.
Bamboo is harvested and replenished with no impact to the environment. It can be selectively harvested annually and is capable of complete regeneration without need to replant. Bamboo is an enduring natural resource and provides income, food, and housing to over 2.2 billion people worldwide.
Project Bamboo- Last Online: Jul 10 2008
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Bamboo Growing Habits
Bamboo canes only grow for 60 days. No matter how tall they get or how large the diameter. Start to Finish a single cane (culm) shoots to the sky in 60 days. Bamboo has been known to grow up to 4 feet in a single day!
Growth starts in the Spring and new shoots sprout out of the ground (from whats called rhizome nodes). The culms diameter, as it emerges, tells the story for its entire life. The girth of the cane at 1 inch will be the same at 50 feet. A new cane could emerge from the ground at 6 inches in diamter for example!
The cane will put on new foliage every year depending on the species and can last up to 14 years.
Bamboo uses energy from itself (the colony) forming new growth each year improving in diameter and height.
This colony plant is a member of the grass family. With all things considered: species selection, soil, sunlight, climate and watering conditions..... Bamboo takes about three years to get established and will continue to grow bigger and more numerous yearly reaching their maximum size in 4-15 years (depending on species).
Bamboo canes only grow for 60 days. No matter how tall they get or how large the diameter. Start to Finish a single cane (culm) shoots to the sky in 60 days. Bamboo has been known to grow up to 4 feet in a single day!
Growth starts in the Spring and new shoots sprout out of the ground (from whats called rhizome nodes). The culms diameter, as it emerges, tells the story for its entire life. The girth of the cane at 1 inch will be the same at 50 feet. A new cane could emerge from the ground at 6 inches in diamter for example!
The cane will put on new foliage every year depending on the species and can last up to 14 years.
Bamboo uses energy from itself (the colony) forming new growth each year improving in diameter and height.
This colony plant is a member of the grass family. With all things considered: species selection, soil, sunlight, climate and watering conditions..... Bamboo takes about three years to get established and will continue to grow bigger and more numerous yearly reaching their maximum size in 4-15 years (depending on species).