Poor Roads Could Just be Paved Over with Micro-Rebar Cement

The first city that should come to mind for this is Houston, then of course all of Louisiana.

Houston roads are literally the street of the streets. They are so bad that they have made citizens flee to the suburbs, and that is no joke. One of the main issues with Houston roads besides them being in horrible disrepair, has been their design with regard to their curbs. Houston curbs were so poorly designed that one might could attribute the economic fallout which lent to the poor maintenance of the roads to the curbs themselves. In Houston, there is no buffer between curb and road like in other cities, and likely those designs were direct effects of the lessons learned there. The better design is to include about a foot of concrete ditch between pavement and curb that has a different texture being unpaved so that distracted drivers can feel that their vehicle has left the roadway so they can recover just in time, it also gives a little extra room to the road, for error.

In H-Town, there is no room for error, and many a driver has gone down from a curb strike which can destroy a front-end because it causes the tire to catch and turn into the curb more, ripping the linkage off and/or destroying the power steering system. Later on down the road such accidents compound in to deadly affairs, hyper-extenuated under a poor economy. Many folks don’t have the funds for repairs or haven’t gotten the training to do them themselves or properly from the poor state...car companies are not sharing repair manuals and guides similarly, making only youtube or the neighbor’s dog to turn to for the best help. Ergo, you can tell that many a marriage and many a life have ended sourly stemming from an aggravated killer-curb bite. Throw in the realities of Thimerosal poisoning, partying, purple syrup drank, alcohol, weed and the need to self-medicate Hg exposure over the last half-century and you get the picture.

Nature often is efficient, so when you see options to do the same, you can bet you’re gonna be a beast in that mode when you execute and strike when the iron is hot. This opportunity is presenting itself to us here and now with the revelation of Secession with respect to micro-rebar and its nature.

Micro-rebar is twice as strong as normal concrete, and that’s using the same fill...now, there are more advanced fills which make cement even more strong and more pliable, which is good for long-term roadway use as the ground and the weight of time and traffic eventually take their tolls. Most importantly and key is that micro-rebar concrete can be laid sans re-bar...it’s just a pour-and-go type deal. With standard old-school re-bar, a normal block might take a week or more to complete, and that’s if things go right, with micro-rebar, you could pave a whole block in a half-day. Now, those figures are considering that the existing roadway is already demolished, torn up and hauled off first, which is more time consuming and labor intensive than laying the actual new road the old fashioned way with re-bar. All things considered, one block might take you anywhere from two weeks to a month or perhaps more in some cases, duly.

BUT, with micro-rebar, we could just poor the new road over the old and be done with it, especially using more advanced fills, because there is not need to level everything for the re-bar, just maybe a few touch-ups here and there and then pour over and let everything settle. Furthermore, the higher strength of this new concrete keeps it weight down enough to negligible. Once more though is that Houston’s all but insurmountable problems with their aggravated killer-curbs could be simultaneously taken out. All that would need to happen would be for the drainage intakes to be raised some, which needs to happen anyway. Part of the issues experienced during Hurricane Harvey were due to the lack of gratings on the drainage intakes which caused debris to clog the drainage systems. Having the roads a tad higher may also help the aggregate ability for flood control, with water being able to run over onto land where it can be better absorbed into the soil in some cases. At every rate though, the money saved on such a revamp being done with micro-rebar would mean that flood prone areas could get a TOTAL makeover, with their curbs totally redone and perhaps made even deeper, with ditches of course.

The fact still stands though that simply paving over existing roadways would be the most beneficial option, which could be accomplished perhaps one to two orders of magnitude faster. In nature’s terms; one order of magnitude means that you’re definitely doing it, two orders of magnitude means that you’re definitely definitely doing it. Not doing something like that on one order in my experience is grounds for a break up if you’re dating seriously, and then on two orders is grounds for a divorce if you’re married...if not, one order to me would mean that you might not be getting a date any time soon, and on two, you might be getting an early visit from the antiquated lawncare specialist…that’s just a no-BS-blackhawk-down assessment.

And there are many other advancements that we already know of that can be integrated into these roads for a fraction of the cost of what it would take to redo a road the old fashioned way. Firstly would be to construct them in a way that would allow them to be replaced in a modular fashion, with sinks pre-installed for crane hooks to screw into so that segments could be replaced easily...that would be achieved of course by laying some sort of barrier between the existing road and the new pavement so that it does not stick too firmly (those sinks might also be usable by emergency crews to tie pully systems into for pull systems to quickly move disabled vehicles as well).

The most anticipated tech though would be ingredients that cause piezo-like effects from the pressure of passing vehicles’ tires, or others which absorb energy from the sun and thermal expansion of the concrete, creating enough residual low-current to run embedded sensors, batteries, and triangulation equipment for a whole manner of uses, from vehicle position tracking and collision avoidance, and for even illuminated markers and luminescent paint, or transmitters for real-time traffic data and RFID tracking to prevent thefts or police chases, etc, etc. The only question is will New Orleans get this stuff before the sea level rises too high? Who knows? But we do know that during the last interglacial period the global average temperature was higher than it is now, and so were sea levels. To assume that New Orleans wouldn’t naturally be overcome by the waves would be foolish, almost as foolish as driving in Louisiana.

To me, this comes down to the issue of nuclear warfare at the end of the day. There are over 10,000 large nuclear weapons in the world arsenal, this we know of. So we just have to ask ourselves, or nature really, “what is the ratio at which that fact intersects stupid?” As with roadway re-development concerning micro-rebar...we have here a simple technology that is better than the one which came before it, which by all means could have been developed first if we had been smart enough...it is at least 10 times better in every way, 10 times cheaper...time is ticking and there are people dying on the roadways and families being torn apart from lack of maintenance. Other places in the world are 10 times as worse due to our poor oversight of our own treasury, the very source of our money, our liquid energy. Our quick adoption and deployment of these kinds of techs would breath life into this dying patient we call our Mother, as she lays bleeding out on her own pavement while most of us just watch or even crack jokes and think that it’s best not to do anything. Funny thing is, those people who think that would be right, for their own damned sake, and ours too, but only if we take their word for it, see. This is not rocket surgery here, folks!

I would bet my bottom dollar that for us not to make the right move would be to intersect the magic sign of hmmm?...what else would all of those nukes be for? For some, that might not be the best thing to say, because from the way things are, it might be smarter to assume that such things wouldn’t get done solely and simply to actually bring about nuclear exchanges. Some people are just like that...so just remember that, be prepared and make it to the voting booths for Secession, which of course would imply that we make sure our representatives make sure that secession makes it on the ballot...and bear in mind that the type of person who always hawks for war and destruction usually ends up in the accident, while the rest of us enjoy our video games. In the future, neuro-integrated VR might make things real enough to have sufficed for those of us who got their coal the good old fashioned way. There is a reason the call it “re”-bar.