Comments on: Your Next House Could Be Made out of Corn

By: 3 Surprising Ways To Build A Healthy Green House | Crisp Green

3 Surprising Ways To Build A Healthy Green House | Crisp Green — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:05:20 +0000

[…] For those of you who might be interested in building your own house out of unlikely green materials, check out this Instructable guide to building a house out of used plastic bottles, and read this great Cleantechnica article about why your next house might be built of corn. […]

By: Mike Nemeth

Mike Nemeth — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:23:47 +0000

Fascinating. OSB corn edition. Why not? We went from rough-cut to ship-lap to plywood to various particle boards.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:34:28 +0000

This is a good idea as long as it doesn’t require us to grow more corn and soy. Making use of leftovers or waste is a good thing, but the Government is directly subsidizing these industries at the detriment of other food crops. Cheap corn and soy are indirectly causing health problems in the USA by keeping junk foods cheap and healthy fruits and vegetables comparatively expensive. Also, corn is fed to all of our livestock and often results in unhealthy animals due to the fact that most of them were not made to eat corn. Governement subsidies need to stop. We may be helping the environment with some of these technologies but the people of our country are becoming more unhealthy and the Government shares part of the blame for that.

By: Donald Cordes

Donald Cordes — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:31:48 +0000

Only a certain amount of the “corn stover” left over after harvesting can be sustainably removed from the fields. That said, Iowa Agricultural BioFibers of Harlan,Iowa sustainably harvests stover and has developed the technology to make a series of value added, all natural products from the stover; such as livestock feed, Kitty litter, planting mulch, fuel pellets and feedstock for any application such as cellulosic ethanol production.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:05:43 +0000

Unbelievable! This is brilliant. Imagine how many trees the cornboard product will save. Sounds like there is enough of the stover produced each year to make a shit load of board…