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  1. gatesnotes.com

    Have you hugged a concrete pillar today? A fascinating look at the stuff that makes modern life possible. By Bill Gates published on Thursday, Jun 12, 2014. Books. The car I drive to work is made of around 2,600 pounds of steel, 800 pounds of plastic, and 400 pounds of light metal alloys. The trip from my house to the office is roughly four ...
    • Have you hugged a concrete pillar today?

      Level 3: Two billion people live on level 3, between $8 and $32 a day. You have running water and a fridge in your home. You can also afford a motorbike to make getting around easier. Some of your kids start (and even finish) high school. Level 4: One billion people live on level 4. If you spend more than $32 a day, you're on level 4.

  2. gatesnotes.com

    Level 3: Two billion people live on level 3, between $8 and $32 a day. You have running water and a fridge in your home. You can also afford a motorbike to make getting around easier. Some of your kids start (and even finish) high school. Level 4: One billion people live on level 4. If you spend more than $32 a day, you're on level 4.
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  4. theobjectivestandard.com

    The next time you go outside, you'll probably walk along concrete sidewalks. Earlier this year, Bill Gates wrote an article, "Have You Hugged a Concrete Pillar Today?," about the tremendous importance of concrete to modern industrial life (I don't agree with all of Gates's article). Drawing on the work of historian Vaclav Smil, Gates ...
  5. wahlenworks.com

    The importance of concrete can't be overstated. It is the most widely used man-made material on the planet. A recent blog post by Bill Gates is titled, "Have You Hugged a Concrete Pillar Today?" He quotes Vaclav Smill who "argues that the most important man-made material is concrete, both in terms of the amount we produce each year and the total mass we've laid down.
  6. 3quarksdaily.com

    The car I drive to work is made of around 2,600 pounds of steel, 800 pounds of plastic, and 400 pounds of light metal alloys. The trip from my house to the office is roughly four miles long, all surface streets, which means I travel over some 15,000 tons of concrete each morning. Once I'm at the office, I usually open a can of Diet Coke.
  7. screamingjet.net

    Concrete is the foundation (literally) for the massive expansion of urban areas of the past several decades, which has been a big factor in cutting the rate of extreme poverty in half since 1990. In 1950, the world made roughly as much steel as cement (a key ingredient in concrete); by 2010, steel production had grown by a factor of 8, but ...
  8. republicofmining.com

    - The Blog of Bill Gates The car I drive to work is made of around 2,600 pounds of steel, 800 pounds of plastic, and 400 pounds of light metal alloys. The trip from my house to the off…
  9. concreteproducts.com

    In "Have You Hugged a Concrete Pillar Today?," Microsoft founder Bill Gates takes stock of Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization, ... In 1950, the world made roughly as much steel as cement (a key ingredient in concrete); by 2010, steel production had grown by a factor of 8, but cement had gone up by a factor of 25 ...

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