Conductive Concrete Offers Building Security

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 21, 2002 @07:28AM from the lacks-transparency dept.

zdburke writes: "In a slightly different spin on the electromagnet-protected server room in Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, the folks at the National Research Council have developed concrete that conducts electricity, or 'percolates,' allowing it to serve as an electromagnetic shield. Current uses lean toward heated loading docks, non-freezing bridges, and grounding large-scale electrical equipment, but the counter-espionage idea is cool. The NYTimes has a brief story, and the folks at UN Omaha have some great pictures. It's not exactly new (it won a Popular Science prize in 1997) but it's still cool stuff."

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Blocks Cell Phones? by hoggoth · 2002-03-21 07:32 · Score: 3, Insightful

I wonder what kind of cell phone signal I would get in a conductive-concrete building? Probably next to none...

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Re:Non-freezing bridges? by tkrabec · 2002-03-21 07:53 · Score: 3, Insightful

But if you can keep the ice from forming the water could run off the bridge and not freeze.

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