Self-Healing Concrete Might Fix Potholes Forever

Self-Healing Concrete Might Fix Potholes Forever. It’s time for a quick geography lesson. There’s a city in Canada called Winnipeg. This city gave a whopping $9 million dollars budget to fix potholes alone, just for this year. And this budget only increases after every winter.

You see, when cities have extreme weather conditions in the winter, like Winnipeg, which actually had a day that it was colder than the surface of Mars, the concrete that’s laid out on the road isn’t meant to withstand such freezing temperatures.

There’s a solution to this issue that’s pretty interesting, and also environmentally friendly.

As we know, regular concrete has a massive carbon footprint, so technologies that boost its performance and enable it to last longer could have compounding benefits over the course of years for the environment. This has led to the development of self-healing concrete that can repair its own cracks. The newest type of this suped-up concrete makes use of an enzyme found in human blood. Crazy, right?

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Do you think self-healing concrete will fix the pothole issue? Do you actually care? 🤨