I heard the Gulf States import sand from Australia.
Tools: I used Blender to create the desert scene with the pyramid of Giza and the sand castle. The rest of the visual was made using RawGraphs and Illustrator.
Sources: Elhacham et al. (2020), Hackney et al. (2021), UNEP (2022)
What’s the plan for “running out of sand?” I’ve heard it mentioned many places and times, but haven’t really seen anything in the way of a solution.
18kg/day? No wonder my weight keeps going up!
What the hell, someone has been eating my sand for me, I haven’t had any of those 18 kg a day :c
How sand is used : aggregates,bricks,asphalt,concrete and desert.
I don’t know who is the mad lad that consumes 18kgs a day.
Well yeah how else are we supposed to harvest the spice
For those wondering – like me – why desert sand is unusable: it’s because the grains were eroded by wind rather than by water, and are therefore too smooth and rounded to lock together to form stable concrete. TIL.
Finally, actual dataisbeautiful
Damn thank you to the people making up for my failing to eat 18kg of sand a day
Just read Material World by Ed Conway and there was an entire section on sand. Super interesting
Is air not a resource anymore?
We’re already supposedly running out of sand. Add that to list of things that we’re running out of or its becoming harder to find.
Cool background, but a very poor way to present actual data
Now this is a cool visual. Easy to understand. Intriguing. I got to spend a while exploring it.
What section of the Voronoi diagram does microchips fall under?
You want Darth Vader? Because this is how we get Darth Vader?
And so castles made of sand
Fall in the sea eventually
Jimi H
My company has a factory that mines sand that is used in electronics. We have sold out everything for 2 years ahead and the customers have already paid in full. It’s crazy business.
I would love to see where atmospheric oxygen sits in this list. If it is even considered.
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>Desert sand is unusable
I heard the Gulf States import sand from Australia.
Tools: I used Blender to create the desert scene with the pyramid of Giza and the sand castle. The rest of the visual was made using RawGraphs and Illustrator.
Sources: Elhacham et al. (2020), Hackney et al. (2021), UNEP (2022)
What’s the plan for “running out of sand?” I’ve heard it mentioned many places and times, but haven’t really seen anything in the way of a solution.
18kg/day? No wonder my weight keeps going up!
What the hell, someone has been eating my sand for me, I haven’t had any of those 18 kg a day :c
How sand is used : aggregates,bricks,asphalt,concrete and desert.
I don’t know who is the mad lad that consumes 18kgs a day.
Well yeah how else are we supposed to harvest the spice
For those wondering – like me – why desert sand is unusable: it’s because the grains were eroded by wind rather than by water, and are therefore too smooth and rounded to lock together to form stable concrete. TIL.
Finally, actual dataisbeautiful
Damn thank you to the people making up for my failing to eat 18kg of sand a day
Just read Material World by Ed Conway and there was an entire section on sand. Super interesting
Is air not a resource anymore?
We’re already supposedly running out of sand. Add that to list of things that we’re running out of or its becoming harder to find.
Cool background, but a very poor way to present actual data
Now this is a cool visual. Easy to understand. Intriguing. I got to spend a while exploring it.
What section of the Voronoi diagram does microchips fall under?
If you want some extra reading on sand and its impacts on developing countries. Wired has a great longform piece, [The Deadly Global War for Sand](https://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/). Paywall free [link](https://archive.ph/20231119023723/https://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/).
You want Darth Vader? Because this is how we get Darth Vader?
And so castles made of sand
Fall in the sea eventually
Jimi H
My company has a factory that mines sand that is used in electronics. We have sold out everything for 2 years ahead and the customers have already paid in full. It’s crazy business.
I would love to see where atmospheric oxygen sits in this list. If it is even considered.
wow great another thing to worry about
I would know if I ate that much sand every day.
I think.