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<v Speaker 1>Let's say good morning now to the host of Home

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<v Speaker 1>on KFI our house, whisper Dean Sharp. Welcome back from vacation.

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<v Speaker 2>Dean, Thank you very much.

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<v Speaker 1>Ah, you're welcome. So today we're talking about like cool,

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<v Speaker 1>new futuristic things that you can get for your house,

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<v Speaker 1>not in the future, but right now here in the present.

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<v Speaker 2>This is true. This is true. Every year or so

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<v Speaker 2>I try and set aside at least a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>shows and we talk about new stuff that's out there

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<v Speaker 2>that really could change the game, as it were, when

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<v Speaker 2>it comes to your home or home building or some

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<v Speaker 2>aspect of home. And we've got a really cool list

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<v Speaker 2>this year.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, so give us, give us a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>the highlights. It sounds like you're fighting a bit of

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<v Speaker 1>a cold as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm I'm a little nasally this morning, so forgive

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<v Speaker 2>me for that. But all right, so right at the

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<v Speaker 2>top of the list. Super wood. What is super wooderwood? Well,

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<v Speaker 2>here's the thing. It's not so much a particular wood,

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<v Speaker 2>but it is a process now that any kind of

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<v Speaker 2>wood can go through that makes it get this stronger

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<v Speaker 2>than steel, eighty percent lighter than equivalent steel, and rot resistant,

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<v Speaker 2>fire resistant, water resistant. It's really kind of an amazing idea.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So here's my one question on this, because in

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<v Speaker 1>the wake of the wildfires in La County, they're talking

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<v Speaker 1>about how these all these fire burn areas are toxic

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<v Speaker 1>because the houses are built with thing with chemically you know,

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<v Speaker 1>altered building materials, right, right, So is that does that

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<v Speaker 1>superwood fall into that category?

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<v Speaker 2>Not at all, not at all. It is wood, it

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<v Speaker 2>is in fact, In fact, the strength of superwood doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>come from adding anything to the wood. It comes from

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<v Speaker 2>removing something from the wood. So it goes through a

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<v Speaker 2>little chemical treatment and the chemicals don't stick around. Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>The chemical treatment is the equivalent to the kind of

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<v Speaker 2>tree that we already take wood through to create pulp.

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<v Speaker 2>And what that does is it removes this part of

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<v Speaker 2>the wood that are lignins and what we call hemicellulose,

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<v Speaker 2>which are kind of the carbohydrates and the sugars inside

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<v Speaker 2>the wood. By the way, those are the materials that

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<v Speaker 2>bugs like termites like to eat. Okay, So imagine imagine this.

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<v Speaker 2>Imagine you take a regular piece of wood and you

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<v Speaker 2>let termites just get to it. You know, we've all

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<v Speaker 2>come across it that's got all these tunnels inside it,

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<v Speaker 2>all these voids, spaces where they have just eaten out

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<v Speaker 2>all of the goodness inside this wood. What they've left

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<v Speaker 2>behind are actually the strongest parts of the wood. And

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<v Speaker 2>now we take that after chemically removing those areas, We

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<v Speaker 2>take that kind of spongy, open hollow wood and we

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<v Speaker 2>apply heat and pressure to it to press it down,

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<v Speaker 2>recompress those areas and get them to find to each

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<v Speaker 2>other again the walls of those inner voids. And what

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<v Speaker 2>we end up with is a wood that is unbelievably strong,

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<v Speaker 2>no added chemicals to it whatsoever. It's wood. It's just

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<v Speaker 2>wood that's so cool.

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<v Speaker 1>And is it available now?

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<v Speaker 2>It is available now, just this year, just this year,

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<v Speaker 2>and they're beginning their rollout now because they're talking about

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<v Speaker 2>the possibilities of even creating car body frames, airplane frames,

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<v Speaker 2>and skyscrapers out of this material.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>But this year the rollout starts with siding and decking

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<v Speaker 2>materials and then it will move on to structural beams.

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<v Speaker 2>So imagine this. You talk about wildfire areas. Imagine that

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<v Speaker 2>you have an house on the open space edge of

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<v Speaker 2>a wildfire area. Imagine the freedom you have now from

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<v Speaker 2>a design perspective to say, you know what, I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to put wood siding on my house and it's gonna

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<v Speaker 2>be entirely class A fire rated because super wood burns

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<v Speaker 2>at the same temperature that's stone and brick burn.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, it's unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, And you're going to talk about more about this,

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<v Speaker 1>and I would love to talk more about this, and

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<v Speaker 1>your list of things is all things that I want

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<v Speaker 1>to find out more about. But we don't have time

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<v Speaker 1>here now, but we will this weekend on Home with

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<v Speaker 1>Dean Sharp, and that is Saturday from six to eight

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<v Speaker 1>and Sunday from nine to noon. And I will be

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<v Speaker 1>particularly tuned into the firefly petunia.

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<v Speaker 2>They glow in the dark.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a petunia that glows in the dark. Yes, and

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<v Speaker 1>there's no radioactivity.

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<v Speaker 2>No no. They've mixed it with a lubinescent mushroom gene

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<v Speaker 2>and now they glow at night.

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<v Speaker 1>That is so cool. All right, Dean Sharp, thank you

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<v Speaker 1>so much. Can't wait to listen to your show this

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<v Speaker 1>weekend again. It's a Home on KFI. It's six to

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<v Speaker 1>eight on Saturday morning and nine to noon on Sunday morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Cool things in the future that you can get right

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<v Speaker 1>now in the present.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll see you there, all right.