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Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court

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771 points abetusk | 3 comments | 18 Oct 24 08:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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rpigab ◴[18 Oct 24 15:00 UTC] No.41880041[source]▶
I am a French taxpayer.

This is not the most outrageous thing about taxpayer money at work that I learned today.

That would be the fact that local branches of the ministry of agriculture require wind turbine builders to put blue dyed water in concrete to make it friendly to all life or something, I'm not sure I understand, it's called Pneumatit®, and I'm not making this up.

It's biodynamics, it's biogeology (neither biology nor geology, not an actual science, it's more like dowsers). It's not only about wind turbines, it's in so many buildings now, but because it's not only approved but required on some public projects, it's... interesting. It's homeopathy for concrete, and like homeopathy in France, it'll receive government subsidies for far longer than it should.

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1. RansomStark ◴[18 Oct 24 15:06 UTC] No.41880098[source]▶
> It's homeopathy for concrete

you're really not joking

Pneumatit® is a liquid additive that permanently anchors a fine biological activity (liveliness) in the concrete Many people experience adverse effects that come from concrete - regardless of the design. This ranges from slightly subliminal discomfort to irritability, inner cold sensations, joint pain, exhaustion and organic disorders. Underlying such sensations is a reality, because the production of cement breaks through the bottom of the natural processes of life. Result: a lifeless building material with an absorbing effect on our organism [0].

[0] https://www.lehm-laden.de/en_GB/shop/pneumatit-pneumatit-50-...

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2. rpigab ◴[18 Oct 24 15:37 UTC] No.41880396[source]▶
Oh how I wish I was joking.

This stuff is apparently made from small bird femurs and nautilus shells grounded into powder, then add water, then diluted a million times so that they can sell olympic pools of the thing without running out of raw material. It's textbook homeopathic dilution.

3. jjcm ◴[18 Oct 24 18:13 UTC] No.41881985[source]▶
There's even more:

> The end product, ready for use, has the homeopathic format D7. This is another reason why Pneumatit® does not have any physical or chemical influence on the building material.

https://www.lehm-laden.de/en_GB/pneumatit

They even state that it doesn't have an effect on the physical properties of the material.