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A common misconception
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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Maybe this is just my Northeast US prejudice, but brick is so much classier. Also concrete doesn't age, but rebar sure does
Roman concrete is unreinforced, meaning no rebar inside to rust. You can't use modern construction techniques with unreinforced concrete. It can't handle tension well.
Seriously, there's a reason we don't "build like the Romans". We would be using 10x the concrete that we use now. We can't even keep up with concrete demand now, I can't even imagine how much worse the environment would already be if we needed 10x the concrete.
Yes I've been to the Pantheon and those walls are thicc
If we needed 10x the concrete, we wouldn't have built so many cheap ugly concrete buildings.