I'm certainly not going to bash a new material, as it may have usefulness far beyond what you envision. But for your ascribed uses, I have two questions that are most important in my mind.

And before I go off on this long rant, some mechanical questions: Have you looked into forming and cutting processes for this new material? I'd be interested to see what you can do and make with it, and how workable it is through various machining, casting, and possibly cold forging processes. Can it be plasticized? Porosity controlled? Various strengths and mechanical properties?

One: Stacked paper does not freely burn, and is not a fire hazard as it has no airspace inside it. Try it. My family is good friends with a gentleman who used to work at NIST, and did this very experiment as part of his work duties. The insulation, unfortunately, comes from airspace. What is the insulation value of your paper-based product without any airspaces? Have you tested it? I am not aware of paper (wood fiber), by itself, being a particularly effective thermal insulator. I draw this conclusion based on wood not being a particularly good insulator, as wood is made of tightly packed wood fiber.

Two: Recycling paper is one of the biggest "eco" frauds I can think of, next to plastic resin recycling. It's more expensive, and the chemicals used to recycle paper are tremendously toxic and harmful to the environment AND humans. Far more so than the logging industry. Just use fresh wood pulp. It's cheaper and better for the environment. Logging trees are specifically grown, like we grow corn, for worldwide industry. We don't cut down "natural" forest to fuel industry, as that's far more expensive than just growing a few hundred acres of trees in the same spots. Virgin forest is cut down to make room for new buildings. Ironically, cutting trees down isn't what's harming the environment; it's cutting the trees down to consume the SPACE that is harming the environment. Trees are a renewable resource that benefits us as they grow. The space that a natural forest consumes is non-renewable. Be friendly to the environment; don't produce, buy, or use any recycled product except aluminum. Which is recycled because it's MUCH cheaper that way, and better for the environment to boot. Except you won't see "recycled aluminum" as a product catchphrase, because it's the right thing to do in the first place from both a business and environmental perspective. It doesn't have to be pushed as a feel-good thing.

I simply had to comment about the posting here. This has to be the biggest load of crap I've read on this site (which has been generally good). How can anyone write that recycling is not environmentally friendly and be serious?

It works like this: The more we recycle, the less we have to take from the natural world, and therefore the more resources we have to keep intact and preserve for future generations and the wellbeing of our planet. This isn't rocket science. I think of recycling in the same way I think of capital - You use and reuse the capital in every possible way before you stick your hand in the savings jar. Same goes for our natural resources. While an environmentally harmful chemical process is used in recycling paper, that technology is evolving.

The common notions of reducing, reusing, and recycling are understandable to a child. Yeesh.

<B>Well, of course there's always going to be a sceptic to every solution.My process of recycling paper doesn't involve additional chemicals- outside of adding water and creating a pulp of the newspapers.
The product does quite well for building small buildings (as we've now got 2 of them standing at about 400sq.ft.
We're currently working on getting some analysis done on the product which will allow us to post what the actual RF factor is for insulation purposes. In the mean time, I'm looking in to different ways to have this formed and molded so as to take on John Hardy of Hardy-plank directly. times are a changin' for conventional building methods.