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Although the benefits of using straw bales are many, straw is not actually a magical material. This cheap and abundant cellulose fiber just happens to get packaged into conveniently sized rigid bundles that are suitable for building.When the mystique of building with bales has been stripped away, the truth is that straw bales simply allow for the creation of very thick walls without consuming the quantity of resources that would be needed to make equally thick walls of wood, fiberglass, or other materials.Any conventional building method, if used to build walls of the same thickness as a bale wall, would provide similar levels of performance, but at a much greater financial and environmental cost. Bales work — cheaply and sustainably!