Making cement from a different type of rock could clean up emissions

Cement production alone currently accounts for about 8 percent of global CO 2 emissions, so considerable effort is going into ...
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Simple New Process Stores CO2 in Concrete without Compromising Strength

High CO2 emissions from the cement and concrete industries can be dangerous to the environment. The method offers a way to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from the cement and concrete industries, ...
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Basalt-powered cement process could slash energy use and CO2 emissions by 80%

Scientists are proposing a new way to make cement by replacing limestone with volcanic ...
University of California

Basalt could be the key to greener and cheaper cement

Producing cement from silicate rocks rather than limestone could lower both energy requirements and carbon dioxide emissions, ...
Business Wire

Sublime Systems Secures $40 Million Series A to Electrify and Scale Decarbonized Cement Production

SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sublime Systems, a developer of technology to produce decarbonized cement, today announced that it has closed a $40 million Series A funding round, led by ...
New Scientist

Zero-carbon cement process could slash emissions from construction

A new technique can produce cement using waste from demolished buildings, which researchers say could save billions of tonnes of carbon by 2050. “We have definitely proved that cement can be recycled ...
The Michigan Daily

UMich study uses electrochemical process to create sustainable cement

Researchers from the University of Michigan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Northwestern University and the California Institute of Technology recently developed a new cement manufacturing ...
WRAL

Steel and cement manufacturing produce eight times more emissions than aviation

Cement manufacturing and steel production account for roughly 16% of global greenhouse gas emissions, while aviation accounts for about 2% of worldwide C02 emissions, according to estimates by several ...
Business Wire

Queens Carbon Secures $10M Seed Round to Propel U.S. Leadership in Low-Carbon Cement Manufacturing

PINE BROOK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Queens Carbon, a developer of next-generation cement technology, announced it has secured $10 million in seed funding to scale its platform for energy-efficient ...