I didn’t get the technicalities, but, if it’s not just greenwashing, then every effort is welcome.
Still, the best energy is the one we don’t use and leaving nature as it is is way better than destroying it and finding some damage control.
I scimmed through the article and at least from my understanding it isn’t green washing if it works as described in the article. I do not know though what chemical reactions are at work here. Because his cement cures at room temperature and does not heat up in the process also it needs co2 to cure??
How interesting, I wonder how he did that… I think after I’m done watering the plants in my living room I’ll go check on the last things in the greenhouse and then the pumpkin patch…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas in 2019, wrecking 75 percent of homes on the worst hit island of Abaco and displacing thousands of people.
Soon after, he met California-based architect Sam Marshall, whose home had sustained damage in the 2018 Woolsey fire, one of the most destructive blazes in the state’s history.
Making cement produces a lot of climate pollution because it has to be heated to high temperatures in a kiln and because it triggers a chemical reaction that releases additional CO2 from limestone.
“It’s good that they’re making use of waste,” says Dwarak Ravikumar, an assistant professor at the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University.
Even so, Ravikumar says, “We need to conduct a robust analysis of this from a systems perspective to understand what is the overall climate impact.” It’s important for the company to share its data so that researchers can assess Partanna’s entire environmental footprint and how scalable its strategy is, he says.
It’s actually supposed to get stronger with exposure to seawater — an attractive trait to a country made up of many low-lying islands exposed to worsening storms and sea level rise.
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Black belt level bullshido!
IIRC regular concrete sucks CO2 out of atmosphere but that’s actually a harmful process to the durability of the concrete
