Cement from CO2: A Concrete Cure for Global Warming?
A new technique could turn cement from a source of climate changing greenhouse gases into a way to remove them from the air
CLIMATE CHANGE CURE?: By running the flue gas from Moss Landing's mammoth smokestacks through ocean water, a new company can make cement from carbon dioxide pollution.
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The turbines at Moss Landing power plant on the California coast burn through natural gas to pump out more than 1,000 megawatts of electric power. The 700-degree Fahrenheit (370-degree Celsius) fumes left over contain at least 30,000 parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO2)—the primary greenhouse gas responsible for global warming—along with other pollutants.
Today, this flue gas wafts up and out of the power plant's enormous smokestacks, but by simply bubbling it through the nearby seawater, a new California-based company called Calera says it can use more than 90 percent of that CO2 to make something useful: cement.
Today, this flue gas wafts up and out of the power plant's enormous smokestacks, but by simply bubbling it through the nearby seawater, a new California-based company called Calera says it can use more than 90 percent of that CO2 to make something useful: cement.
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