ChatGPT & DALL-E generated panoramic image of a hybrid concrete and mass timber building under construction.
Cement has reared its gray and flaking head into my attention again recently. The global use of about 4.1 billion tons of the stuff to make perhaps 40 billion tons of concrete is responsible for around 10% of all carbon dioxide emissions globally. It’s one of the few industrial products … [continued]
ChatGPT & DALL-E generated panoramic image of an electrolysis cement plant of the future, powered by wind turbines
One thread I’m pulling on across industrial solutions is the ability of electrochemical processes powered by green electricity to replace industrial processes powered by fossil fuels. Today someone handed me the end of a thread leading to Sublime Systems, a Massachusetts, USA, firm that’s using electrochemistry to make low-carbon cement. … [continued]
The first commercial use of concrete made with low carbon cement from Sublime Systems has happened in Boston.
Cement and concrete decarbonization are elements of $6 billion in grants that the US Department of Energy announced this week. In total, 33 projects across more than 20 states will help accelerate the commercial scale demonstration of emerging industrial decarbonization technologies. Portland Cement describes the process for creating cement as … [continued]
Captured carbon can yield carbon nanofibers and green hydrogen, too, which could be a better solution than simply pushing it underground.
This article focuses on the 2023 findings of the annual State of Climate Action report series. View past articles here: 2022 | 2021 | 2020. Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an … [continued]
Cement is one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions worldwide. Companies like Holcim and Sublime are changing that.
The US Department of Energy bets $2 million on a new carbon capture strategy that transforms ordinary buildings into CO2-devouring demons.
Sublime Systems has received certification that its alternative to ordinary Portland cement performs as well as traditional cement.
Terra CO2 is building its first low carbon concrete factory in Texas where demand is the highest in the United States.
