no we can make it from the air. I hear there's an article that explains how a company can make concrete from CO2

Which if you’re going to pull from a smokestack I feel it be way more economical to turn that into graphene

We literally need over a million of these to put a dent in the need that we currently have for CO2 capture.

That sandwich shop serves fire sandwiches

If looking at this as purely a way to store CO2 from the atmosphere, trees are a going to be much simpler and cheaper

Do you really think we can replace concrete with timber in all construction?

He quit gherkin

If theyre critically endangered and if they fair well at the zoo i hope they stay there so their populations go up

500 tons of CO2 a year that this plant captures is equivalent to one coast-to-coast return flight of a 250-passenger plane. If this tech was adopted for all the world's concrete, it could do 1.1 million times this, and that would cancel about half of aviation CO2.

Time for all the trolls to start hating.

Agreed this sounds like at best a drup on a hot plate.

This process sounds less energy intensive than DACCS. But it’s not a good sign that they refuse to disclose energy usage. Unless it’s hugely less than for DACCS, won’t deploying it at scale before we have surplus clean power just delay net zero?

I’d side with you on this one. I wouldn’t consider it a celebration of “the power of representation,” at least from the picture the doll itself. It looks normal with a cheap plastic brace. My dad had a full on upper body metal brace when he was younger, and his spine fused with a metal rod.

This shit is getting ridiculous.

r/nottheonion ?

Once it is trapped in the concrete would it be released again if the concrete ages? Essentially this is just prolonging the inevitable again.

They aim to reduce the carbon cost of concrete production by 70%. It’s a baby step, but at least it is something!

Is that net reduction? I thought concrete was extremely polluting to manufacture

Sounds like it threw us on a curve.

It’s totally okay to want representation that actually represents your experience. Hugs dude ❤️

Do they know trees need it?

It's absolutely a bad approach.

We already have a method of installing CO2 extracting plants that have:

1. A higher yield in building materials
2. Produce building material with higher carbon storage capacity
3. Can pull CO2 out of the air without supplying any power
4. Require no construction to install

These incredible high efficiency CO2 extracting plants are called trees. Every penny they spent on this plant would have been more productively spent on literal plants.

We have mycelium for this purpose…

Sometimes hard to see the good side of things when you've constantly been dealt a shitty hand. I hope there's progress with improving your quality of life because that sounds rough af - I couldn't imagine having to deal with it myself.

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