Maria Gallucci of Canary Media reports on Meta’s investment in a clean concrete startup.
The United States makes some 90 million metric tons of cement every year to bind together the nation’s concrete buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure. In the process, U.S. cement plants generate huge amounts of planet-warming emissions — equivalent to those from 16 million gas-powered cars.
Decarbonizing cement and concrete is necessary to deal with climate change, but it’s a complicated task. Doing so requires both using cleaner technology to run scorching-hot kilns and reconfiguring the long-standing chemistry of cement itself. The industry is searching for low-carbon solutions at the same time that it faces rising demand in general from the builders of data centers, warehouses, housing, and much more.
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