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'An Australia-based startup is touting a new concrete mixture that could be a
valuable weapon in the fight to reduce carbon pollution.
According to SmartCompany, Kapture, a climate tech startup from Melbourne, has
figured out how to sequester carbon dioxide pollution, one of the primary
causes behind the overheating of the planet, within its concrete.
CEO Raj Bagri explained that the technology can be retrofitted onto existing
diesel engines that power the mixing process and other aspects of concrete
creation. The byproduct of those captured emissions can be used to replace
Portland cement, one of the key ingredients of concrete, and another producer
of planet-warming pollution.
The process uses a proprietary solvent that Bagri declined to name, which
breaks down the carbon emissions — a process the company claims will offset
between 0.7 and 1.2 tons of carbon dioxide pollution for every ton of solvent
used, in addition to the carbon captured by the device itself.
"As a business, we're tackling emissions from true sources — diesel emissions —
and we're reducing concrete emissions, and there's no green premium," Bagri
said, "No one in the world has developed a product that can go into the
concrete-making process with no green premium."
The production of concrete is a massive source of planet-warming carbon
dioxide, accounting for 8% of global annual pollution, according to the
report.'
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
