{"id":268311,"date":"2010-02-01T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/novacem-calera-caron-capturing-concrete\/14039\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:54:00","slug":"calera-and-novacem-use-concrete-to-capture-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268311","title":{"rendered":"Calera and Novacem use concrete to capture CO2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/pictures\/hero\/concrete-1.jpg\" alt=\"Novacem Chairman Stuart Evans and Chief Scientist Nikolaos Vlasopoulous, with samples of t...\"><\/p>\n<p>Concrete seems pretty inoffensive. It just looks like mud, and appears to do nothing except sit there and harden. The fact is, though, concrete is the world&#8217;s third-largest source of man-made carbon dioxide. Its production process accounts for at least 5% of the CO2 our species pumps into the atmosphere annually. Apparently, however, it doesn&#8217;t have to be that way. 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It just looks like mud, and appears to do nothing except sit there and harden. The fact is, though, concrete is the world&#8217;s third-largest source of man-made carbon dioxide. Its production process accounts for at least 5% of the CO2 our species pumps into the atmosphere annually. 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