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industrial decarbonisation


Aug 28, 2026

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Cement's Carbon Problem Gets Easier If You Never Let Air In

Concrete is the most used material on Earth after water, and making it releases carbon dioxide twice, once from the fuel and once from the limestone itself. No amount of clean electricity fixes the second one. A plant in Germany changed the order of operations instead, and the result is a waste stream concentrated enough to be worth something. Here is how it works, and the number nobody has published.

Cement's Carbon Problem Gets Easier If You Never Let Air In
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