Innovation grants awarded to four concrete production projects that will suck carbon from the atmosphere
Coalition of local governments aims to spur carbon dioxide removal efforts, fight climate crisis through this fundingRead more
Video: Don’t Mine Cement. Grow It.
Learn how Minus Materials algae-grown limestone performs the same as quarried limestone and meets essential standards, but without the carbon penalties. The same – but better!Read more
Cleaner construction with carbon-negative algae-grown limestone
Minus Materials, a start-up, is commercializing algae-grown, carbon-negative limestone.Read more
Podcast: Growing concrete with algae
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How scientists hope to use algae-grown limestone to build cities
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded the CU Boulder engineers and their colleagues at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Algal Resources Collection at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) $3.2 million for their creative work. The ...
Sci Tech Daily
July 19, 2022
Cities of the future may be built with algae-grown limestone
Global cement production accounts for 7% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in large part through the burning of quarried limestone. Now, a CU Boulder-led research team has figured out a way to make cement production carbon neutral—and even carbon negative—by pulling carbon dioxide out of the air with the help of microalgae.
CU Boulder Today
June 23, 2022
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