Climate tech startups team up to decarbonize Arizona cement plant
Reading Time: < 1 minutesLocal governments in the southwestern U.S. are putting up $150,000 to back what they say is a pioneering effort to ‘turn air into concrete at scale.’ The funds will help cover the cost of the ‘reference project,’ a collaboration between two climate tech startups and a masonry firm in Flagstaff, Arizona.
The firms expect construction to kick off later this year, when the two startups install their tech within Block-Lite‘s existing facility. It’ll work like this: Aircapture will suck carbon out of the air, and CarbonBuilt will retrofit Block-Lite’s curing chamber so the firm can use the CO2 to cure a lower-carbon recipe for concrete. CarbonBuilt’s recipe uses less cement and integrates industrial waste that ‘would otherwise be diverted to landfills,’ such as fly ash, the startup said.
‘In essence, we’re working with Aircapture to take CO2 gas from our atmosphere and then we turn it into a rock for permanent storage,’ CarbonBuilt said in a statement.
Efforts to reduce concrete’s environmental toll are a crucial part of decarbonization. Concrete producers on the whole are responsible for roughly 7% of industrial carbon emissions, the International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental group, estimated in 2018.
Ref: techcrunch
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