Over its lifetime, #cement already removes ~43% of the CO₂ from its production through carbonation (currently ~1 GtCO₂/yr). So if CO₂ is injected into cement during production (i.e., lower carbon cement), is that considered additional carbon removal? 🤔
“It’s really too bad, you know, we’re shooting missiles and rockets and whatnot at each other on this tiny little place we call home. It’s the only home in the universe for us humans. It’s too bad we don’t treat it a little better.” — Bill Anders
NOAA and DOE are two federal agencies that are funding our work on monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) at [C]Worthy. It’s great to see this coordination.
Elected leaders in Alameda, Calif., voted early on Wednesday to stop scientists from testing a device that might one day be used to artificially cool the planet, overruling city staff members who had found the experiment posed no danger. 🤨