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phreeza
on June 29, 2021
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Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine...
The majority of the CO2 emissions from concrete come from the production chemical reaction, not from the heat generation, though.
XorNot
on June 29, 2021
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Wikipedia [1] suggests 50% is from calcination and 40% from burning fuel. There's plenty of room for reductions on the fuel side.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concre...
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