A new Cornell University-led project aims to use carbon dioxide emissions and residue from aluminum recycling – a carbon-heavy process – to produce high value products.
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Concrete creates resilient floors, highway bridges and city sidewalks, but its usefulness comes at a cost: Concrete production causes more than 8% of carbon emissions, nearly four times as much as the aviation industry.Greeshma Gadikota, the Croll Se
Greeshma Gadikota, associate professor of engineering, has gathered a team to help capture carbon dioxide in the concrete-making process as they aim to create low-carbon construction materials from it.
Concrete is useful for making resilient floors, highway bridges, and city sidewalks, but it comes at a cost: Concrete production accounts for more than 8% of carbon emissions, about four times that of the aviation industry.