Posted on 06/29/2018 12:23:17 PM PDT by rktman
Earlier this year, Sara Law of the Carbon Disclosure Project raised her hand at a conference in New York on government and private sector initiatives to address climate change. She politely asked the panel, which had been assembled to discuss opportunities for investing in low-carbon infrastructure, whether they knew how much cement each project might require. The panel members shifted uncomfortably in their seats and chuckled; no one jumped in immediately to respond.
The problem is that many of these projects require concrete. A lot of concrete. This worries Law and her colleagues at the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit that tracks industrial greenhouse-gas emissions and promotes proper carbon disclosure. The CDP recently released a report, “Building Pressure: Which cement companies will be left behind in the low-carbon transition,” warning the cement industry — cement being the main binder in concrete — that “in its current form, it will not be compatible with” any nation’s commitment in the Paris agreement; and if radical changes do not occur the world will “risk missing [its] climate goals.”
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A key ingredient in concrete is Fly Ash which is a byproduct from burning coal in coal fired power plants. The concrete industry has yet to find a suitable replacement for it.
No, no, NO!!! Let's do it like the Masai, and build our buildings with manure.
Would that not mean that using fly ash is in fact building with recycled materials?
Yep, but good luck getting any credit for using it as such...
Of all the things that require permits, why are these types of organizations able to grow up out of nowhere and control aspects of industry like this?
Isn’t this a pseudo government type of effort. Who licenses them?
If there is a licensing process, someone needs to yank these people’s license.
This is total B.S., and it’s is very destructive.
“Let’s just build stuff with wood, hay, stubble, mud bricks and corrugated steel.”
It is racist to resist the government from deliberately impoverishing you. The national health insurance has for loved the British to pull their own teeth because the queue for dentists is so long.
I cordially invite the idiot to come up with a better binding agent.
Uh, mud huts. I hear they’re awesome.
From what I understand, the Noble Gasses feel slighted.
This shows the complete and utter lack of critical thinking that befalls anyone who writes about climate change. Did this writer turn off his or her brain completely before typing that last sentence?
If cement accounts for 1/3 of all carbon emissions and it's less than steel, then that means that cement and steel alone account for at least 2/3 of all emissions, which would mean that everything else in the whole world put together (oil, coal, natural gas ... all energy) would be less than 1/3rd. OR the author thinks that all the various sources of carbon emissions add up to some number much greater than 100%.
Well they do look down on lesser gasses.
Major error in you post. You assumed there was brain activity involved.
I am perfectly fine with all these leftist lemmings living in mud holes in the ground, wearing leaves and having no electronics.
Why would the industry seek to replace the replacement? Fly ash is a partial replacement for Portland cement. If fly ash isn’t used then the concrete is made with Portland cement only.
I wonder how many years of the stuff are sitting in the fly ash ponds surrounding all the old coal power plants?
Yurts are easily transported from one area to another, after trash, leavenings, etc., that liberals are infamous for, piles to high to live amongst.
A positive is there is no concrete involved.
Because of the coming shortage of fly ash due to the reduction of coal plants in the U.S.
Well, there is that.
They have no grasp at all on just how insignificant are we, and how vast and durable life and the planet are. They are profoundly ignorant while believing themselves to be superior in every respect to you and me. A section of Amazon or Central African jungle should be set aside and fenced off, and they should be dropped into it so they can truly experience the transcendental joys of raw nature. And then the rest of us can get on with our lives without their annoying prattle.
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