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yawaworht-a-sti-sey t1_jdfgtri wrote

Reply to comment by Itsumishi in An Arizona plant will pull CO2 from the air and trap it in concrete by captainquirk

I think you overestimate how expensive low-carbon concrete is and how much carbon it actually takes to make.

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Itsumishi t1_jdfjx2p wrote

I'll assume you meant "underestimate" regarding the expense, and on that I'd just say new technologies are always expensive. The point of pilots projects etc will be to find methods which can be made cost-effective.

On the "how much carbon it actually takes to make" comment... well its not low-carbon if it takes lots of carbon - so that doesn't make any sense.

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yawaworht-a-sti-sey t1_jdgsohi wrote

I meant overestimate how much carbon it removes and underestimate how much it costs to remove carbon from the air.

And its not a new technology that can be improved with iteration - CO2 always takes energy to remove and its other ingredients always take energy to create.

Until we get essentially carbon free and cheap energy there's no excuse to waste it on low carbon concrete when we can use those resources more efficiently elsewhere.

If you're going to waste energy on physically removin CO2 from the air then you're best bet is giving China and India free solar panels rather than using solar panels to remove CO2 to put in concrete

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