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It would seem to me that we simply need to make buildings (and other materials) out of other resources. Whether they are expensive or only effective in certain
by quaquaqua1 7y ago
It would seem to me that we simply need to make buildings (and other materials) out of other resources.
Whether they are expensive or only effective in certain situations is for the purchaser to decide.
One man's bamboo is another man's carbon fiber, I suoppose.
- ip26 7y agoWouldn't it be handy if you could make granules of "sand" out of carbon, perhaps captured from the air...
- adamzk 7y agoExcept sand is silicon not carbon
- 0815test 7y agoIt's even better than that. You can grind metal oxides that form a sizeable fraction of Earth's crust and are relatively easy to extract into a sort of "dust" or "sand" that will actively sequester carbon out of the air, with no further energy input needed. Not silicon-based rock, though,
- thechao 7y agoAn olivine-process concrete would be the holy grail: net-carbon negative concrete.