#807: CCEMC Grand Challenge: Blue Planet
The White Cliffs of Dover represent millions of years of carbon sequestration in the form of limestone.
Dr. Brent Constanz and his company Blue Planet of California have figured out a way to mimic and speed up that process.
Now he makes his own limestone rock to manufacture concrete and cement.
This is one of the CO2 conversion projects funded by the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation’s Grand Challenge.
DR BRENT CONSTANZ: By making the rock from carbon dioxide that would have gone into the atmosphere, the concrete which normally has a carbon footprint of about 600 pounds per cubic yard, actually has a carbon footprint of about negative 1000 pounds per cubic yard. So instead of the concrete being the major aspect of the carbon footprint of a new building or structure, it has if you will a carbon bank account. So this is really going to change the way architects look at the environmental performance of buildings. Now the focus is shifting a little bit more toward the embodied energy in the building materials themselves
Dr. Brent Constanz says Blue Planet is already working with two companies in Alberta to reduce their CO2 emissions.
Thanks today to the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation.
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Program Date: 2016-09-15