The quest to create carbon-negative concrete

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New technologies from Canadian companies CarbonCure and CarbiCrete are part of an XPRIZE focused on beneficial uses of carbon dioxide

Some sources of carbon dioxide emissions are set in stone, somewhat literally. Consider that the process of creating concrete accounts for an estimated five per cent of human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2)...

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