{"id":23534,"date":"2016-03-15T06:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/researchers-turn-carbon-dioxide-into-sustainable-concrete"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:45:50","slug":"researchers-turn-carbon-dioxide-into-sustainable-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/researchers-turn-carbon-dioxide-into-sustainable-concrete","title":{"rendered":"Researchers turn carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/157380738\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world with little or no concrete. Would that even be possible? After all, concrete is everywhere\u2014on our roads, our driveways, in our homes, bridges and buildings. For the past 200 years, it\u2019s been the very foundation of much of our planet.<\/p>\n<p>But the production of cement, which when mixed with water forms the binding agent in concrete, is also one of the biggest contributors to <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/greenhouse+gas+emissions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>. In fact, about 5 percent of the planet\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions comes from concrete.<\/p>\n<p>An even larger source of <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+dioxide+emissions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon dioxide emissions<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/flue+gas\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">flue gas<\/a> emitted from smokestacks at <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/power+plants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power plants<\/a> around the world. Carbon emissions from those plants are the largest source of harmful global greenhouse gas in the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-03-carbon-dioxide-sustainable-concrete.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;03-carbon-dioxide-sustainable-concrete.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world with little or no concrete. Would that even be possible? After all, concrete is everywhere\u2014on our roads, our driveways, in our homes, bridges and buildings. For the past 200 years, it\u2019s been the very foundation of much of our planet. But the production of cement, which when mixed with water forms the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43106,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534\/revisions\/43106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}