An Australian company,\u00a0Mineral Carbonation International (MCI), had announced an initiative last year with the aim to capture carbon emissions and store them in building materials.\u00a0The company,\u00a0specialising in\u00a0developing carbon utilisation technologies, has estimated\u00a09 million dollars over the next four years as the cost for the project. The\u00a0technology and research programme was launched at the end of August 2017 at\u00a0the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources.<\/p>\n
Mineral Carbonation International said, \u201cThis mimics but greatly speeds up the natural weathering by rainfall which produces common types of rocks over millions of years.\u00a0These carbonates and silica by-products have the potential to be used in building products such as concrete and plasterboard to create green construction materials.”<\/p>\n
The target for the company is to be able to produce\u00a020,000 to 50,000 tonnes of \u2018green\u2019 concrete for construction companies by 2020 as they hope that the product is\u00a0economically viable.<\/p>\n
Marcus Dawe, Chief Executive of MCI is pretty optimistic that the big firms and studios striving to make a difference would consider their product for their projects. Talking about this venture, he remarked that serpentinite which would be used to absorb the carbon dioxide, is a readily available material all over the world.<\/p>\n
Although the concerns revolve around the mining of the substance that might be of\u00a0environmental concerns, Dawe says, “Nowhere in the world had anyone scaled up enough to create enough material to give to manufacturers, to experiment and test them and find out what products they can make from them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Australian company,\u00a0Mineral Carbonation International (MCI), had announced an initiative last year with the aim to capture carbon emissions and store them in building materials.\u00a0The company,\u00a0specialising in\u00a0developing carbon utilisation technologies, has estimated\u00a09 million dollars over the next four years as the cost for the project. The\u00a0technology and research programme was launched at the end of … <\/p>\n