{"id":641197,"date":"2019-12-19T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641197"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:50:01","slug":"a-concrete-step-toward-net-zero-carbon-emissions-in-cement-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641197","title":{"rendered":"A concrete step toward net-zero carbon emissions in cement production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the most widely used construction material, concrete is indispensable in the development of infrastructure, industry and housing. It&#8217;s a mixture of aggregates (sand, gravel, crushed stone), water and cement, and whose production accounts for 95 % of concrete&#8217;s CO2 footprint. &#8220;Currently, the EU uses more than two tonnes of concrete per person per year, of which 325 kg is cement,&#8221; according to the 2019 report &#8220;Industrial Transformation 2050\u2014Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions from EU Heavy Industry&#8221; by Material Economics. &#8220;For every kilogram of cement that is produced, 0.7 kg of CO2 is released into the air.&#8221;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-12-concrete-net-zero-carbon-emissions-cement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">A concrete step toward net-zero carbon emissions in cement production<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the most widely used construction material, concrete is indispensable in the development of infrastructure, industry and housing. It&#8217;s a mixture of aggregates (sand, gravel, crushed stone), water and cement,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}