For more on this, see Simon Pirani's article from Feb on
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peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/p...
My pamphlet from last year:
“Remaking Home Heating in the UK”
Relevant for the heatwave too…
* Concrete Destruction: Costs and Damages of the Concrete and Cement Industry and the Future of Construction *
By me, @urbanusnils.bsky.social, @conradkunze.bsky.social, Paulina Orozco & @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social
Read the full study here: www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rl...
> Environmental & social impacts of cement & concrete
> History of these materials
> Cement industry's bogus climate strategy
> Alternatives to concrete-intensive construction
> Political levers
Thanks to @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
Preface by @ulrichbrand.bsky.social & Stefan Thimmel
JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited.
How wrong I was.
Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this.
Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up.
janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...
Denn die Grundlage für den Baustoff ist Kalkstein, der mainly aus den Überresten von Korallen & anderen Lebewesen über Jahrmillionen entstanden ist, ein fossiles Material.
Dementsprechend ist darin CO2 gespeichert: im Zementwerk geht pro Tonne Kalkstein direkt eine halbe Tonne CO2 in die Luft.
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