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Graphene Makes Concrete Stronger While Reducing Carbon Emissions
Clean Techica ^
| April 30, 2010
| Steve Hanley
Posted on 04/30/2018 3:58:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Cool, good for TRUMP's Border Wall!!
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:01:19 PM PDT
by
KavMan
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What can we do about BS emissions?
Carbon is not a pollutant.
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:06:06 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; upchuck
They are finding amazing uses for graphene. Now to find a feasible way of manufacturing graphene in the first place.
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:07:42 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Yet perhaps more importantly, by including graphene we can reduce the amount of materials required to make concrete by around 50 per cent — leading to a significant reduction of 446 kilograms per ton of the carbon emissions.”
ROFLMAO. Key quote: “...446 kilograms per ton...”
The professor said that.
I don’t care how smart she is in finding innovative uses for a substance still not being fully-utilized for its benefits: She’s awfully dumb.
That, or clearly even the educated among us have extreme difficulty in transferring to the metric system.
“Educated” being a word used quite loosely when referring to a person bound to the climate change religion...
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:12:26 PM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They lost me on the first line. Volcanoes and cow farts vastly eclipse carbon emissions from human activity.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Finding greener ways to build is a crucial step forward in reducing carbon emissions" The most honest measure of greenness is the price. If it costs more, more energy is being consumed somewhere. If graphene infused concrete is really greener it will be cheaper. If not, it's a simple matter to track down where the extra carbon emissions are coming from: just follow the money.
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:21:04 PM PDT
by
Reeses
(A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:28:57 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yea gota reduce that 0.04% CO2 in the atmosphere
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:30:50 PM PDT
by
Jayster
To: 2ndDivisionVet
You know I don’t give a CRAP about carbon emissions!, But if it makes concrete better, stronger, and cheaper? I’m on board!
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:39:26 PM PDT
by
painter
( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Now to find a feasible way of manufacturing graphene in the first place.I thought it was generated from the forehead of Zeus. That's why it will replace almost everything, while doing a better job.
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:44:10 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Graphene is nothing more than a researchers way of acquiring more funds to chase said pipe dream.
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:55:50 PM PDT
by
Spacetrucker
(George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
To: logi_cal869
It was not smart to mix 'tons' and 'kg'. Probably the doing of a journalist.
Anyway, I think she is saying that emission of 2000 pounds (or 2200 pounds if it's a metric ton) of CO2 today would be reduced by 446 kilograms (about 200 pounds less CO2).
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posted on
04/30/2018 4:58:16 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Kill: google,TWITTER,FACEBOOK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
To: Reeses
If you can make the process more efficient and produce a product of at least equal quality, I say go for it!
To: Missouri gal
I’d read many years ago that the one animal that emits more CO2 than all others combined was the termite. Something about how there was so many of them and the way they digested plant material.
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posted on
04/30/2018 5:01:50 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.)
To: Right Wing Assault
Better rethink that one...446 kilos is almost 1000 lbs.
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posted on
04/30/2018 5:12:21 PM PDT
by
Fireone
(Hillary=Herpes....she just keeps showing up.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Graphene, the next "flying car", right-around-the-corner.
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posted on
04/30/2018 5:12:54 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s Soot! Chimney Sweep strikes it rich at last!
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posted on
04/30/2018 5:14:42 PM PDT
by
Doctor DNA
(This is not your grandfather's internet.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Or just mix in fly ash instead. Readily available and really cheap.
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posted on
04/30/2018 5:19:40 PM PDT
by
rednesss
(fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have this suspicion that graphene is going to be the next asbestos.
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posted on
04/30/2018 5:33:03 PM PDT
by
Trod Upon
(Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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