{"id":2067,"date":"2016-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-807\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:41:41","slug":"innovation-anthology-807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/09\/15\/innovation-anthology-807\/","title":{"rendered":"#807: CCEMC Grand Challenge: Blue Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The White Cliffs of Dover represent millions of years of carbon sequestration in the form of limestone.<\/p>\n

Dr. Brent Constanz and his company Blue Planet of California have figured out a way to mimic and speed up that process. <\/p>\n

Now he makes his own limestone rock to manufacture concrete and cement. <\/p>\n

This is one of the CO2 conversion projects funded by the  Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation’s Grand Challenge.

DR BRENT CONSTANZ:  <\/span> By making the rock from carbon dioxide that would have gone into the atmosphere, the concrete which normally has a carbon footprint of about 600 pounds per cubic yard, actually has a carbon footprint of about negative 1000 pounds per cubic yard.  So instead of the concrete being the major aspect of the carbon footprint of a new building or structure, it has if you will a carbon bank account.  So this is really going to change the way architects look at the environmental performance of buildings.  Now the focus is shifting a little bit more toward the embodied energy in the building materials themselves
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Dr. Brent Constanz says Blue Planet is already working with two companies in Alberta to reduce their CO2 emissions.  
 
Thanks today to the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation.
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Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-09-15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blue Planet is using its CCEMC Grand Challenge funding to commercialize its technology to create limestone from CO2<\/span> emissions for manufacturing concrete (Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,9,43,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change-and-emissions-management-corporation","category-environment","category-international","category-oil-sands","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}