cm0002@lemdro.id to Technology@midwest.socialEnglish · 17 days agoChina built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concreteboingboing.netexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
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minus-squarewyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoOh, perfect, concrete is the greenest of green! What genius! We’re saved! /s 😶🤮 The cement industry alone accounts for roughly 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions—emitting more than the aviation and global shipping industries combined.
minus-squarewander1236@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days ago Surplus wind power hoists 35-ton blocks cast from recycled concrete and industrial aggregate toward the top.
minus-squareJillyB@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoThe site says the blocks are made from recycled concrete
minus-squarewyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoThat’s supposed to be a finite resource, not a poster child for why more is “necessary”. ☝🏼
Oh, perfect, concrete is the greenest of green! What genius! We’re saved! /s 😶🤮
The site says the blocks are made from recycled concrete
That’s supposed to be a finite resource, not a poster child for why more is “necessary”. ☝🏼