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New Bio-Inspired “Super Bricks” Sucks Up Carbon

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This early-stage carbon-negative building material offers a long-term prospect for developers and large consumers to significantly reduce the embodied carbon footprint of future infrastructure projects.

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  • A new 'bio-inspired' carbon-negative concrete replacement, dubbed 'Super Bricks,' is in laboratory development at Worcester Polytechnic University.
  • This early-stage technology aims to provide a building material that actively removes carbon from the atmosphere.
  • While not immediately market-ready, it represents a potential future solution for significantly reducing embodied carbon in new construction for developers and large power consumers.

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A new, bio-inspired carbon negative replacement for concrete is working its way through the laboratory at Worcester Polytechnic University in Massachusetts. The post New Bio-Inspired “Super Bricks” Sucks Up Carbon appeared first on CleanTechnica .