#cement — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/africa/194044/ Nigeria bans imports of cement, fertiliser & 15 other goods #cement #DomesticIndustry #ECOWAS #FederalGovernment #FiscalPolicy #ImportBan #ImportProhibitionList #Nigeria #NigeriaEconomy #TradePolicy #WaleEdun

Cement maker Alpacem developing Slovenia’s biggest solar plant

Austrian-owned cement producer Alpacem Cement and Slovenian photovoltaic solutions provider Enertron are developing a solar power project with…
#Slovenia #SI #Europe #Europa #EU #batteryenergystorage #BatteryEnergyStorageSystems #BESS #cement #decarbonization #Novice #prosumers #rooftopsolar #slovenia #Slovenija #solarpanels #solarpowerplant #solarpowerplants
https://www.europesays.com/2852512/

Cement maker Alpacem developing Slovenia’s biggest solar plant https://www.byteseu.com/1876608/ #BatteryEnergyStorage #BatteryEnergyStorageSystems #BESS #cement #prosumers #RooftopSolar #Slovenia #SolarPanels #SolarPowerPlant #SolarPowerPlants

Taking care of the vegetable garden and plastering the base of the kitchen countertop. https://www.allforgardening.com/1597953/taking-care-of-the-vegetable-garden-and-plastering-the-base-of-the-kitchen-countertop/ ##hoangthibinh ##peacefullife #building #buildingfarm #Cement #countertop #garden #HoangThiBinh #kitchen #LưuLinh #LưuLinhBuildingNewLife #LýLưuLinh #LýThịCa #lythica #make #plastering #TakingCareOfTheVegetableGardenAndPlasteringTheBaseOfTheKitchenCountertop. #takingcare #VegetableGardening #vegetables

The World Is Studded With Artificial Mountains
They’re fake, but they can be spectacular (and hazardous).
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/artificial-mountains-slag-heaps-concrete <-- shared article
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[As I was reading this article I was thinking about Rome’s Monte Testaccio, an “artificial mound[s] in Rome composed almost entirely of testae, fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all discarded amphorae [mainly for imported olive oil] dating from the time of the Roman Empire…”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio]
#topography #artificalgeography #fakemountains #spoilheap #slag #slagheap #AncientRome #industry #landscape #manmade #mountains #manufacturing #construction #mining #cement #steel #history #concrete #clinker #repurposing #geology #environment #water #reclaimed #global
@atlas Obscura

Can a cement plant turn its flue gas into rock?

Holcim + 44.01 are piloting 5 t/day of CO₂ capture and mineralisation in Fujairah, plugging cement into peridotite rock beneath the UAE. Tiny tonnage, big implications for a 7–8% slice of global emissions.

🔗 https://climatetech.industryexaminer.com/holcim-4401-fujairah-cement-co2-mineralisation/

#ClimateTech #Cement #CarbonRemoval #CCUS #TechNews #CarbonTech

#Wikipedia - #Chile

"The Chilean port of #Quintero and adjacent #Puchuncaví have been pointed out as a #SacrificeZone. The zone hosts the #coal-fired #Ventanas Power Plant, an #OilRefinery, a #cement storage, #FundiciónVentanas, a #CopperSmelter and refinery, a lubricant factory and a chemical terminal. In total 15 polluting companies operate in the area. In 2011, #EscuelaLaGreda located in #Puchuncaví, was engulfed in a #ChemicalCloud from the #VentanasIndustrialComplex. The #SulfurCloud poisoned an estimated 33 children and 9 teachers, resulting in the relocation of the school. The old location of the school is now abandoned. In August and September 2018 there was a public health crisis in Quintero and Puchuncaví, where over 300 people experienced illness from toxic substances in the air, coming from the polluting industries."

Related article from 2023: Chile closes state copper smelter that polluted bay for decades

https://apnews.com/article/ventanas-copper-chile-pollution-quintero-8a53aa725a7110f34a57e17481573a51

#SacrificeZones #SEZs #HumanRights #HumanRightsFreeZone #Pollution #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalRacism #EconomicSacrificZones #AirIsLife #Industries #IndustrialUse #PollutionSacrificeZones
#GlobalSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism

Could we have cracked one of the world's toughest climate problems?

It is almost impossible to make cement without emissions, but carbon-capture-and-storage technology is finally being deployed to decarbonise the sector.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250924-could-we-have-cracked-one-of-the-worlds-toughest-climate-problems?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#CarbonCapture #Cement #Netzero #Decarbonise #Decarbonisation #CO2 #Engineering #Tech #UK #Wales #Germany #Science

⚡ Living cement: Scientists turn bacteria-infused cement into energy-storing supercapacitors

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-cement-scientists-bacteria-infused-energy.html

#energy #storage #bacteria #microbes #biotechnology #electronics #supercapacitors #biotech #material #cement

Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy storage

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00409-6

#HackerNews #Living #microbial #cement #supercapacitors #energy #storage #sustainable #tech #green #innovation

Study Directly Links Emissions from #FossilFuel Producers to Devastating #Heatwaves

The findings could have legal implications for oil, gas, and cement producers, experts said.

By Ellyn Lapointe Published September 11, 2025

"A new study directly links hundreds of major heatwaves since 2000 to the emissions from fossil fuel and cement producers. Among its fundings, the researchers conclude that as many as a quarter of all heatwaves since the start of this century would have been 'virtually impossible' without emissions from any of the world’s 14 largest fossil fuel and #cement producers.

"The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, shows that greenhouse gas emissions from 180 of the world’s biggest cement, oil, and gas producers have significantly contributed to climate change over the last two decades.

"They linked the emissions to 213 heatwaves, finding the pollution made the #ExtremeHeat more likely and intense. Of those 213 events, 53 were made 10,000 times more likely as a result of the emissions, according to the researchers."

Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/study-directly-links-emissions-fossil-fuel-producers-devastating-heatwaves-2000657564?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew #BigCement #OilAndGas #FossillFuels #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #GlobalWarming

Freightliner and Breedon cement new deal http://dlvr.it/TLgyzx #aggregates #Breedon #Cement #Freightliner

Freightliner and Breedon cement new deal http://dlvr.it/TLgyxd #aggregates #Breedon #Cement #Freightliner

Today in BoneQuest History for June 11th 2019 "THE OFFICIAL POSITION" https://bonequest.com/7387 #bonequest :pants: :spigot: #cement #chernobyl #dong #pants_spigot #single_panel #spigot

Learned today:
Cement -making, which involves high heat, incurs 9% of the annual global CO2 emissions.
Roman #cement endured 2000 years, and counting.
"Ours" lasts merely 50-150 years.
Why is that?
Ours crumbles because little fissures are widened by rain water.
The Roman mix contains lotsa tiny calcium lumps. When fissures occur and rain enters them, it dissolves the calcium crumbs and this "dough" smears across the gaps. Case closed.

Heard in a curious podcast episode by a Noam Hassenfeld.

Also learned: when scientists drilled for sediment cores in 2022/2023 around Santorini and the submarine #volcano , the drill got stuck often, and 3 times, they had to use explosives to get it free. One reason: a Roman cement structure on the sea floor !
Thomas Ronge, cli-sci on this #IODP expedition, posted it yesterday on Bluesky.

The news cycle's dizzying. So something like this is helpful, even if I can't digest it all at once. The speed at which Our Putin is moving is shocking, but the Dems rolling over is devastating. NPR gives us in bullet points, day by day, this week's achievements in fascism.
#we #elected #our #Putin #stuck w #him #now #SCOTUS #crowned him #king #Democracy #dying #oligarchy #win #MuskWasNotElected #President #USA #dictator #WhiteHouse #cement #rose #garden #news #cycle https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5304445/trump-week-doge-ukraine-eric-adams-new-york

Global CO2 emissions will reach new high in 2024 despite slower growth

#CarbonDioxide (#CO2) #emissions from #FossilFuels and #cement will rise around 0.8% in 2024, reaching a record

> 37.4bn tonnes

of CO2 (GtCO2), according to the 2024 #GlobalCarbonBudget report by the Global Carbon Project.
This is 0.4GtCO2 higher than the previous record, set in 2023.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-will-reach-new-high-in-2024-despite-slower-growth/

#ClimateCatastrophe

'Reckless Conduct' of #BigOil Caused #HurricaneMilton—And Now They Should Pay

"The failure by our political class to deal with this completely solvable issue is staggering and shameful," wrote one journalist.

Julia Conley
Oct 09, 2024

[...] "As Nathan J. Robinson wrote in Current Affairs, climate scientists and meteorologists have unequivocally told oil companies and policymakers that #FossilFuel extraction is causing planetary heating, which has led to higher temperatures in oceans and bodies of water including the Gulf of Mexico, where the rapidly strengthening hurricane formed.

"But despite the knowledge that fossil fuel giants like #ExxonMobil and #Shell had decades ago that drilling for oil and gas would cause '#ViolentWeather' and 'potentially #catastrophic events,' the industry's profits have only grown as the U.S. has continued to subsidize their #pollution-causing activities.

"'The failure by our political class to deal with this completely solvable issue is staggering and shameful,' wrote Robinson. 'Many of them have children and grandchildren. Presumably they would like their descendants to inherit a world worth living in. And they could make that happen. Unfortunately, it would require challenging the power and profits of some of America's most influential corporations.'

"In the Substack newsletter Heated, Arielle Samuelson explained on Wednesday how fossil fuel extraction and planetary heating 'mutated' Hurricane Milton, which stunned weather experts this week as its wind speeds grew at a record-breaking pace, from 60 miles per hour to 180 miles per hour in just 36 hours.

"It was the second time in recent weeks that a hurricane in the region has intensified quickly; areas that are expected to take a direct hit from Milton are still overwhelmed by the destruction left by Hurricane Helene.

"Hot temperatures in the planets' oceans and gulfs fuels hurricanes, and as Samuelson noted, scientists say the 'extremely hot' Gulf of Mexico 'was made far more likely by heat-trapping pollutants from the fossil fuel, #agriculture, #chemical, and #cement industries.'"

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-change-hurricanes

#BigOilAndGas #CementIndustries #BigAg #BigChem #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #GlobalWarming #ExtremeWeather

reclaimed space remodeling

#Vintage #Rustic #Scraped #ChippedPaint #Remodel #ModernLamp #Resurfaced #Cement #RoundDoorway #ArchedTunnel #StoneSteps #AgedTextures #Rustic #Img2Img #AiArt #AiArtists #StableDiffusion #AiArtCommunity

get IRL: https://aieris.art/featured/reclaimed-space-remodeling-eris-and-ai.html

Even cement likes coffee

Organic products like coffee grounds can't be added directly to concrete because they leak chemicals that weaken the building material's strength. So using low energy levels the team heated coffee waste to over 350 °C (around 660 °F) while depriving it of oxygen.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discovered-an-amazing-practical-use-for-our-leftover-coffee-grounds

#cement
#CoffeeGrounds
#biochar
#sustainability

@cstross
#Cement made with iron #slag has been widely used since decades. For example type IIIC have 83-95% of slag content. Slag cements yet have a very slow setting time. We'll see if they really get actual #clinker (Portland cement is a mix of clinker, gypsum and usually limestone)

"These findings pose a two-fold challenge for #decarbonizing the #steel & #cement industries..governments need to expand essential infrastructure rapidly; on the other hand, industries need to prepare for the risk of deployment failures, rather than solely waiting for large-scale #infrastructure to emerge. Our feasible supply scenarios provide compelling evidence of the urgency of demand-side actions & establish benchmarks for the required level of #resource efficiency"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43684-3

"These findings pose a two-fold challenge for #decarbonizing the #steel & #cement industries..governments need to expand essential infrastructure rapidly; on the other hand, industries need to prepare for the risk of deployment failures, rather than solely waiting for large-scale #infrastructure to emerge. Our feasible supply scenarios provide compelling evidence of the urgency of demand-side actions & establish benchmarks for the required level of #resource efficiency"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43684-3

"These findings pose a two-fold challenge for #decarbonizing the #steel & #cement industries..governments need to expand essential infrastructure rapidly; on the other hand, industries need to prepare for the risk of deployment failures, rather than solely waiting for large-scale #infrastructure to emerge. Our feasible supply scenarios provide compelling evidence of the urgency of demand-side actions & establish benchmarks for the required level of #resource efficiency"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43684-3

"These findings pose a two-fold challenge for #decarbonizing the #steel & #cement industries..governments need to expand essential infrastructure rapidly; on the other hand, industries need to prepare for the risk of deployment failures, rather than solely waiting for large-scale #infrastructure to emerge. Our feasible supply scenarios provide compelling evidence of the urgency of demand-side actions & establish benchmarks for the required level of #resource efficiency"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43684-3

"These findings pose a two-fold challenge for #decarbonizing the #steel & #cement industries..governments need to expand essential infrastructure rapidly; on the other hand, industries need to prepare for the risk of deployment failures, rather than solely waiting for large-scale #infrastructure to emerge. Our feasible supply scenarios provide compelling evidence of the urgency of demand-side actions & establish benchmarks for the required level of #resource efficiency"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43684-3

Heat-related deaths across the world could increase almost fivefold by the middle of the century.
"Where are the trees? Where is the green cover? Everything is becoming cemented."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-15/nsw-heat-deaths-who-report-western-sydney/103105210
#FossilFuels #SilentKiller #Sydney #roads #DePaving #shade #cement #HeatExposure #HeatIslands #ClimateActionNow #ExtremeHeatwaves

@dan613 @catarinac There's a lot more to #SustainableArchitecture & #SustainableMaterials though than just #Cement , #Concrete and #Wood, e.g. #Bamboo , #Wattle & #Daub , #CobBuilding , #Mudbrick #AdobeBuilding , #RammedEarth , #CompressedEarth , #Hempcrete , #Aircrete and #Aerogel from the top of my non-expert head.

@dan613 @catarinac There's a lot more to #SustainableArchitecture & #SustainableMaterials though than just #Cement , #Concrete and #Wood, e.g. #Bamboo , #Wattle & #Daub , #CobBuilding , #Mudbrick #AdobeBuilding , #RammedEarth , #CompressedEarth , #Hempcrete , #Aircrete and #Aerogel from the top of my non-expert head.

@dan613 @catarinac There's a lot more to #SustainableArchitecture & #SustainableMaterials though than just #Cement , #Concrete and #Wood, e.g. #Bamboo , #Wattle & #Daub , #CobBuilding , #Mudbrick #AdobeBuilding , #RammedEarth , #CompressedEarth , #Hempcrete , #Aircrete and #Aerogel from the top of my non-expert head.

@dan613 @catarinac There's a lot more to #SustainableArchitecture & #SustainableMaterials though than just #Cement , #Concrete and #Wood, e.g. #Bamboo , #Wattle & #Daub , #CobBuilding , #Mudbrick #AdobeBuilding , #RammedEarth , #CompressedEarth , #Hempcrete , #Aircrete and #Aerogel from the top of my non-expert head.

The production of #cement, an ingredient in #concrete, accounts for roughly 8% of the world’s annual #carbon #dioxide emissions ( #CO2 ), making it a significant target of #greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. Toward those efforts, the Rice lab of chemist James Tour used flash Joule heating to remove #toxic heavy metals from fly ash
#Chemistry #Engineering #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/03/chm03282301.html

#Shoutout to this #resilient #snapdragon #plant that found a crack in #cement , #SelfSeeded & #grew all by itself 👏 #YouGoWeePlant - You just #GrowOn ❤
It's not looking the prettiest ATM because some pests have eaten leaves but I #respect the #determination to #grow in unexpected places.

#zone8 #plantLover #gardening #YYJGardeners #yyj #VictoriaBC #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #HardyPlants #AlmostSpring #Wsanec #Saanich #TheWillToSurvive #Inspiring #SimpleJoys #PlantPower

New in-road wireless EV charging project pulls ESG rug out from under #Indiana state AG Todd Rokita (shocker!)

#evcharging #EVs #ElectricVehicles #ElectricCars #abortionrights #innovation #electricity #electrification #Automotive #automotiveindustry #automobile #roadconstruction #roads #electrified #cement #cementindustry

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/20/woke-in-the-streets-in-road-wireless-ev-charging-comes-to-indiana/

#Nature is #reclaiming & #rewilding 100 yr+ #cement #factory #ruins in #Wsanec 🌲🙌

There's ongoing #native trees/plants & seagrass planting restoration & invasives removal work happening in this park. There will be volunteer work parties throughout the year.

#Saanich #TodInet #trees #creek #DisabledHiker #CellphonePhotos #MyNaturePhotos #MyNaturePhotos #Samsung8 #forest #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #ReclaimedByNature #NatureDeclaresLandback

The thread about Leith’s lost “Eagle Buildings” and what connects them to the building of the Forth Bridge

This thread was originally written and published in September 2020.

I saw a photo tweeted by the excellent Scran resource and was struck by the coincidence that I had looked the place up only a few days before when I had come across some other photos of it on Flickr.

https://twitter.com/Scranlife/status/1308652327373606912?s=20&t=RiEzrm-6XhDoBt2_yhUtig

The Eagle Buildings were at 5 Tower Street in Leith, next to the Sailor’s Home (now Malmaison Hotel).

Here they are in 1992, when it was being used as a workshop and store by a shopfitter. The photographer suggests demolition was in 1997.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cagiva1994/14016906377/

Most of that “sandstone” front was mock and was actually a showcase of the Portland cement wares of its occupants, Currie & Co. Ltd, Building-Trade Merchants in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leith and across the Scottish central belt.

Currie & Co, Ltd. had been incorporated in April 1898 by the merger of two similar building supply and cement merchant businesses owned by John Patrick Currie:

• Currie & Co. of Glasgow, founded in 1873, headquartered in Wellington Street. Subsidiary companies included the North British Asphalt Company, the North British Coal and Firewood Company and the Eagle Portland Cement Co. This is the eagle connection; it was a brand to sell cement.
• Joseph A. Currie & Co. of Edinburgh and Leith, founded in 1875 and headquartered in Bernard Street in Leith. This business had been bought in 1893 by John Patrick on the death of his brother Joseph Allan at the age of only 42.

This 1911 advert reveals that they had a lineage going back to the late 18th century through A. M. Ross & Sons, slate merchants in Glasgow.

The headquarters had moved from Glasgow to 19 Rose Street in Edinburgh around this time, that building too was called the Eagle Buildings and it remains so to this day. If you crane your neck and look up as you pass, you’ll see an eagle watching over you high above in its “eerie”.

Joseph Allan Currie was born in Cupar, Fife, in 1851. At the age of only 21 he was appointed manager of the Waltham Abbey Gas Works in London. He returned north and settled in Leith two years later, bringing with him a new trade of Portland cement merchant. Cement was not manufactured in Scotland at the time, but was imported from the Medway. Leith was therefore the perfect base for such a venture. Joseph Allan added plaster of Paris, pavement stone, lime, fireclay and earthenware to this business, becoming a successful builders merchant, growing the business to become one of the largest in Scotland. In 1894 his company was reported as being the largest suppliers of roofing felt in the region; an increasingly popular product due to the increasing cost of roofing slate and timber.

His obituary described him as having “indefatigable energy, strong personality and business tact“. Joseph was remarkable as being the sole suppliers of Portland cement for both the Forth Bridge works and the ill-fated first Tay Bridge.

The construction of the Forth Bridge required some 20,000 tons of Portland cement, which was manufactured on the River Medway and was brought by sea to South Queensferry. Here it was transferred to an old hulk that Currie had purchased called the Hougomont; a ship that had been built in Burma as a convict transport for Australia. The Hougomont could store 1,200 tons of cement, which had to be stored for a certain number of days before it was used. When smallpox broke out amongst the workers in 1886, the Hougomont was moved to Port Edgar and used as an isolation hospital, helping the outbreak to be quickly dealt with.

John Patrick Currie – born 1848 – continued to run the business and became the largest Scottish building merchant and cement distributor, Scottish agents for I. C. Johnson & Co. Isaac Charles Johnson and his business partner had painstakingly reverse-engineered existing cement products, improved them and then produced a different product that they were careful to make sure was not subject to existing patents.

An 1894 description of the company in a trade publication states:

The commodities which Messrs. Currie & Co. deal in principally are: Portland cement, Scotch and Irish limes, pavement, freestone, crushed granite, Arran sand, slates, fireclay goods, barytes, umber, plaster of Paris, whiting, &c. In all these lines Messrs. Currie & Co. hold large stocks, and are ready to meet any demands with promptitude. Their standing is accepted as a guarantee of quality, and they spare no effort to maintain their high reputation for reliable material. The business in every department receives the direct personal attention of its founder and sole proprietor, Mr. John P. Currie, a gentleman whose commercial capabilities are well demonstrated in the success that has attended this influential concern. The business in which Mr. Currie is now so actively engaged derives its support from a thoroughly representative and increasing connection, and continues to develop.

Rivers of the North – Their Cities and their Commerce.

It seems that the Curries named nearly all their properties Eagle Buildings, with at least 3 in Glasgow.

John Patrick died at home in Edinburgh in March 1919 at the age of 71. After his death, the company seems to have moved its headquarters to another Eagle Buildings, this time in Dock Street, Dundee. By this time it was an agent for the Cement Marketing Company, which would eventually rename itself after its most famous product; Blue Circle Portland Cement. The company was still trading in 1953, after which the trail in newspaper archives goes cold.

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