Playing with Fire: Harnessing Lava to Build Sustainable Cities

Playing with fire: Harnessing lava to build sustainable cities

When it comes to carbon emissions, there's no bigger foe than the building and construction sectors, which contribute at least a third of global greenhouse gases.

The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava

The US is failing to narrow the technological gap between it and China

Company plans to harness lava to build future cities

Green Cement Is Changing How We Build – Marci Jenks, Eco Material Technologies - Electric Ladies

“Our core business is harvesting and collecting the by-product from coal combustion plants historically, called fly ash. We introduce it into supplementary cementitious materials to create a Portland cement replacement. We are pushing for 20% and even 30% [replacement of traditional cement] and hopefully reaching 100% one day with our technologies that are still in development.” Marci Jenks on Electric Ladies Podcast We need infrastructure that’…

The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava – Mnnofa

One more thing ​​Adventures in the genetic time machine An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the past. The technology is being used to create genetic maps of saber-toothed cats, cave bears, and thousands of ancient humans, including Vikings, Polynesian navigators, and numerous Neanderthals. The total number of ancient humans studied is more than 10,000 and risin…