The resulting material is a synthetic limestone that can go directly back into the concrete process eliminating the need to mine more material and most importantly sequestering the CO2 from powerplants forever resulting in carbon neutral or carbon negative concrete when used in place of mined sand and aggregate.Įqually as important is that Blue Planet's synthetic limestone aggregate has the same structural characteristics and integrity as mined geological limestones and does not change the performance of concrete.īlue Planet's process now needs to scale globally. Brent Constantz, CEO of Blue Planet states, "Our development partnership with KDC marks the point of lift off for our technology. Concrete is composed primarily of sand and gravel from mines, but cement is the principal contributor to the carbon footprint of concrete, even though it comprises only about 10 – 20% of concrete's mass.īlue Planet's revolutionary process can create carbon neutral and carbon negative concrete, with the same structural integrity of existing concrete. Additionally, the process enables the world to create a first of its kind closed loop concrete system reducing the need to further destroy the environment and consume new materials.ĬEO Brent Constantz has over 100 issued US patents and many more patents pending on this type of process technology and has already brought on investors and advisors that include Leonardo DiCaprio, the former President of Stanford University, the primary author of the Montreal Protocol, and the creators of the LEED certification.īlue Planet's process takes CO2 from power plants and sequesters that CO2 in a mineralization technique onto aggregate materials: like sand and gravel.
The cement production process requires a tremendous amount fossil fuels to heat the kiln to around 2,000 degrees, equating to every ton of cement manufactured emitting about one ton of CO2. According to reports the cement industry is responsible for nearly 8% of global annual emissions and if the cement industry was a country it would be third in emissions behind the US and China. Unfortunately, the cement component in concrete's production process also emits a tremendous amount of CO2 in its production. Each year the world uses approximately 4 billion tons of concrete as it is the world's most common building material.
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