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MIT scientists propose power storage using cement blocks (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Plan to commercialize supercapacitors in the next few years

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And how greenhouse gas intensive is carbon black production?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If you’re releasing CO2 you’re losing carbon.

If you make it with electricity it’s effectively a carbon sink.

[–] eager_eagle 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's just a byproduct of other industries, like existing coal power plants, it might be seen as carbon neutral. And lithium batteries also use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Carbon black is produced bij burning a hydrocarbon with a limited amount of air. It's not a byproduct, but uses organic materials. This can be of renewable sources like vegetable oil, but it is made a lot from the heavy fractions in fossil oil.