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Environment

Cement Firm Pairs With Joule On CO2

by Melody M. Bomgardner
December 21, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 49

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Credit: Heidelberg Cement
A HeidelbergCement plant in Germany.
A picture of a cement truck being loaded.
Credit: Heidelberg Cement
A HeidelbergCement plant in Germany.

Renewable fuels firm Joule will partner with German building materials maker HeidelbergCement to explore how to mitigate carbon emissions in cement manufacturing. Joule’s process takes in waste CO2, sunlight, and water to make ethanol and other fuels using engineered microbes. The work could lead to the colocation of Joule installations with one or more of Heidelberg’s roughly 100 cement plants around the world.

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