abalone Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:01:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Technology For Making Construction Materials Out Of Carbon Dioxide Inspired By Sea Snail https://www.greenoptimistic.com/abalone-calcium-carbonate-construction-material-20100923/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/abalone-calcium-carbonate-construction-material-20100923/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:01:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10599 The thing on the left is a snail, and it's called abalone. Aside the fact that it's edible, the abalone taught Angela Belcher, from MIT, how to turn carbon dioxide into rock-solid construction materials and thus sequester the gas for hundreds of thousands of years, instead of burying it underground, which is not as safe and as useful.

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