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as the chequered flag waves, designboom looks back on the two-week-long, world’s most extreme racing adventure – the dakar rally.
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the SONDORS metacycle is equipped with a 4000 watt hour 72 volt battery that gives you the ability to roam free up to 80 miles.
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the mink 2.0 sports camper is a fully-equipped heated mini camper with an outdoor kitchen and a panorama roof.
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both the mechanical and R&D teams at sunreef yachts worked on every aspect of the car to combine a knowledge of green tech with a passion for motorsports.
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Emission free cement…!!!
That is clearly hype and advertising…not honest science!!!
First, I would really love to know the primary funding source for this research and information. It wouldn’t be the “cement industry” itself would it?
Second, starting an article with cherry picked and groomed statistics is always a red flag from my perspective. OPC (ordinary portland cement) is the world’s construction industry addiction…not a great building material. Yet down playing its emissions to only 8% is clearly a groomed statistic and not taking into account all the other support industries that are involved in its harvesting, transportation, fabrication, and manufacture …as well as…its continued replacement as the OPC infrastructure of the world falls apart around us about every 20 to 40 years only to be replaced with the same crap product…MODERN OPC.. Which is great for the cement and construction industry behind it for sure…So to be honest, let’s use the real stats on what it does to the level of pollution generated across the board from the complete picture of its use (and re-use) at 25%…not 8%.
As to a “new way,” I find these comments amusing when I read them. Most often it is more about “reinventing the wheel” than a “new way.” A wheel, by the way, that wasn’t broken in the first place and functioned perfectly (and better than today) for the first four thousand years of its existence. Humans had geopolymeric methods we are still trying to “re-learn” and related pozzolans (aka natural cements) far superior to modern day OPC, but the greedy could not really build a “super industry” around those modalities so it got “dumbed down” and industrialies to be a major consumable and also profitable…NOT…a better building material. So this may be a “new way” (perhaps?) at making a crappy building material easier to make, but why do it when the original materials have proven over millennia to be better and there are alternatives to it anyway?