Turning CO2 Into Building Materials: Mineral Carbonation International Tour

In today's video I visit Mineral Carbonation International's pilot plant facility. There are a really wide range of technologies that you can use to take captured CO2 and turn it into a useful product, carbon capture and utilisation or CCU. Often we hear about these kinds of technologies it's something really trendy like alcohol or diamonds. But in order to make any kind of dent in the amount of CO2 we will continue to emit once we've moved to 100% renewable electricity, and decarbonised transport, industrial processes and agriculture to the maximum extent possible, we're going to need to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 each year. And we do not need billions of tonnes of diamonds or cocktails!

A good CCU technology, needs to be three things. It needs to be economic, durable and scalable. Mineral carbonation is one of only a couple of CCU options in development where I really see the potential for a large scale a large amount of tons of CO2 that could be taken permanently out of the atmosphere. It's a natural process that normally removes CO2 from the atmosphere over millions of years. MCi has accelerated the process to minutes which transforms CO2 from a gas into solid materials that can be used in products like concrete and plasterboard.

So I was really excited to get the chance to visit MCi and then take a look in their pilot plant, get an explanation of how their product works and have a look at some of their pilot manufacturing facilities and hear about their plans for scale up into the future.

Bookmarks:
00:00 Intro
01:07 What is Mineral Carbonation and MCi's technnology?
03:43 The raw materials and products of the Mineral Carbonation process
06:29 A tour of MCi's Pilot Plant Facility
09:39 MCi's future scale-up plan going forward
11:11 Rosie's thoughts on Mineral Carbonation
13:03 Outro

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Sources:
https://www.mineralcarbonation.com/
MCi on YouTube:    / @mcicarbon