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HeidelbergCement and Joule partnering to explore carbon-neutral fuel application in cement manufacturing

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Cement manufacturing is highly energy and emissions intensive, currently contributing about 6% of global CO 2 (Zhang et al. Producing one tonne of Portland cement releases approximately one tonne of CO 2 to the atmosphere, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Earlier post.). of its entire energy consumption in 2012).

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

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(In 2008, Valero Energy CEO Bill Kless had said that using corn to produce ethanol will make food so expensive in poor countries that it will cause more misery than global warming. In a normal power plant this waste heat is released into the atmosphere; in Farmers’ system they’ll use the engine’s exhaust waste heat to distill the ethanol.