Now, it's sent to a plant near Philadelphia International Airport, to be converted into pellets to fertilize golf courses and farms, or
fuel cement kilns.
Intense heat — with
kiln fires
fuelled by felled redwoods — extracted pure lime, a key ingredient in construction
cement, which was used in buildings to the north in Monterey.
To make
cement, you cook calcium carbonate at high temperature, producing 4 % of the world's carbon dioxide in two ways: through the
fuel used to heat the
kiln, and through the chemistry of converting calcium carbonate to lime and carbon dioxide.
Just about nothing else would cost so much and do so little, so the bunnies have asked Eli why Roger and the Breakers are doubling down CO2 capture at the source (fossil
fuel power plants,
cement kilns) imposes a cost on the fossil
fuel industry.
In heavy industy, fossils
fuels will always be required for lime and
cement kilns, metal smelters, steel mills, foundries and metal casting plants, metal cutting and braising torches, all factories that make ceramics (e.g., bricks, tiles, china, glass, etc), all food production, processing and distribution, space and water heating, cooking and baking, BBQ's, manufacture of porcelain - coated metals, harvesting of wood and lumber manufacture, isolation of essential oils by steam distillation for prepartion of fine fragrances flavors, etc because the
fuels provide HIGH HEAT.