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Wouldn't it be handy if you could make granules of "sand" out of carbon, perhaps captured from the air...



It's even better than that. You can grind metal oxides that form a sizeable fraction of Earth's crust and are relatively easy to extract into a sort of "dust" or "sand" that will actively sequester carbon out of the air, with no further energy input needed. Not silicon-based rock, though,


An olivine-process concrete would be the holy grail: net-carbon negative concrete.


Except sand is silicon not carbon




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