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LATEST – Tuesday, Sep 24/2024
Silica-X and Tersa Earth Sign MoU
The collaboration will integrate Silica-X’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, WastePoint AI, and solution set into Tersa Earth’s operations, positioning the company as a leader in AI-driven biotech and zero-waste solutions for the mining and waste management industries.
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Fortune worked with Bill Gates and his colleagues at Breakthrough Energy and Gates Ventures to put together this extensive package of stories on the signal crisis of our age. That crisis is not the COVID-19 pandemic—it’s climate change. Click the image above to read the rest of the stories.
Fortune
"This ancient Roman material could unlock the secret to building greener and longer-lasting buildings."
~ BY BERNHARD WARNER
Thursday, Aug 8/2024
Silica-X: Blue Barrier ™
Novel marine concrete utilizing waste, developed by Silica-X and scientists at Alfred University’s Inamori School of Engineering as part of the Blue Barrier™ project, was unveiled at a press conference and reception at the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn. Created in partnership with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), in support of Executive order 22 and New York's Buy Clean Concrete mandate, the material is expected to have far-reaching environmental benefits.
Mark Zupan, Alfred University president, speaks during the press conference and reception held at the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn on research conducted at Alfred University to create an environmentally-friendly novel concrete using waste.
Popular Science
"Inside the project to bring ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete to American shorelines – Lessons from 2,000-year-old Roman material could help us build structures better suited for a waterlogged future."
~ BY BEN GUARINO
Silica-X has successfully reproduced synthetic analogs for Roman tephra from waste – enabling scientists to reproduce ancient Roman concrete.
Silica-X has successfully reclaimed an array of industrial and post-consumer residues and ashes to create an array of cementitious materials, concretes, and geopolymers. This includes Advanced Reactive Concrete derived from Roman Concrete.
Wired
"The Secret to Making Concrete That Lasts 1,000 Years Scientists have uncovered the Roman recipe for self-repairing cement – which could massively reduce the carbon footprint of the material today."
~ BY JIM MORRISON
Savannah River National Laboratory
"These cellular magmatics are a nascent green material, with the potential to help significantly reduce or find valuable uses for municipal wastes. The cellular magmatics project was born from decades of materials science expertise funded by EM in support of nuclear waste immobilization."
~ Testimony by Dr. Vahid Majidi, speaking before The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Scanning electron microscope image of zeolite crystals on the cell wall of functionalized, engineered cellular magmatic GEMs.
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