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Startup raises $1.9 million to revolutionize concrete production: 'If everything goes as I dream ...'


A Finnish company is leveraging nearly $2 million in funding to turn air pollution into stone.

Sustainable solutions can remarkably even be borrowed from our ancient past, as researchers are realizing more about Roman building techniques that have kept structures standing for centuries. Some simple weatherization projects, for example, can save hundreds of dollars a year while preventing more than a thousand pounds of air pollution from being generated, depending on the scope of the work. "If everything goes as I dream, our technology will start a process where the constructed environment becomes a carbon sink in the future, not a source of massive emissions," Vehmas told TechCrunch.

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