July 10, 2023
DMSE startup is cleaning up the cement making industry
Sublime Systems' method is powered by electrochemistry instead of fossil-fuel-powered heat.
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In a demonstration of the basic chemical reactions used in the new process, electrolysis takes place in neutral water. Dyes show how acid (pink) and base (purple) are produced at the positive and negative electrodes.
Image: Felice Frankel
Sublime Systems, a startup founded by Professor Yet-Ming Chiang and former MIT postdoc Leah Ellis, aims to decarbonize cement making, an industry that generates 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Sublime’s method is powered by electrochemistry instead of fossil-fuel powered heat. “I believe climate change has pushed all of us into an extremely fertile, creative period that will be looked back on as a true renaissance,” Chiang tells reporter Catherine Clifford. “After all, we’re trying to re-invent the technological tools of the industrial revolution.”
Read the full story on CNBC.