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Re:The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disruptive Yet by philipkglass on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:19PM (#19566352)
Half of that is from the chemical transformation of limestone to quicklime, and half of it is from the fuel energy currently used to drive the transformation:

https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/09/emissions-from-the-...

So if carbon-neutral fuels or clean electricity were substituted in the calcination process, the CO2 burden would be reduced by half without any additional downstream changes.

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