Negative CO₂ cement factory in Norway

The GuardianNegative CO₂ cement factory in Norway
Norway has built the world’s first carbon-negative cement plant — and it eats CO₂ as it works
In a windswept fjord-side facility, Norwegian engineers have just flipped the script on one of the world’s dirtiest industries. Cement — which usually accounts for 8% of global CO₂ emissions — is being made here in a factory that actually removes carbon from the air.
The secret lies in a new process that binds captured CO₂ into the cement itself using a mineral called olivine, which naturally absorbs CO₂ as it hardens. But it doesn’t stop there — the factory is powered entirely by hydropower and uses heat recapture systems to drive the reaction with minimal energy loss.
The result is a fully carbon-negative production cycle: for every ton of cement produced, 1.2 tons of CO₂ are removed from the environment. And it’s not a prototype. This is a functional commercial plant already delivering product to regional construction projects.
Heidelberg Materials’ cement plant with a carbon capture and storage facility in Brevik, Norway

Interesting. A May article indicates that they captured their first CO2 earlier this year: https://www.brevikccs.com/en/node/522705

I will be curious how cost effective it can be, as the cement industry tends to always aim at the lowest price. Perhaps Norway will incentivize using the Brevik product.

Thanks for sharing, it will be good to see if it can be scaled and replicted affordably.

Best,
Mark

Interesting. The article states it hopes it's economically viable. Doesn't bode well, if it were the industry would have boasted about it.
I don't know if betting on technological fixes we introduce is going to change the output of CO2 much.  Because the price of oil and coal will go down and the developing countries will use it. The place of the output will just change.
As a Permie, ( i am aware we are very few, even more so in Europe) i would like to emphasize a different world. One in which we depend less on extraction, but use local renewable materials. But on this side of the pond, you're bureaucratically discouraged to build your own shelter, because it's deemed unsafe. The governments guide people into concrete housing costing half a lifetime to pay back.
I have more faith in Willie Smits his techniques of capturing CO2 by employing local populations to capture massive amounts of CO2 in biodiverse newly planted forests, building soils and providing biofuels out of  forests so big they restore waterretention. So much so that they can sell water to the nearby city. It's a sad state of affairs no political party or NGO is pushing for massive follow-up of the work of this aging permaculture pioneer. It always seems to be these types of pies in the sky that attract major public taxpayer funding funneling money into the same banking system that has gotten us into this mess in the first place.
To end on a positive note, great less CO2, well done everybody.

Mark, I investigated your link, it is interesting and led me to another link co2-capture-and-utilisation, is it practicle?