[UCLA's team of interdisciplinary researchers'] plan would be to create a closed-loop process: capturing carbon from power plant smokestacks and using it to create a new building material — CO2NCRETE — that would be fabricated using 3D printers. [...]
“We can demonstrate a process where we take lime and combine it with carbon dioxide to produce a cement-like material ... We’re trying to develop a process solution, an integrated technology which goes right from CO2 to a finished product."
— luskin.ucla.edu
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Typically theres a 50 year lag for new technologies, but for this i give it at least 100 to get to the point where someone will talk about using it. But the designers in europe may experiment
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