Fly ash generated by coal-fired power stations is an environmental headache, creating groundwater and air pollution from vast landfills and ash dams. Some of the waste product can be repurposed into ...
Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn’t currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads. So, where do you turn for construction materials when they are too big to ...
No matter how many bags of cement are needed to build rocket landing pads, space-strength buildings, and stable housing on the moon, that number is simply too grand to haul up from Earth. “If we’re ...
Alastair Marsh receives funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), and the UK India Education Research Initiative. Venkatarama Reddy works for Indian Institute of ...
When CSIRO scientist Clint McNally needs to run experiments on mining excavation waste, instead of trekking to a remote mine site, he drives to his local pottery store. "Some of my experiments rely on ...
A crushed geopolymer cube made from simulated lunar topsoil, inset shows magnification of lunar topsoil particles which have been activated and reacted to form the geopolymer binder. Sustained space ...