据报道，这种水泥的发明者是伦敦Novacem的首席科学家Nikolaos Vlasopoulos。
Vlasopoulos说，新的环境友好型意味着水泥工业将从二氧化碳的主要排放者转变为主要吸收者。
用全球每年生产的20亿吨水泥吸收掉全球5%的二氧化碳排放量，超过整个航空业的年排放量。
事实上，水泥需求的长期趋势是不断增长的。近日，法国农业信贷银行的一份报告预计，2020年的水泥需求将比现在增加50%。
传统水泥业温室气体排放有两个来源：生产过程需要高温加热，因此需要大量能源来加热水泥窑以加工原料，利如石灰石。而这些原料在分解的过程中会进一步排放二氧化碳。
但是到目前位置，还没有找到一个大规模解决此基本问题的方法。
由于Novacem水泥的基础原料是镁硅酸盐，它不仅需要的热量少，在硬化过程中它还吸收大量的二氧化碳，使碳离子化。
据Novacem说，这种水泥产品在整个生命周期中每吨可吸收0.6吨的二氧化碳，
Novacem水泥对于其使用加热时不释放二氧化碳的镁硅酸盐申请了专利。它在加热时需要的温度也相对不高，大约需要650摄氏度。这使得总二氧化碳排放量为每吨水泥产生0.5吨二氧化碳。
据估计，新的水泥产品具有巨大的潜在市场。
由Vlasopoulos和他的同事在英国伦敦帝国学院建立的Novacem已经引起了一些大建筑公司和投资机构的注意，如Rio Tinto矿业、WSP集团、Laing Orourke公司和节碳基金。
Novacem公司只是刚刚开始一个由政府技术战略委员会支持建立的150万英镑的试验工厂。
如果一切顺利，Vlasopoulos 预计五年内该款Novacem 水泥产品可以投入市场。
附英文：
Engineers invent cement that can eat globe-warming CO2
Thanks to an innovation from British engineers, cement, a vast source of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2), could be transformed into a means of stripping the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.
According to a report in the Guardian, Nikolaos Vlasopoulos, chief scientist at London-based Novacem, made the invention.
The new environment friendly formulation means the cement industry could change from being a significant emitter to a significant absorber of CO2, said Vlasopoulos.
Making the 2 billion tonnes of cement used globally every year pumps out 5 percent of the worlds CO2 emissions, which is more than the entire aviation industry.
In fact, the long-term trends are upwards. A recent report by the French bank Credit Agricole estimated that, by 2020, demand for cement will increase by 50 percent compared to today.
Making traditional cement results in greenhouse gas emissions from two sources: it requires intense heat, and so a lot of energy to heat up the ovens that cook the raw material, such as limestone. That then releases further CO2 as it burns.
But, until now, no one has found a large-scale way to tackle this fundamental problem.
Novacems cement, based on magnesium silicates, not only requires much less heating, it also absorbs large amounts of CO2 as it hardens, making it carbon negative.
According to Novacem, its product can absorb, over its lifecycle, around 0.6 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of cement.
Novacems cement, which has a patent pending on it, uses magnesium silicates that emit no CO2 when hearted. Its production process also runs at much lower temperatures, at around 650 degrees Celsius.
This leads to total CO2 emissions of up to 0.5 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of cement produced.
It has been estimated that the new cement has a vast potential market.
Set up by Vlasopoulos and his colleagues at Imperial College London, Novacem has already attracted the attention of major construction companies such as Rio Tinto Minerals, WSP Group and Laing ORourke, and investors including the Carbon Trust.
The company has just started a 1.5 million pounds project funded by the government-backed Technology Strategy Board to build a pilot plant.
If all goes well, Vlasopoulos expects to have Novacem products on the market within five years.
