Penn State: New Glass Cuts Carbon Footprint by Nearly Half and is 10x More Damage Resistant
July 01, 2023
July 01, 2023
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, July 1 (TNSres) -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news:
Worldwide, glass manufacturing produces at least 86 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. A new type of glass promises to cut this carbon footprint in half. The invention, called LionGlass and engineered by researchers at Penn State, requires significantly less energy to produce and is much more damage resistant than standard soda lime silicate glass. The research team rec . . .
Worldwide, glass manufacturing produces at least 86 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. A new type of glass promises to cut this carbon footprint in half. The invention, called LionGlass and engineered by researchers at Penn State, requires significantly less energy to produce and is much more damage resistant than standard soda lime silicate glass. The research team rec . . .