So one strategy is to find a substitute for the clinker.

所以一个策略是找到熟料替代品。

But producing high-quality clinker is a complex science.

然而，生产高质量熟料是一门复杂科学。

To produce clinker, you need to maintain a temperature of over 1,400 degrees Celsius.

要生产熟料，需要将温度维持在摄氏1400度以上。

We could reduce the clinker ratio even more.

我们可以进一步降低熟料比。

Most of the emissions come from the process of producing clinker, the key ingredient in cement.

大部分排放来自生产水泥熟料过程，熟料是水泥成分。

In North America, clinker accounts for about 90% of cement due to safety standards.

在北美，由于安全标准，熟料约占水泥 90%。

Startups have been in a race to develop a new kind of green cement that avoids clinker altogether.

初创公司一直在竞相开发一种完全不含熟料新型绿色水泥。

Once it goes through the kiln it becomes a material called clinker: the key binding ingredient in cement.

一旦进入窑炉，它就变成了一种叫做熟料材料：水泥粘合成分。

They talked outboard-motors and debated clinker versus carvel until their mugs were empty.

他们谈论舷外发动机， 争论熟料还是卡维尔， 直到他们杯子都空了。

China uses less clinker in their cement than the global average and they have at least one carbon capture project in the works.

中国在水泥中使用熟料比全球平均水平要少，而且他们至少有一个碳捕获项目正在进行中。

Ecocem, an Irish startup, is making cement that uses less clinker, the intermediate material derived from the heated limestone, and thus emits less carbon.

Ecocem 是一家爱尔兰初创公司， 正在生产使用较少熟料（从加热石灰石中提取中间材料） 水泥， 从而减少碳排放。

Experts emphasized one new cement mixture that gets the clinker ratio safely down to 50% by supplementing it with more clay and unprocessed limestone.

专家们强调了一种新水泥混合物，通过添加更多粘土和未加工石灰石，可以将熟料比例安全地降低到 50%。

These reductions will help in reducing emissions… but until we find a scalable, zero-emission cement, any clinker production at all will inevitably have process emissions.

这些减少将有助于减少排放… … 但在我们找到可扩展零排放水泥之前，任何熟料生产都将不可避免地产生过程排放。

He continued growing the company and established a bank before commisioning Willis Polk, who would become his architect of choice, to design for him a towering red clinker brick townhouse in San Francisco's Pacific Heights Neighborhood.

在委托威利斯·波尔克之前，他继续把公司发展壮大并建立了一家银行，波尔克，他后来首建筑师，在旧金山太平洋高地社区为他设计了一座高耸红色熟料砖联排别墅。

So the secret sauce is to produce cleaner and higher quality clinker, because the higher the quality of the clinker, the less of it you will need to produce cement ultimately, and therefore the less emissions you will generate.

而解决方法就是生产更干净、更高质量熟料，因为熟料质量越好，生产水泥所需熟料就越少，进而降低二氧化碳排放量。