A detailed survey of geological resources in Europe and the U.S. shows abundant amounts of suitable natural resources, and laboratory experimentation bears out the viability of making geopolymeric cements with these materials. The resulting concrete has superior properties to Portland cement based concrete. Geopolymeric concrete is durable enough to afford permanent roads and bridges. Thus geopolymeric infrastructure will require very little repair ever, allowing a tremendous reduction in the amount of money that would otherwise have to be spent on the on-going repairs of crumbling roads, bridges, sewer systems, and other elements of infrastructure. Geopolymeric concretes are the modern counterparts of ancient concretes, such as certain Roman concretes, that have survived in extremely harsh environmental conditions for thousands of years.
Geopolymeric concretes are actually man-made rock.
As such, when geopolymeric cement is mixed with natural rock aggregates, the resulting concrete retains the beauty and excellent properties of strong natural rock. As well, some waste materials, including fly ash and mining wastes, contain ingredients that produce a geopolymeric chemical reaction, and thus also support the economical manufacture of geopolymeric cement. When mining wastes are encapsulated in geopolymeric concretes, these mineral wastes are more strongly bound than in their natural ores, so that encapsulated waste will not leach out even under the worst possible environmental conditions. Geopolymeric concretes are currently being used on a small scale for environmental restoration. Geopolymeric concretes can safely encapsulate hazardous wastes that remain problematic with other means of containment.