We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
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Rio Tinto is moving to solar (and some wind) here in Australia for its aluminum refining and smelting operations. Would be good if the same could be done for steel too.
How else do u suppose we make steel?
Use renewable and clean energy sources to produce electricity then make steel with induction heater or other forms of electricity-based heat?
That’s… Not how steel production works.
Coal is a significant component in the production of steel to impregnate it with carbon.
I wonder if we can move more towards charcoals, but even then I wonder if that’s just much less effective.
The hybrit process that some Swedish steelmakers (including SSAB - not a typo, it isn’t Saab) are using looks promising. They’ve been testing it with Volvo and are apparently making it part of Volvo’s regular process in 2026
Cool, I learned something new today.
what about giving up on steel and moving into something more ‘vintage’, like clay @_@
