SSAB Claims a Low Carbon Green Steel Smelting Breakthrough

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  1. Sunsettommy

    Sunsettommy Well-Known Member

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    A truly stupid idea to make "Green Steel" to avoid the coal and coke in steel production, all in the idea of reducing CO2 emission of which the savings is actually trivial.

    Watts Up With That?

    SSAB Claims a Low Carbon Green Steel Smelting Breakthrough
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    Guest essay by Eric Worrall

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    h/t Gerard Flood – SSAB, a Swedish Steel Foundry, claims they have delivered their first batch of steel produced from iron ore using green hydrogen instead of metallurgic coal to a paying customer.

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    It is obvious how stupid it really is....., but there are plenty of science illiterates out there......
     
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    More fuel to the fire, as it were. I'm not sure how the proponents expect to fool anyone who knows any math.
    The Real Cost Of Green Steel
    Willis Eschenbach
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is much agitation in the climatosphere about the amount of “coking coal” used in making steel. A number of allegedly smart folks are working…
     
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