HermesTheMessenger
HermesTheMessenger t1_j5pbtbn wrote
Reply to Reducing the carbon footprint of the steel industry could help curb climate change, but these improvements won't happen without international policy change, new research says. by Impossible_Cookie596
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As I understand it, running high temperature furnaces needed to smelt metals (new or replacement) currently requires fossil fuels (usually coal). That isn't going to be an easy problem to solve. Maybe use electric furnaces to lower the delta between air temperature and the desired temperature, and then use fossil fuels to bridge the gap?
HermesTheMessenger t1_j5tqv67 wrote
Reply to comment by tinny66666 in Reducing the carbon footprint of the steel industry could help curb climate change, but these improvements won't happen without international policy change, new research says. by Impossible_Cookie596
Thank you for the details!