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How to Escape From the Iron Age? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

what about giving up on steel and moving into something more 'vintage', like clay @_@

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's fundamentally different from steel. We don't really have an alternative currently. You could use something like aluminium but that's not environmentally friendly either (in the initial production, for recycling it's great).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In Europe, even a single family home is now built using tons of steel. They build with brick, but the foundation, corner pillars, beams on top of walls are all concrete.

A few decades ago, reinforced concrete beams were only used in large buildings and infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Not to mention the huge amount of carbon emissions resulting from cement production, for the concrete that steel is fixed in