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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Aluminium has traditionally been smelted with electricity. It's easy to move to green tech

Steel is harder. There is serious work that had been going on for years trying to come up with new low emissions ways of making steel