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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] 6 points 6 months ago

Charcoal steel is actually better, as charcoal is generally purer, and steel suffers from phosphor and sulphur impurities. The problem is that it's costlier.

I think that it would be viable to at least reduce the carbon used in steel production just to impregnate it, and conduct the bulk of the reduction through another process.