• @bstix
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    73 months ago

    It’s not a first as the article suggests.

    Sweden is way ahead on making steel production carbon neutral. It’s not about capturing the carbon - it’s about not using carbon at all.

    • admiralteal
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      23 months ago

      Industrial heat from renewable energy is a rapidly-growing field right now. Lot of ‘box of rocks’ companies in the field. I know Rondo has some pilots for cement plants making clinker using renewable energy, for example.

      Solar is already so cheap that it makes sense to switch to it as your energy source as the tech allows it – and the tech is already allowing it. Hopefully wind will catch up to that point soon too.

    • @silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      13 months ago

      It the first using a process which generates CO2 and then turns a little bit of it into something useful. Hybrit uses hydrogen for reducing iron ore instead of carbon.