Comment on How to Escape From the Iron Age?
InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Rio Tinto is moving to solar here in Australia for its aluminum refining and smelting operations. Would be good if the same could be done for steel too.
Comment on How to Escape From the Iron Age?
InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Rio Tinto is moving to solar here in Australia for its aluminum refining and smelting operations. Would be good if the same could be done for steel too.
psud@lemmy.world 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