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Old 12-15-2020, 02:40 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Off topic. Sosueme.

Fossil free steel. Another giant step towards net carbon zero?

This process substitutes hydrogen for coke and operates at lower temperatures. It produces sponge iron which can be treated like recyclable steel.

They pitch it a a solution for carbon dioxide reduction (both energy saved and gases reduced) but it occurs to me that this will be important off-planet. Mars needs stainless steel.
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