Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:35:13 +0000
Steel will not remotely be a constraint for global transformation of energy over the coming decades. We make vastly more of it per year than annual requirements, and there’s an increasing amount of scrap being created.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:35:28 +0000
With more scrapping and more direct reduction using lower carbon technologies such as Midrex’ DRI and HYBRIT every decade, and the likely creation of those facilities closer to iron ore mines, high-emissions furnaces will go out of business over the coming decades, unable to decarbonize.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:05:17 +0000
Looking at social media, it’s easy to assume that Canada is like a left-leaning version of the United States. Celebrities promise to move there if elections don’t go their way, but they almost never actually do it. We’re also reminded regularly by Canadian Twitter users that we’re dumb when things go wrong that they don’t […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:05:15 +0000
Two legal researchers have written a paper that claims fossil fuel companies should be prosecuted for committing climate homicide.
Credit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:20:10 +0000
Reports on “positive tipping points” point to technical solutions, but they miss the role of politics in decarbonizing the economy. When it comes to climate change, tipping points are typically a bad thing. They refer to a threshold at which irreversible, self-perpetuating and catastrophic environmental changes – often referred to as feedback loops – will […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:25:18 +0000
Steel, like concrete, is such an integral part of our world that we rarely notice it. From wherever you are reading this, I guarantee that there is steel in your line of sight, and likely vastly more of it than you realize. Whatever device you are reading it on has steel inside of it. If […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:35:18 +0000
We’ve already manufactured an awful lot of steel. There are hundreds of billions of tons of the stuff lying around, much of it obsolete.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:32:17 +0000
The latest IPCC Synthesis Report says there is still a chance of limiting global overheating, but it will take lots of time and money.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:05:36 +0000
We’ve mined enormous amounts of iron and coal in order to build infrastructure to extract, process, refine, and distribute fossil fuels, and we’re going to have lots of scrap steel to work with.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:35:39 +0000
Scope 3 emissions account for 95% of all greenhouse gases released by Shell, but the company doesn’t want to talk about them.