Steel’s Outsized Carbon Emissions Will Shrink Rapidly In Coming Decades Even As Demand Rises

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:35:28 +0000

DALL·E generatred image of feeding scrapped steel into an electric furnace, digital artWith 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.

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Steel Is A Major Climate Problem, But Can Decarbonize Rapidly In The Coming Decades

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:25:18 +0000

DALL·E generated image of a beached oil tanker being cut up for scrap steel, digital artSteel, 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 […]

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Steel Is A Major Climate Problem, But We Have Proven Tools

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:35:18 +0000

DALL·E generated image of a river of hot steel being formed into ingots, digital artWe’ve already manufactured an awful lot of steel. There are hundreds of billions of tons of the stuff lying around, much of it obsolete.

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New Coal-Fired Unit Operating at Zimbabwe’s Largest Thermal Power Plant

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:57:04 +0000

The first of two 300-MW units being built as part of the expansion of a coal-fired generating station in Zimbabwe has come online. The Zimbabwe Power Co. (ZPC) said the unit began sending electricity to the national grid late on March 20. ZPC in a statement said, “Power will be progressively fed into the grid […]

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Another Hydrogen For Energy Play Predictably Fails, This Time In Marine Fueling

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:25:27 +0000

DALL·E generated image of a white elephant eating piles of money, digital artExpect a lot more announcements about shutting down hydrogen for energy projects like the recent one from Equinor, Aire Liquide, and Eviny.

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With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 50%

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:48 +0000

DALL·E generated image of an industrial plant wasting lots of heat, reddish, digital artElectrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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EPA Projects Final ‘Good Neighbor Plan’ Will Result in 14 GW of Coal Retirements

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:23:48 +0000

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 15 issued the final “Good Neighbor Plan,” its latest iteration of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) that could require coal, oil, or gas steam power plants in 22 states to reduce their nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions levels by 50% by 2027 compared to the 2021 ozone season. […]

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Dismissal Of Methanol As Marine Fuel Leads To Pushback

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:13:45 +0000

DALL·E generated image of a clean electric container ship sailing past islands under a beautiful blue sky with small clouds, digital artMethanol is like hydrogen. Job one is to decarbonize existing uses before inventing new ones. As a marine fuel, it’s not the best choice.

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EPA Rolls Out More Stringent Effluent Limitations Guidelines for Coal Power Plants

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:53:06 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing more stringent discharge standards for three types of coal power plant wastewater as part of an update to its Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELGs). However, the agency also proposed compliance flexibilities, and in a separate direct final rule, moved to extend a deadline to allow more coal plants to […]

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