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: 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: 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: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:30:41 +0000
The Senator from West Virginia’s coal country accuses the Biden Administration of elevating “climate goals above the energy and national security of this nation.” Every time he perceives such a move, Manchin says he will refuse to vote for a Biden nominee.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:48 +0000
Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:05:40 +0000
The Trans Mountain Pipeline was a bad idea from the start. Dropping federal opposition to it in 2016 to bring in the carbon tax was a good choice. Everything after that has been and will continue to be a spiral into the abyss.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:13:45 +0000
Methanol is like hydrogen. Job one is to decarbonize existing uses before inventing new ones. As a marine fuel, it’s not the best choice.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:35:33 +0000
In February, Nine Mile Point nuclear power station in upstate New York started making its own hydrogen. Normally, this would be the point where I’d do the math and explain why this is a terrible idea, but in this case they got it right. So, what are they doing and why? The Nine Mile Point […]