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: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:40:04 +0000
A circular economy for plastic waste must generate profits at all stages. Is it really possible?
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:00:59 +0000
A federal appeals court has ruled that a suit against Exxon and others can be tried in Minnesota state court.
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: Joe Wachunas| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:10:14 +0000
Big news for clean air last week. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) adopted amendments requiring the elimination of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from new water heaters by 2027 and new furnaces by 2029. We’ve been hearing about the indoor pollution from gas stoves this year. Gas water heaters and furnaces also have […]
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.