We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.

We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.

  • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    Electric arc furnaces are becoming more common across the steel industry, coke alternatives not so much. Being a commodity, any steel plant that chooses more expensive ingredients is going to quickly go out of business

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
      31·
      7 months ago

      any steel plant that choses more expensive ingredients is going to quickly go out of business

      That’s true, and perhaps governments could/should kick in. The shift would be overall advantageous for society, so I think that it could be viable to tax coke production and use those taxes to subsidise plants using greener energy, offsetting the costs.

      In the meantime, perhaps some global measures. Such as a treaty specifically addressing steel-based carbon emissions. Big thing here would be to convince the big three (China, India, and Japan); if the shift is desirable and viable for those three, others are easier to convince.