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AP - US company gets $120 million boost to make 'green steel'

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AP - US company gets $120 million boost to make 'green steel'​



The manufacture of “green steel” moved one step closer to reality Friday as Massachusetts-based Boston Metal announced a $120 million investment from the world’s second-largest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal.

Boston Metal will use the injection of funds to expand production at a pilot plant in Woburn, near Boston, and help launch commercial production in Brazil. The company uses renewable electricity to convert iron ore into steel.

Steel is one of the world’s dirtiest heavy industries. Three-quarters of world production uses a traditional method that burns through train loads of coal to heat the furnaces and drive the reaction that releases pure iron from ore.

Making steel releases more climate-warming carbon dioxide than any other industry, according to the International Energy Agency — about 8% of worldwide emissions. Many companies are working on alternatives.

US company gets $120 million boost to make 'green steel'

The manufacture of “green steel” moved a step closer Friday as Massachusetts-based Boston Metal announced a $120 million investment to help it produce steel that is far less damaging to the climate than traditional steel.
apnews.com
 
And they couldn't do the work here in the US? They have to do it in Brazil?

Thanks for nothing...except a slap in the face for American steel workers.
 
Mycroft said:
And they couldn't do the work here in the US? They have to do it in Brazil?

Thanks for nothing...except a slap in the face for American steel workers.
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Reading this I presume because it is very dirty and releases more carbon dioxide than any other industry.

I think once the cleaning process is figured out and completed, I suspect the US will implement it here

It appears Brazil is doing the "dirty work"
 
Wrong.

They are "doing the dirty work" here, right now. It is being planned to be implemented in Brazil.

Didn't you read the article?

Boston Metal will use the injection of funds to expand production at a pilot plant in Woburn, near Boston, and help launch commercial production in Brazil.​
 
The problems with steel now isn't just that coal is used in the furnaces. It is that we blow up entire mountains and destroy entire ecosystems to get that coal. Even if climate change was not a concern, the environmental devastation from coal mining alone is more than enough of a reason to move away from coal.
 
So basically this is a scam by which jobs and money are outsourced to Brazil
 
It will be done in Brazil where there’s less incentive to regulate and then the press will falsely claim its “green” but really they will just subsidize steel operations in Brazil
 
EMNofSeattle said:
It will be done in Brazil where there’s less incentive to regulate and then the press will falsely claim its “green” but really they will just subsidize steel operations in Brazil
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Typical Globalist bullshit.
 
Yeah its just one of the most inefficient forms of energy in the world.
 
Abandoned coal mines are cool to look at. And it’s hardly “destruction” in a hundred years new environments will grow there
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Abandoned coal mines are cool to look at. And it’s hardly “destruction” in a hundred years new environments will grow there
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Will you ever run out of ways to fail?
 
EMNofSeattle said:
It will be done in Brazil where there’s less incentive to regulate
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Have you been to Brazil? It may be many things...but "a place where businesses go to escape regulation" is not one of them.
 
Pure iron is actually not made anymore, the process to make steel ends up with pure steel, while true pure iron(wrought iron) has not been widely made in over 100 years as almost no one knows how to make it since mild steel was cheaper to make. Pure iron requires blooming, while mild steel requires melting the impurities out then re adding then to obtain desired carbon and allow properties.

Steel is so dirty because it requires carbon to make, carbon literally gives steel it's quality, without carbon the mildest steel is close to copper in softness, wrought iron could likely be made without any carbon added but that would require people knowing how to make it. Even wrought iron being pure was not completely pure, trace amounts of carbon, and other alloys never left during the blooming process which made very malleable iron that was also tough and extremely rust resistant( I have a rifle with a wrought iron barrel that is in better shape after almost 150 years than a modern rifle today that was neglected for a few months)
 
Gatsby said:
Have you been to Brazil? It may be many things...but "a place where businesses go to escape regulation" is not one of them.
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Brazil is actually strict on things that involve money, steel production is regulated, and their big cash cow, well cows, are well regulated, which is why despite claims of hoove and mouth disease and nations trying to ban brazilian beef, brazil has a safer record on earth for beef than anyone else except for scottish highland cows.

Brazil allows corruption, but they do not mess around with anything that is a core tenant of their economy, they will regulate and protect their economy as much as needed if needed.
 
Mycroft said:
And they couldn't do the work here in the US? They have to do it in Brazil?

Thanks for nothing...except a slap in the face for American steel workers.
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Ever considered that the building and supply of the huge volumes of green energy may be easier in Brazil than in the possibly more 'green resistant' US? Designing the tech is one thing, but then you need massive amounts of green energy to make commercial volumes.
 
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