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 … [continued]
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.
Achieving a net-zero US steel sector will require investments in new, low-emissions primary steel production. In a big year for climate action, 2022 saw the United States double down on strategies and mechanisms to accelerate its economy toward achieving net zero. These incentives at the state and federal level (including … [continued]
Woke or not, Kentucky is behind a new green steel factory that supports President Joe Biden’s goal for offshore wind development in the US.
Green steel needs to overcome an iron ore supply chain bottleneck, and the startup Electra has a solution.
Courtesy of the Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA) Washington, D.C. — Steel produced by electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmakers in the U.S. has a carbon intensity that is approximately 75% lower than traditional blast furnace steelmakers. This is the finding of an independent study of steelmakers worldwide conducted by CRU Group, a global … [continued]
Green steel is on everyone’s lips these days as companies scramble to find new ways to make it with less carbon emissions.
Carbon capture and upcycling is one of the avenues ArcelorMittal is pursuing to cut fossil fuel out of the steel making picture.
A recent report in Nature not only highlighted the need for greening the building blocks of our civilization, but also made some strong suggestions for how to do so. “Cement and steel are essential ingredients of buildings, cars, dams, bridges and skyscrapers. But these industries are among the dirtiest on … [continued]
The Early Adoption Case (EAC) of our newly released Issues in Focus: Energy Implications of Potential Iron and Steel-Sector Decarbonization Pathways explores the effects on energy demand of the steel industry becoming an early adopter of renewable hydrogen and increasing the share of steel produced using electric arc furnaces in China, OECD … [continued]
