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Massachusetts-based Boston Metal is on the verge of earning its first revenue for a novel steelmaking process so clean it can vent emissions into a parking lot the company shares with a day care center.
“It just proves how different the future of steel can be,” said the firm’s senior vice president for business development, Adam Rauwerdink.
The technique, which was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now being scaled up for commercialization, uses electricity to remove contaminants from iron ore, producing a small fraction of the emissions generated by traditional fossil fuel–fired blast furnaces. Indeed, the technology releases no carbon dioxide — just oxygen — and the only greenhouse gas emissions are those associated with the electricity used to power the system.
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https://www.canarymedia.com/articles...ion-technology
So beyond the environmental devastation, are we just building a dead end pit? Quebec has super cheap hydro, maybe they should get into steel making now.