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Originally Posted by Fuzz
You can use hydrogen now. Maybe the province should lean into that, since they love hydrogen so much.
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That's not really how it works.
Canadian mills for the most part fall into 3 categories,
the biggest ones are the top photo, they need coal.
the other more common and established mills are the right half of the bottom photo, but on the left half is primarily fed from scrap, not iron ore. They are steel mills but not steel refineries. They need scrap, which becomes scarce fast if you stop burning coal. *The tiny amount of steel making capacity in Alberta falls into this category.
the newer lines at 2 of the mills kind of follow the bottom process, but use natural gas instead of hydrogen, and also use scrap and waste from the top mills as feed stock.
There is also the problem of Grey hydrogen, where you are actually creating more GHG than you would if you just used fossil fuels directly, instead of burning them to make an intermediate product that is later re-heated again.
The Canadian steel industry as is very much needs coal still to produce, just not coal from the Alberta Rockies, it's the wrong kind and in the wrong place to work for them.
