This boston company has developed a new process to manufacture steel using zero carbon dioxide and a whole lot of electricity

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    5 months ago

    This process seems to have a lot going for it in being small, modular, and single step. That theoretically opens the door for smaller steel making businesses which is good for impoverished countries, or for companies that want to make their steel in-house. And he tacked on at the end that a similar process with maybe a better anode and cathode could end up refining a lot of mining “waste” could reduce our mining needs.