Can we melt steel in a clean way?

Transforming the world to a low carbon future will involve radically changing the industrial and manufacturing sectors. The challenge is: GHG emissions from certain industrial sectors will be the hardest to reduce.

Moving industrial processes to low carbon has several challenges; first these processes require high energy densities, and many of them rely on low energy costs to maintain business continuity, as well as reliable high temperature energy sources. Renewable energy sources are available to the industrial sector, however, electricity costs become a limiting factor…