Cleveland-Cliffs steel mill in East Chicago, IN to start making steel with hydrogen instead of coal.

[BrickHouse88]

Cleveland-Cliffs building multimillion-dollar hydrogen pipeline to East Chicago blast furnace

Cleveland-Cliffs is building a multimillion-dollar pipeline to pump hydrogen to Blast Furnace No. 7 at Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago.

www.nwitimes.com

I don’t know if the Cleveland-Cliffs steel mill will fully stop making steel with coal, but the site is building a multimillion dollar hydrogen pipeline to melt the iron ore to be converted into steel.

I guess the process will release water vapors instead of carbon emissions, according to that article.

Below are pics of the article if you can’t access the website..

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

It takes more energy to produce hydrogen fuel than the energy that the hydrogen fuel will provide.

 

[Crick]

It takes more energy to produce hydrogen fuel than the energy that the hydrogen fuel will provide.

But if that energy doesn't come from fossil fuels - comes from limitless sunshine, wind, tides - then who cares?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

But if that energy doesn't come from fossil fuels - comes from limitless sunshine, wind, tides - then who cares?

Generating electricity from those low-density sources and then using it to electrolyze water, with low efficiency, and then transporting that hydrogen through a pipeline to produce steel. Wow! I thought American steel was already more expensive than imports.

 

[BrickHouse88]

Generating electricity from those low-density sources and then using it to electrolyze water, with low efficiency, and then transporting that hydrogen through a pipeline to produce steel. Wow! I thought American steel was already more expensive than imports.

Yea, well it’s a step in the right direction for improving technology with making steel without coal.

The US Steel steel mill in Gary, IN releases a DISGUSTING amount of pollution..

(Below is a pic of US Steel in Zug Island, Michigan..)

(I’ve seen it like that at the US Steel in Gary, IN.)

 

[ReinyDays]

Oh wait ... wow ... I can be so 19th Century sometimes ... we're not blooming iron here ... Cleveland Cliffs is starting with steel ... just using hydrogen for fuel ...

Use what's cheapest ... or go without steel ... but isn't clear cutting forests for building materials worse on the environment? ... humans are a dying species and maybe we shouldn't be taking everything else down with us ... maybe? ... so maybe ease up on the wanton destruction ... millions of square miles of rain forest gone for a few years growing chocolate ... disk-cust-ting ...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Yea, well it’s a step in the right direction for improving technology with making steel without coal.

The US Steel steel mill in Gary, IN releases a DISGUSTING amount of pollution..

(Below is a pic of US Steel in Zug Island, Michigan..)

(I’ve seen it like that at the US Steel in Gary, IN.)

Yea, well it’s a step in the right direction for improving technology with making steel without coal.

And without profit.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The US Steel steel mill in Gary, IN releases a DISGUSTING amount of pollution..

That's awful!
I can't see the CO2.

 

[elektra]

Coal will always be part of the steel making process. Or more accurately, coke.

What is worth noting, this story admits solar and wind can not make steel.

 

[BrickHouse88]

That's awful!
I can't see the CO2.

Don’t see the black smog in that pic?

 

[elektra]

Don’t see the black smog in that pic?

Zug island is shutdown

 

[BrickHouse88]

Zug island is shutdown

Oh.

US steel in Gary, IN billows lots of nasty black smoke though. (Like in that pic.)

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Don’t see the black smog in that pic?

CO2 isn't black.

 

[ReinyDays]

CO2 isn't black.

Carbon dioxide is safer than the black stuff ...

The Governator's Hummer

 

[elektra]

Oh.

US steel in Gary, IN billows lots of nasty black smoke though. (Like in that pic.)

I guess we should quit making steel towers for inefficient wind turbines. Quit building solar and wind that need high tension power lines, and the towers that go with them.

How about taking a pic of that steel plant you are talking about.

 

[elektra]

Use what's cheapest ... or go without steel ... but isn't clear cutting forests for building materials worse on the environment? ... ... millions of square miles of rain forest gone for a few years growing chocolate ... disk-cust-ting ...

Balsa wood for wind turbines comes from the rain forest.

Sad, the democrats are destroying the world

 

[ReinyDays]

Balsa wood for wind turbines comes from the rain forest.

Sad, the democrats are destroying the world

Balsa's not strong enough ... we use fiberglass to make wind turbines ... your hatred must be blinding you ...

 

[elektra]

Balsa's not strong enough ... we use fiberglass to make wind turbines ... your hatred must be blinding you ...

Fiberglass alone is two heavy. They made airplanes out of balsa wood.

Your ignorance is extraordinary. To claim my hatred blinds me to the truth, what does that say of reinydays, you, when your hatred falsely accuses those who are actually right.

In my case I am right and I work for the wind industry

 

[elektra]

Billions of Wind Turbine Blades Built With Balsa Wood Stripped From Amazon’s Forests

Green groups are starting to rumble the fact that wind power ain’t so green, after all. Giant industrial wind turbines comprise hundreds of tonnes of steel, aluminium, plastics, copper and rare ear…

stopthesethings.com

Billions of Wind Turbine Blades Built With Balsa Wood Stripped From Amazon’s Forests​

 

[Crick]

Billions of Wind Turbine Blades Built With Balsa Wood Stripped From Amazon’s Forests

Green groups are starting to rumble the fact that wind power ain’t so green, after all. Giant industrial wind turbines comprise hundreds of tonnes of steel, aluminium, plastics, copper and rare ear…

stopthesethings.com

Billions of Wind Turbine Blades Built With Balsa Wood Stripped From Amazon’s Forests​

The last time I checked, balsa wood grows back. 95% of the world's balsa supplies come from Ecuador where it is grown on plantations. It is an incredibly fast growing tree, reaching 30 meters (just under 100 feet) in 15 years. They also rarely live longer than 35 years. --https://www.kew.org/plants/balsa-tree#:~:text=Balsa%20trees%20grow%20incredibly%20rapidly,rarely%20live%20beyond%2035%20years.