A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at a stroke

Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by gene-h on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:34AM (#18388640)

It's not just metals you can smelt, you can also smelt silicon from rocks. It ends up in a melt of iron and silicon, but one could potentially separate out the silicon and use it to make solar cells.[0] Which can then be used to power more electrolysis units to make more solar cells. [0]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200501...

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Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by Heag3aec on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:39AM (#18390084)

And paperclips.

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Re:A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at ... by taneq on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:15AM (#18390290)

Well everything gets turned into paperclips eventually...

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