Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel

Re:Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel by londons_explore on Thursday November 05, 2020 @03:01AM (#24996441)

Iron can be produced from electricity as the article mentions, but most iron today is produced with coal, since its far cheaper.

This is just a way for the brewery to get cheap heat, with a level of indirection from the source coal so it can be advertised as green.

It's a shame the journalist that did this article didn't think to research how iron is typically made...

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Re:Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel by LarvaFX on Thursday November 05, 2020 @03:55AM (#24996660)

Once made and stuffed into this system, the iron can be used in an infite loop of combustion and restore using electricity when it's available.

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Re:Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel by londons_explore on Thursday November 05, 2020 @07:33AM (#24997670)

Indeed, but the iron oxide powder resulting from this process would be cheaper to turn back into iron metal using coal in a regular blast furnace.

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Re:Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel by hsuduebc on Thursday November 05, 2020 @07:49PM (#25003753)

We'll they are trying to make it green as possible so coal if out of game. At least locally for one device.

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Re:Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel by jacobush on Thursday November 05, 2020 @06:20AM (#24997307)

The Oxygen too could be in the same infinite loop if there is some kind of storage large enough. (Salt mine?)

Then there would be NOx pollutants either.

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