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Re:Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel by tsar_nikolai on Thursday November 05, 2020 @03:06AM (#24996461)
> On a side note, what's the point of a brewery (single business) using it? Do they have some unique energy requirements?

It's a collaboration with a local university to test the technique on industrial scale. According to the researchers there the goal is to grow to grid-scale and convert coal-fired power plans in the coming decade.

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Re:Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel by mikro2nd on Thursday November 05, 2020 @05:04AM (#24996951)
The brewery is not using the process to generate electricity, but to heat fluids (water and wort). The research team behind it hope to scale it up to electricity generation in the future.
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