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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by adrianN on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:54AM (#28848659)
You need a little bit of carbon to make carbon steel, but the vast majority of the coke is used for heat and producing a reducing atmosphere to reduce the ore. Both of those can also be done with a process using Hydrogen.
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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by pasabagi on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:27AM (#28863942)
He sort of has a point in that there are some products (plastics, etc) that are only produced from crude oil. The problem is it's pretty doubtful that fracking would be worthwhile if that was the only demand - there's more than enough normal crude to produce plastics.

As I understand it, most fracking isn't even profitable right now - it is only profitable if oil prices are relatively high.

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