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Re:Green steel without green hydrogen – can it work? by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:13PM (#30349350)
It seems likely that almost any process that uses fossil inputs can be done reasonably well by simply subbing in electricity to fake the original process (e.g in this case making green hydrogen) but that there's a lot of synergies to be unlocked by revisiting from first principles.

It's like TV going from radio with pictures to its own thing, or horseless carriages becoming automobiles etc. A new paradigm for looking at things afresh.

Re:Green steel without green hydrogen – can it work? by HPsquared on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:18PM (#30349434)
You could even make a "fake internal combustion" engine that uses high-power electric arcs or lasers to super-heat the compressed air in the cylinders at the right moment, instead of combustion. Super inefficient and would likely spew out ozone and/or nitrogen oxides, but fun.