" Important examples are hydrogen-based direction reduction (HyDR),[4] hydrogen plasma smelting reduction,[5] and various electrolysis processes (e.g., molten oxides’ electrolysis,[6] molten salt electrolysis,[7] waster-assisted molten salt electrochemical reduction,[8] and electrowinning of solid iron from aqueous solutions[9]). Among these alternatives, the HyDR approach has today reached the highest technology readiness level (TRL 6–8) and is currently being deployed at industrial scale.[2, 10] In this process, green hydrogen should be ideally used, i.e., hydrogen that has been produced using renewable energy sources, generating water instead of carbon dioxide as redox product.[4]
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This article is trying to make HyDR more green since it's already deployed more at an industrial level compared to alternatives at the moment.
Who said anything about hydrogen? You can directly reduce iron electrolytically: https://www.siderwin-spire.eu/