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Re:Making steel without emitting CO2 by okeuro49 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @11:17AM (#39290373)
Countries like China are just building more coal power stations, while the UK trashes its small remaining industry, pretending to save CO2.

https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/chinas-new-coal-po...

Re:Making steel without emitting CO2 by pjc50 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @06:28AM (#39300718)
China also installed 200GW of solar. https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/12/29/europe-us-china-wh... ; the cost curve is turning and there are central directives from the country to use a minimum quota of renewable energy in production.

The UK industry is just uneconomic, it's not a green issue.