Can you produce steel without coal or oil?

There are many alternative ironmaking technologies that don't depend on coal or oil, like Midrex, Finex and many others. In any case, you will need a reducing gas - meaning a gas that can take away the oxygen fron the iron ore. read more

There are many alternative ironmaking technologies that don’t depend on coal or oil, like Midrex, Finex and many others. In any case, you will need a reducing gas - meaning a gas that can take away the oxygen fron the iron ore. read more

As others have pointed out steel can be made with electricity instead of coal. As Dr. Jello pointed out, if you use nuclear power plants to produce the electricity you produce no greenhouse gases. In fact over 50% of the electricity That is Produced in The United States of America is produced in Coal fired power plants. read more

However, 60% of Solid Energy’s coal production in NZ is for steel making, mainly for export, and the company says that “there is no way of making new steel without coal”. If this is true, principled climate campaigners must either stop opposing new coking coal mines on climate change grounds, (Happy Valley, Denniston Escarpment, Mt William, Pike River) or propose a world with no new steel. read more