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Zero: The Climate Race
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The Challenges of Hydrogen-Based Steel Production
The world is running out of high-grade ores that are available for steel making. Our planet is made of iron, and there's plenty of iron ore. It's that it has certain grades of ore that cannot be economically processed. To get to zero green premium steel, you need hydrogen at a dollar a kilo when it's cheaper than coal. But even more important,. the issue of transforming our global steel production to an hydrogen-based process comes down to the availability of ores That are needed to make hydrogen-based steel, green steel.
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