No I don’t.
However, I still support developing technologies that can reduce our energy usage by shifting it over.
I have no problem with developing solar or wind or or renewables and using them where they work, but only if they can be made to work. I support honesty in the industry.
>> I still support developing technologies that can reduce our energy usage by shifting it over. I have no problem with developing solar or wind or or renewables and using them where they work, but only if they can be made to work. I support honesty in the industry.
I support those things too — with this exception:
PRIVATE MONEY ONLY. No taxpayer subsidies for developing “alternative energy”. If “alternative energy processes” benefit the industry to the extent that the industry is willing to fund the engineering out of its own pocket, go for it.
But the fact is — energy for making steel is a solved technical problem. Fossil fuel, especially coal, is plentiful and over the years its use in making steel has become “cleaner”. (Climate change is not a real problem, but air pollution is a real problem, mostly a solved one.)
Therefore it’s not likely that a steel industry interested in making the best steel for its customers at the lowest cost would spend money on solar heating, absent taxpayer-funded government incentives to do so.