Posted on 07/15/2020 10:59:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany on Wednesday pledged to help its steel industry become carbon neutral by 2050, as the coronavirus pandemic squeezes a sector already in a prolonged crisis.
It is important to act now so the steel industry “will still be competitive and environmentally friendly … in 30 years’ time,” Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said.
A proposed plan includes new criteria for awarding public contracts, a minimum quota of low-carbon or carbon-neutral steel in finished products, and a new “green steel” label, Altmaier said.
Industry figures cited by the economy ministry suggest steelmakers will need an extra €30 billion ($34 billion) to become carbon neutral by 2050.
But the plan unveiled Wednesday did not include any new government subsidies. …
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Idiots! Carbon is not the problem. Phony science is.
How stupid are these people?
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Exactly. Carbon is every where in the universe. It’s in our bodies, it’s in the stars, the planets. It’s great stuff. Like hydrogen it’s an essential element. It’s life.
They could use Germanium instead of Carbon. Good luck with that. [\s].
I guess this is the end to research in carbon nanotubes.
Carbon neutral pencil lead would stop global warming too. (not)
Somebody tell BLM these people are racists! They hate anything black.
You want good hard strong steel? You need carbon.
Kinda difficult to make steel without carbon..................
Germany has also turned off all their nuclear power stations.......And I thought Germans were smart.................
Believe they are talking carbon free smelting, no coal/coke.
This will be as efficient as Chinese backyard smelters in the late 50s and be equally productive for Germany’s Green Great Leap Forward.
You read my mind. Carbon free steel? No such a thing exists and never will.
Sure, it makes sense;just will be worthless to build anything with
If they do focus on coke, that’s free of “emissions” anyhow; in England, the earliest steam locomotives were mandated to burn coke instead of coal so that they would “consume their own smoke” as one law put it.
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