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To: Red Badger

Yesbut...this process produces iron, not steel. Iron, obviously the main component of steel, is fairly useless unless and until it is converted to steel. It has nothing like the strength of steel. The process, or I should say, the several processes for converting iron to steel, requires the steel to be brought to above its melting point and blasting oxygen through it. Naturally this could be done with wind generators/s.

Converting iron to steel also involves the introduction of various other metals, manganese, chromium, nickel, etc; to create alloys with various desirable characteristics. For this to occur, the metals have to be liquified.

So even though iron could be produced electrolytically, steel can not, not to mention all the alloys that make life itself© possible.


14 posted on 04/09/2025 8:58:56 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

“Converting iron to steel also involves the introduction of various other metals, manganese, chromium, nickel, etc; to create alloys with various desirable characteristics. For this to occur, the metals have to be liquified.”

And Carbon. First and foremost Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon.


16 posted on 04/09/2025 9:30:51 PM PDT by Openurmind
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