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I remember reading that in aluminum smelting, compared to other industrial processes, the energy cost is an especially large part of the overall costs. So whe
by dsjoerg 9y ago
I remember reading that in aluminum smelting, compared to other industrial processes, the energy cost is an especially large part of the overall costs. So when energy costs are abnormally low, smelting aluminum could go from bad to OK to wildly profitable.
- Baeocystin 9y agoYou're right. A key sentence from the second link I posted: > the embodied energy (all the energy used to make the material) for aluminium is 211 GJ per tonne, compared to 22.7 GJ per tonne for steel.