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At a stroke* *Not including the time required to retool the entire Earth's iron smelters into electrolytic smelters and build out associated electric infrastru
by tomatotomato37 8y ago
At a stroke*
*Not including the time required to retool the entire Earth's iron smelters into electrolytic smelters and build out associated electric infrastructure needed to accompany the exponential increase of a country's energy intake.
- ajross 8y agoThat's spinning too hard in the other direction. This is a technique for smelting. Once smelted and shipped, the metal is always going to be remelted anyway to mix and cast the final alloy. And in fact in the modern world the bulk of this work is done with electricity already in an electric arc furnace. We're talking about a constant factor on top of a steel industry already very dependent on electrical power, certainly not (sigh) an "exponential increase of a country's energy intake".