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The military needs steel needs coal. This does appear to be a signal that Germany is letting down its guard.
by programmarchy 8y ago
The military needs steel needs coal. This does appear to be a signal that Germany is letting down its guard.
- jupp0r 8y agoI think most machinery in the military runs on gas nowadays.
- programmarchy 8y agoCoal is an input to steel production.
- jupp0r 8y agoCoal can be used for steel production. There are also electric arc furnaces, being used for around 25% of steel produced globally [1]. Also, only 12% of coal production is used to make steel [2]. [1] https://www.worldcoal.org/coal/uses-coal/how-steel-produced https://www.worldcoal.org/coal/uses-coal/how-steel-produced [2] https://coalaction.org.nz/carbon-emissions/can-we-make-steel-without-coal https://coalaction.org.nz/carbon-emissions/can-we-make-steel...
- dev_dull 8y agoIt’s not about heating the furnaces. Coking coal is an ingredient in steel production with iron.
- geff82 8y agoCoal is needed for steel production, so if the coal supplies from abroad stop, no steel can be produced and thus no tanks.
- rdl 8y agoEnergy matters a lot more, since it is essential to military operation AND to production, and production is very heavily biased toward things other than large quantities of steel these days. Even a 1-2 year crash program of building new weapons in advance of a conflict is probably not limited by steel production.
- hwillis 8y agoYou are wrong. Direct reduced iron[1] is made with natural gas instead of coal. The amount of steel currently made without coal is about the same as the amount of crude steel made in the US. [1]: https://www.midrex.com/news-literature/news-releases/world-dri-statistics https://www.midrex.com/news-literature/news-releases/world-d...