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You can make steel with charcoal, which is carbon neutral in the end: https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels https://
by lindseymysse 5y ago
You can make steel with charcoal, which is carbon neutral in the end: https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation...
What I like about this idea is it's a way to take carbon out of the air while manufacturing something. We are going to have to deal with carbon no matter what, why not manufacture things with it?
- tuatoru 5y ago> You can make steel with charcoal Not at the scale at which the world needs steel.
- 8note 5y agoIt has a carbon neutral implementation (grow trees, the burn them) but it also has a carbon positive alternative which I much cheaper (cut down existing forests an go out of business once there's no forests) Wood chip heating already has that problem
- i_am_proteus 5y agoMaking steel is how we got here. Europe was decimating her forests for charcoal. England ran out first, then turned to coal, then needed to pump water out of coal mines...
- lindseymysse 5y agoThanks for that history. Alas, no such thing as a free lunch.
- i_am_proteus 5y agoLunch has never been free. Good reads, if this area interests you, are Fernand Braudel Civilization and Capitalism Vol 1: The Structures of Everyday Life and Vaclav Smil Energy and Civilization: A History.