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Interesting point from (copied from the transcript): "The International Energy Agency has suggested that HD-R technology will need to account for at least fift
by zeristor 5y ago
Interesting point from (copied from the transcript):
"The International Energy Agency has suggested that HD-R technology will need to account for at least fifteen percent of all primary steel production by 2050, which equates to one new plant every month for at least two decades starting in 2030. That’ll raise electricity demand by seven hundred and twenty terawatt hours by the middle of this century say the IEA, equivalent to sixty percent of the sector’s total electricity consumption today, all of which will of course need to be supplied via fossil free energy sources like renewables and perhaps even small nuclear reactors, known as SMRs, like the ones that Rolls Royce are hoping to bring into reality by 2035."
Point being that perhaps large solar power plants in the Sahara could be used to generate Hydrogen local industry.
Problems being that the coast would have sea water to produce the Hydrogen, but the steel could be exported from there.