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This is wrong. Steel manufacturing happens near ports. We can't shift cities to electricity generation. We historically choose population centres in places wit
by tedk-42 4y ago
This is wrong. Steel manufacturing happens near ports.
We can't shift cities to electricity generation. We historically choose population centres in places with optimal conditions like having good water flow or natural protection with mountain ranges or good level land.
Most industry needs access to transport with shipping being the cheapest.
- pfdietz 4y agoWe can shift production from port cities with expensive energy to port cities with cheap energy.
- PeterisP 4y agoA good example is aluminum production in Iceland, which has a disproportionally huge aluminum refining industry (it makes almost as much aluminum as the whole of USA despite having literally 1000 times smaller population) simply due to the availability of cheap energy and access to ocean shipping.
- pfdietz 4y agoNamibia may become the Iceland of solar energy. The desert comes right down to the ocean.