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Sweden has already producing green steel: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/19/green-steel-swedish-company-ships-first-batch-made-without-using-coal

• belorn 4y ago
  The engineer that got interviewed, who worked at Hybrit, went through how their experimental prototype of a small production unit that they finished in 2021 did give them a lot of insight in the problems with scaling up production. The key problem they kept returning to is to get it profitable outside of government subsidies, and the next size up will provide a lot more experience in doing so even if it will fall far from actually supporting itself in terms of economics. If we are going to use press released by experimental prototypes funded by government research grants, then why stop at green hydrogen. Fusion is already here! Here is an article from last year showing how they already produced energy from fusion ignition: https://www.llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facility-achieves-fusion-ignition https://www.llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facility-achieve... H2 Green Steel, the competitor to Hybrit want to get in with the government subsidies, and as a strategy they are pushing a more optimistic time table. The first buildings however have yet to go up on the remote site, which is a subtle hint that there is some politics involved. 2 years to build and construct a full scale production foundry, and the wind/solar farms, and the hydrogen production facility, and the storage, and the pipelines, and so on might be just a touch unrealistic. (this is the second link you gave)
  • _hypx 4y ago
    The fact that you are trying to compare a working pilot plant with nuclear fusion shows your lack of seriousness.