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Overall doesn't aluminum consume the most energy when processing from ore vs copper steel. I remember watching aluminum production on How It's Made and the vast
by t1234s 1y ago
Overall doesn't aluminum consume the most energy when processing from ore vs copper steel. I remember watching aluminum production on How It's Made and the vast amount of coal needed to produce electricity to break the aluminum out of molten bauxite ore.
- philipkglass 1y agoYes, aluminum is more energy-intensive to produce, ton for ton, than copper or steel. But copper and steel still take less energy to recycle than to produce from ore so they too are worthwhile to recycle.