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Steel Needs A Route Transition, Not A Hydrogen Story

6 min read

Steel decarbonization keeps being pulled into the wrong conversation. Call it a future hydrogen market, and the discussion moves quickly to electrolyzers, pipelines, storage caverns, offtake contracts, national hydrogen strategies, and industrial-policy speeches looking for a customer. That framing is convenient for hydrogen advocates, but it is not how the … [continued]

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Steel’s Future Starts With Demand, Scrap, And Electricity, Not Hydrogen

8 min read

Steel keeps getting framed as a hydrogen problem because hydrogen gives the sector a single shiny lever. Replace coal with hydrogen, keep making new iron, plug it into an electric arc furnace, and declare victory somewhere around the ribbon-cutting ceremony. It is an attractive story for governments, incumbent producers, electrolyzer … [continued]

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