Tag: steelmaking
“Hot Blocks” Thermal Energy Storage Startup Nails Down $550 Million More To Chase Fossil Fuels Away
The US energy storage startup Antora Energy is scaling up with a $550 million assist from leading investors.
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Cement’s Future Is Less Portland, Not One Magic Cement
Cement decarbonization attracts miracle stories. One company has a new binder. Another has a carbon-negative aggregate. Someone else has an electrochemical process, a hydrogen kiln, a low-carbon limestone route, a supplementary cementitious material, a recycled cement process or a carbon-capture retrofit. Some of these ideas are useful. Some will become … [continued]
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Boston Metal’s Current Evidence Points To Critical Metals, Not Green Steel
Boston Metal’s public story has shifted in a way that makes the company more credible in the near term, but less sweeping as a green-steel story. The company is still built around molten oxide electrolysis, or MOE, an electrically driven process for reducing metal oxides without coal. The near-term commercial … [continued]
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Steel Needs A Route Transition, Not A Hydrogen Story
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
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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