Technology

Known as flash ironmaking, the method “can complete the ironmaking process in just three to six seconds...in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nonferrous Metals in November.

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According to calculations by Zhang and his colleagues, the new technology could improve the energy use efficiency of China’s steel industry by more than one-third. As it eliminates the need for coal entirely, it would also enable the steel industry to achieve the coveted goal of “near-zero carbon dioxide emissions”, Zhang’s team added.

This is great news!

this is a massive boost, could very well revolutionize the world. the sum of small quantitative changes leads to qualitative changes, and this is no small quantitative change.

Professor Hong Yong Sohn from the University of Utah created this process, tested it, and had it working in 2017. He literally wrote the book on this technology and published it nearly two years ago.