Hillbilly pipe dream becomes technology nightmare
Mainstream engineers anticipate low-cost, geographically dispersed steel plants with explosive process using hydrogen, not coal, for clean reduction of iron ore
Flash furnaces for fresh steel paired with electric arc furnaces (above) for scrap will keep metallurgical coal in the ground
Alberta’s pig-brained race to the past is crashing into rapid technology progress in the smelting of iron ore without the need for coal, Australian beauty queens, or hillbilly miners.
Australian cutie-pie Gina Rinehart
The mainstream engineering world sees overwhelming benefits in the word-wide adoption of “flash” ironmaking, a process developed in the United States and now being commercialized in China.
Hillbilly dreams of Crowsnest Pass town council go up in smoke