The UK is trumpeting #rail200: the 200th anniversary of the railway. As @markhburton points out, that’s a bit premature: https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/113803780435711720
But I want to re-up Kris de Dekker’s lens.
If we were serious about constructing a low carbon economy, we’d acknowledge, soberly, that we have a steel problem:
“The global iron and steel industry consumes more energy and produces more carbon emissions than any other industry.”
Some notes from Kris’s excellent analysis follow…
@urlyman @markhburton
Something has to be largest.
Steel and Iron is persistent once out of the ground/furnace, and I think as electricity becomes superabundant the recycling of steel is going to reduce its contribution to CO2.
But chipping away at it is a good work.
