Quest for greener steel heats up in Sweden’s cold north
By DW
10 December 2022 |
7:33 am
The steel industry is one of the planet's biggest carbon emitters. An industry-wide project in the Swedish city of Luleå is exploring the use of hydrogen, rather than carbon-emitting coking coal, in the energy-guzzling production process.
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