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chuckie512 t1_ixff0cl wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh

Electric arc is the way of the future for steel. It's well understand and there's many designs already in use for it.

Except, the cost of conversion is less than the cost of just continuing to pollute, so US steel's board would literally be able to be held personally liable to the shareholders to change.

This is the current US system.

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[deleted] t1_ixfw8mh wrote

I'm not really sure I understand the furnace type being a pollutant. US Steel uses natural gas furnaces. That isn't what is causing the pollution.

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chuckie512 t1_ixfwo6c wrote

Electric arc furnaces at least can be fully turned off during idle periods, and during inversions. The current furnaces have to hot idle.

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[deleted] t1_ixgf58n wrote

Still not really seeing your point of the pollution that is occurring.

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chuckie512 t1_ixh9kk3 wrote

You don't see how being able to manufacture to meet demand would affect the pollution when compared to losing money anytime your plant isn't running full-steam? And how that would affect the whole supply chain?

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[deleted] t1_ixhmyil wrote

I'm honestly not even sure what you are talking about at this moment, you went from pushing electric arc as some sort of reason there is polution to something else and I can't follow.

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