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Captawesome814 t1_ixgy4nf wrote

I mean it’s Pittsburgh - the iron city - is this shocking to everyone? Did you not know steel was an inherent part of the the local economy and culture when you decided to move here from California?

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Thoraxe474 t1_ixh7sfr wrote

Because people born here can't still want clean air and better quality of life for the home they've always lived in?

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chuckie512 t1_ixh7qs5 wrote

What percentage of Allegheny county's economy do you think is steel?

How many sick children are you willing to have support it?

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Captawesome814 t1_ixhpgpi wrote

Someone has to make steel in the world. Modern conveniences come with costs. The question is, how many sick children does it take for you to forsake your cars, tractors, appliances, bridges, buildings, and railroads?

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chuckie512 t1_ixhpwkw wrote

There's absolutely cleaner ways to make steel. US Steel is literally making it the cheapest way possible right now, and we're subsidizing them by just accepting the health issues it creates.

Remember when they promised to clean up, then said lol no?

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Captawesome814 t1_ixhqovi wrote

What is the cleaner way to make steel? I’ve worked at EAFs (which can only recycle steel, not make new pig iron) and I assure you they’re not any cleaner. You can scrub off-gasses all you want but at the end of the day iron is iron and coke is coke

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SamPost t1_ixiuc6o wrote

The cleaner way is modern, upgraded scrubbers. Like they use everywhere else in the western world. They work, but cost more to run.

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Captawesome814 t1_ixkjzqa wrote

You can’t put scrubbers on a coke furnace like a coal plant.

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SamPost t1_ixks36h wrote

Of course you can. It is the normal practice in the western world. Just google "coke scrubbers" and get educated.

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Captawesome814 t1_ixl9g9p wrote

Bro those furnaces are open hearth monsters built in the 20s for mass production of the time. You cannot

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