Steel’s Future Starts With Demand, Scrap, And Electricity, Not Hydrogen

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardJun 5, 2026, 12:44 pm350 ptsTop
Steel keeps getting framed as a hydrogen problem because hydrogen gives the sector a single shiny lever. Replace coal with hydrogen, keep making new iron, plug it into an electric arc furnace, and declare victory somewhere around the ribbon-cutting ceremony. It is an attractive story for governments, incumbent…

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