Boston Metal: Meet the firm seeking to revolutionise green steelmaking

Michael Holder
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Credit: Boston Metal

Steelmaking was long regarded as hard to decarbonise - but a US firm claims to have developed a novel process that requires only electricity

Steel is everywhere. It forms the frame of our cars, ships, and planes. It's more than likely in the fork you ate your dinner with, the radiators you heat your home with, and the very foundations of the...

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