Inside The Swedish Factory That Could Be The Future Of Green Steel

Rob Jackson, Fast Company
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 5:00am

In an excerpt from his new book, Rob Jackson explores what it will take to decarbonize one of the world’s dirtiest industries. Diamonds are forever, except when they’re drill bits. The giant drill—20 feet long and mirroring a device in a Bond villain’s lair—griiinds amid a flood of sparks, flames, and molten iron gushing from the bottom of the newly punctured blast furnace into the torpedo-shaped rail cars a story below us.

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