It is EQUALLY likely that Ukraine is shooting at itself and falsely accusing Russia. Change my mind.
Not so easy to post it all atm,
But i do 'believe' that a more modern technological version of smelting (vacuum electric gas injection) could do the job with far less (if any) anthracite. I do use anthracite, it is beautiful stuff AND amazingly clean. But i do think there are some advances in technology that could greatly update the process in cleaning recycled metals.
I just can't stand the idea of building and operating and experimenting on my private land… and some shitbag Government fuckhead walks up and starts telling me ANYTHING. I only fear, for what i might do to them.
Im totally cool with recreating some classic metal works. Add on just a modest amount of digital feedback and control… keep a lot of 'hands on' with some modest safety distance and such.
Get underway with many many little local small scale 'boutique' mom-n-pop metal works…
(if for no other reason then to divide up 'the egg basket' and minimize long distance road hauling… stuff like that.
But there should also be some innovation and extraordinary quality control producing fantastic clean and reliable metals to MAGA.
I am totally NOT worried about the climate crowd. I burn anthracite… I KNOW how clean it is, truthfully. I am talking about labor, energy and material efficiency. Scrap metals can be chromatically distilled and separated, and alloy created with fantastic precision… with AND without carbon from coal. (kek, save the coal to run the new steam engines).