Steel and concrete are climate change’s hard problem. Can we solve it?

By Adam Vaughan With temperatures reaching 1300 °C, making steel is a hot and dirty business Wolfram Schroll/Industriefotograf “DANGER. No unauthorized entry. Hot rolling in progress.” If anything, the sign beneath the dirty hunk of industrial machinery underplays things. When the 11-tonne slab of metal I’ve been watching emerges from the furnace, heated to 1300°C, … Read more