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How the world was welded
4 Jul 2026
open.substack.com

Let's all join together, now...

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The Eerie Story of Low Background Steel
27 Jun 2026
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Bandits are plundering metal from old shipwrecks, in search, it seems for the world's rarest, and strangest, metal.

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Frontier | Winston (@frontiermap)
16 Jun 2026
substack.com

The steel almost nobody can make. Grain-oriented electrical steel, or GOES, is the material at the heart of every large transformer core. It is a silicon-iron alloy at roughly 3% silicon, rolled into sheets 0.18 to 0.35 millimeters thick, with the crystalline grains forced into a specific orientation called the Goss texture, named after Norman Goss, who patented the process in 1934.

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Turbine Tuesday: Forging
30 May 2026
open.substack.com

The lost art and Turbine economics

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Why the rebuild depends on metallurgy, apprenticeship, and one mill in Pennsylvania.

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InventWood just cracked the code on something that sounds like science fiction. They've figured out how to make wood stronger than steel by restructuring it at the molecular level. This isn't your typical engineered lumber story. We're talking about a material that delivers 50% more tensile strength than steel while weighing dramatically less. The Maryland

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Electra has raised $76.3 million to clean up the dirty ironmaking industry, TechCrunch has learned. The startup has developed a novel method of using

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Discover the 'four-horse race' among leading manufacturers to decarbonized steel their operations. Explore the strategies and technologies.

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Low-background steel
27 Aug 2022
chemistryworld.com

Post-nuclear steel is a little bit radioactive, so for some specialist jobs we need to find a source of steel from before the bomb