2026-09-18 · frontiermap.substack.com

Electric furnaces make 30% of the world's steel, 46% of the EU's and 71% of the US's, every tonne burns through a graphite column that takes half a year to produce, and battery anodes are made from the same coke in the same furnaces.
2026-09-18 · jordanwtaylor2.substack.com

Let's all join together, now...
2026-09-01 · fictiv.com

Learn how metal stamping works, including processes, tooling, materials, tolerances, and DFM best practices for high-volume production.
2026-08-22 · arstechnica.com

“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”...
2026-07-29 · open.substack.com

Heat Exchangers: Designing the titans that hold up our world.
2026-07-27 · open.substack.com

But So Are Converters, Inverters, and MMCs!
2026-07-04 · open.substack.com

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2026-06-27 · open.substack.com

Bandits are plundering metal from old shipwrecks, in search, it seems for the world's rarest, and strangest, metal.
2026-06-16 · 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…
2026-05-30 · open.substack.com

The lost art and Turbine economics
★ 2026-04-25 · open.substack.com

Why the rebuild depends on metallurgy, apprenticeship, and one mill in Pennsylvania.
2025-08-08 · yankodesign.com

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%…
2025-01-03 · techcrunch.com

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
2023-04-14 · energymonitor.ai

Discover the 'four-horse race' among leading manufacturers to decarbonized steel their operations. Explore the strategies and technologies.
2022-08-27 · 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