18 Oct
2025
18 Oct
'25
5:14 p.m.
On Sat, 2025-10-18 at 21:24 +0000, Martin Bishop wrote:
the headline closure a year ago was the Port Talbot
blast furnaces -
reputedly to be replaced by electric arc furnaces
Good luck keeping them going with solar and wind. When the electricity
stops and the mill freezes, about all you can do is scrap it and build
a new one.
And when the electricity is occasionally working, its price is three
times what they pay in France or Finland.