[TheForge] Aluminum vs. Aluminium

[Dave Smucker]

It is Blacksmiths that are fuel with beer :)  An interesting thing about aluminum is that if you have a location with excessive electrical capacity one way to ship that electrical energy is to convert it to aluminum.  You have to build the smelter, have power generation and bring in the refined alumina (AlO2) to smelt and ship out the ingots.  Being done today in the middle east from oil / gas and in Iceland, Norway and other locations from hydro.

From Beer Cans to electrical - just need a way to reverse smelt the metal.

By the way the other big market for used aluminum cans is in steel production - shredded cans are added to the molten steel to deox or kill the steel.  The aluminum grapes the oxygen and turns it into AlO2 which comes to the surface and can be removed with other flux.

Dave Smucker
Brasstown, NC

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From that same link:
"Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out half of that can’s volume of gasoline. Nearly 75 percent of all aluminum produced is still in use today."

Okay, so how can I fuel an electric car on beer cans?

Bruce
NJ

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Robert Oppenheimer <oppie51 at verizon.net>
wrote:

> Interesting aside on aluminum manufacture and recycling.
> ​<snip>
> Recycling aluminum saves 90% of the energy used to refine new aluminum 
> from ore. http://www.aluminum.org/sustainability/aluminum-recycling
>
>
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