smelter

Does your incoming metal to your smelter have all the same properties as it did in the 1960s?

The largest power plant in Iceland (a hydro one) is entirely purpose-built solely to power a smelter [2].

There's nothing inherently that difficult about an aluminum smelter matching its highest production rates to when electricity is cheapest.

It was sent back to the smelter to be reprocessed, but the temporary shortage caused real problems with their delivery schedules.

It seems that the Al smelter generates lots of CO2, so greenhouse effects might just be moved closer to hydropower plants...

It's only significant for certain kinds of heavy manufacturing; if you run a steel mill or aluminum smelter, it matters a lot.

It's not reversible in the car, but it is reversible in an aluminum smelter.

It's a big load but nothing like a smelter or even a small factory.

Looks like treasury was fairly firmly against subsidising the smelter from an economic standpoint.

The robotic car factory still pays the robotic smelter who pays the robotic miner.

Or do you need to operate a smelter and only buy raw ore?

An aluminium smelter uses 1GW+ whether you like it or not.

"Recharging" this "battery" (it's more of a fuel cell) means shipping a 220lb module back to a far-away aluminum smelter and reforging it anew.

> The batteries are "charged" not from the electrical grid, but from hydroelectric power generated at Alcoa's smelter in Baie-Comeau, Que., Tzidon said.

"This inert silicon dioxide might be recycled back to a silicon smelter or used locally in land fill." Edited: "A restricting factor here is that the SiO2 oxidation product remains with the silicon and partially restricts its subsequent oxidation." did you even read the article?