smelting

But aluminum smelting can just run when the sun shines, and can be located wherever the sun is most available.

Iron smelting drove the use of coal as it was consuming so much by way of forests earlier.

Fusion Garage is not building the factories, mining and smelting the ore, nor fabricating their own silicon...

In this case, Alcoa is performing aluminum smelting in Iceland precisely because of cheaper geothermal power generation available there.

Aluminum was more expensive than gold because it could only be produced by non-electric vacuum smelting.

You are also not going to run your aluminum smelting plant for 18 hours out of the day on battery power!

In the Soviet Union they once built a iron smelting factory out in the middle of nowhere near a big iron containing mountain.

The opposite effect occurs if there is a technology which lowers mining and processing costs (such as directed solar heating and in-situ smelting).

I'd assume the most respected blacksmiths were constantly testing different metals, weapon and armor types and shapes, smelting techniques, etc.

I have yet to see Google get into Aluminum smelting, residential construction or toothbrush manufacturing.

Or iron smelting, how they leave the waste slag behind.

All that heating in the system has to go somewhere, and given the sizes of the smelting halls, it seems like it would be profitable to set some sort of system up.

I work at the smelting end rather than the "real" metallurgy part.

This "server farm to save the world" story smells like spin for a dish-washing debt service ---probably because Iceland hates aluminum smelting and fears the imported masses who'd work there.

When I was young, we wrote all our code by hand using ed in Sanskrit, printed it out and hand soldered into hardware using tools we made by smelting our own iron!".

There's some evidence that a goldsmith in Rome may have found a process for smelting aluminum: "One day a goldsmith in Rome was allowed to show the Emperor Tiberius a dinner plate of a new metal.