vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 16 hours agoThe aluminum sector isn't moving to the U.S. despite tariffs — due to one key reasonwww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down10
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minus-squarePoloniousmonk@autistics.lifelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·16 hours ago@vegeta I can’t see. What’s the reason? Lack of bauxite would be the obvious one.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 hours agoWith aluminum smelting its not just heat needed like iron/steel smelting, but electricity needed to employ Lorentz forces to separate the aluminum from everything else.
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I can’t see. What’s the reason?
Lack of bauxite would be the obvious one.
With aluminum smelting its not just heat needed like iron/steel smelting, but electricity needed to employ Lorentz forces to separate the aluminum from everything else.
Power costs.