Friday, April 25, 2025

FIRST NEW STEEL PLANT IN CA IN 50 YEARS

By Bob Walsh

 

Giant mirrors reflect light onto a tower at the Ivanpah CSP plant in California.

Fields of mirrors reflect sunlight onto two of three receivers at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojace Desert

 

A steel plant is being started up in the vicinity of Mojave, CA.  It will melt steel scrap into new construction steel, I-beams and suchlike.  It will use mostly-exclusively "green power," presumably from the huge solar energy plant in the area, which has otherwise been a miserable failure.  This does not mean that heavy industry is returning to CA in any meaningful degree, but it isn't nothing either.

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