So you want to shut down electric power plants? \u00a0Say goodbye to aluminum production in the US<\/p>\n
http:\/\/mobile.reuters.com\/article\/idUSBRE99311P20131004?irpc=932<\/p>\n
Smelting of aluminum is done with electricity using electrolysis – the process is more agreeable to being sped up or slowed down than heat smelting process for making steel. \u00a0 Canada \u00a0has an excess capacity of hydroelectric power from the dams they built by flooding the reservations of the First Nation peoples, which means that during low usage periods that power is consumed by aluminum smelter at very low cost – several of the big smelters are in the United States around the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n
Push the cost of electricity above the value of the aluminum, bankruptcy follows.<\/p>\n
The cost and availability of aluminum used in cars becomes a problem? \u00a0 Now the car business has issues trying to make cars lighter. \u00a0Hello carbon fiber!<\/p>\n
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So you want to shut down electric power plants? \u00a0Say goodbye to aluminum production in the US http:\/\/mobile.reuters.com\/article\/idUSBRE99311P20131004?irpc=932 Smelting of aluminum is done with electricity using electrolysis – the process is more agreeable to being sped up or slowed down … Continue reading