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Emissions-Free Aluminium: Which Technologies are Changing Everything

Aluminium is a lightweight metal with a tonne of different uses: from aircraft, to buildings, to drink cans. And most important from my perspective is that it’s used in a number of technologies related to the energy transition. These include: electricity networks, battery packs, solar power and electric vehicle chassis. Demand for these technologies is projected to increase enormously over the coming decades, and aluminium production will have to increase along with it. Unfortunately, aluminium production is also responsible for more than a gigaton of CO2 globally in 2021, nearly 3% of total global emissions. Since we’re going to need aluminium as a part of the transition, we can’t exactly stop producing it. That means we need to find ways of producing it without the CO2. Fortunately, engineers are figuring out ways of doing just that, and in this video I’ll explore what technologies we’ll use to eliminate emissions from aluminium production. Bookmarks: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Aluminium vs Aluminum 01:14 Alumina Refining Process 03:41 Aluminium Recycling 05:11 Demand for Aluminium 05:31 Electricity Usage in Aluminium Production 07:53 Smelter Technologies 09:37 Anode Technologies 10:49 Refinery Technologies 11:37 Outro Related videos: Wind turbine videos    • Blades vs Wings: Wind Turbine Technol...      • Discover the Surprising Science Behin...      • Are Vertical Axis Wind Turbines Better?   Thermal energy storage    • Solar Power at Night using Concentrat...      • Building Blocks for Energy Storage: M...      • Thermal Energy Storage Tour with Stie...   The Engineering with Rosie team is: Rosemary Barnes: presenter, producer, writer Kevin Irman: research, calculations, assistant editor Javi Diez: editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/javierdie... David Hodgson: writing, research If you would like to help develop the Engineering with Rosie channel, you could consider joining the Patreon community, where there is a chat community (and Patreon-only Discord server) about topics covered in the videos and suggestions for future videos and production quality improvements.   / engineeringwithrosie   Or for a one-off contribution you can support by buying a coffee ☕️ here — https://www.buymeacoffee.com/engwithr...