Iron under fire

Gary Neal
2 min readNov 19, 2020

Rust, restore and repeat

Iron Fuel Cycle
The iron fuel cycle used to generate C02-free energy

The Swinkel Family Brewers of the Netherlands, in conjunction with the Metal Power consortium are using an innovative way of burning iron powder as fuel. If you grind iron powder very fine, much like flour, it burns very easily at high temperatures (1800° C, 3272° F). This produces a tremendous amount of energy which can then be used to drive steam turbines and produce electricity. The process is carbon…

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Gary Neal

Retired taxi driver, creative writer, experimental poet, computer enthusiast, web design and learning to program