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tommiegannert on Feb 26, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Xkcd: Greenhouse Effect

> E.g. how do you reach the necessary temps in a blast furnace without melting your heating element?

Induction heating? As long as some ferromagnetic material has a higher melting temperature than what you want to melt, this seems solvable.

walleeee on Feb 26, 2024 [–]

Thanks, good point. It looks like induction furnaces are already in wide use, though they have some tradeoffs.

By the way, I like your writing on your site.

tommiegannert on Feb 28, 2024 | [–]

> By the way, I like your writing on your site.

Oh, thank you!

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