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> 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.




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.


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

Oh, thank you!




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