Induction Heater

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Induction furnaces have their serious shortcomings though with their lack of refining capacity. They and electric arc furnaces available to industry can't reach the higher temperatures needed for modern process reactions to take place. We still require blast furnaces for steel-making and the chemical process for extracting impurities and producing molten iron remains the same despite increasing efficiency with modern technologies and carbon capture, we still NEED coal for this reason.

Fact of life, without fossil fuels such as coal and without steel we're utterly screwed.

The electricity can produce extreme high temperatures. The advantage of Induction heating is more controllable transfer of amount of heat energy - unlike fossil fuels such as coal. Extracting Impurities progress are simple - if we design the furnace [if there is such thing] with function similar to the distillation. The elements of periodic table have their different boiling points. Sulfur, in its boiling point, can be extract out of fine dust of Iron, due to their difference of boiling points.

For your information, there is steel producing electric arc furniture - which means, the fossil fuels are not necessary to push the temperatures to melting point of Iron. However, carbon is vital to make the traditional steel out of Iron.

They and electric arc furnaces available to industry can't reach the higher temperatures needed for modern process reactions to take place.

It depends on the furnaces' design of structure and its ability to contain the extreme high temperatures.

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Induction heating is totally useless for most consumer applications, as the usual behavior for many of the cited consumer goods involve insistence on rapid power up and sudden power down.

For example, an induction heated stove top would not last terribly long unless built out the correct materials, because the sudden temperature shifts caused by, let's say, ending the act of cooking a meal would cause the metal to undergo limited induction hardening.

So any stove top, for example, would entail different materials and better manufacturing processes.

In other words, to smith the sword out of the Iron - the impurities are necessary to increase its strength - but result the brittle. The sword goes under the progress of heat treating [which requires naturally, fossil fuels] to produce the tensile in the sword?

That kind of metallurgy which Induction heating can't produce [correct me if I'm wrong?]

Nothing so far has managed to meet or beat the energy storage capabilities and simplistic structure of fossil fuels, where even marginally longer and more complex molecules require different engines to take advantage of such (diesel engines are heavier, have different timings and endure different conditions than a gasoline engine, for example).

And there is another reason of usage of fossil fuel are cheap - and profit.

There is alternate energy within grasp of our current technology - like solar energy, RTG, rechargeable batteries, for example. Surprisingly, fossil fuel based vehicles are still producing in USA. Perhaps because there is millions of tonnes of crude oil available to be profit. One of reasons I don't like economy - it's nothing but man-made concept like religion.

Anyway - I think humanity should invest into non-pollution producing technologies like Induction heating, solar energy and etc.