Roskill: Green magnesium moving to commercial reality; China’s dominance under threat?
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2020
Then came the rapid ascent of production in China and with it a flood of low-cost magnesium. By the early 2000s production in France, Italy and Norway had ended. Based on silicothermic reduction of magnesium oxide, the Pidgeon process is cheap but has a high energy demand: 366 MJ/kg Mg , compared to other common metals.
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