2008/07/19

Addendum: Steel production

Some shocking steel production figures of 2007:


Wikipedia (easily readable)
International Iron and Steel Institute (source for Wikipedia article; has monthly 2008 data)

Sven Ortmann
at 19.7.08

3 comments:

  1. China has a lot of factors pushing for it -- slave labor, complicit foreign plutocrats, etc.

    I'll have to look into the numbers further before taking a usefully detailed position, though.

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  2. Slave labour is mostly inaccurate. It's just close to the very poor worker's situation of 19th century Europe, the conditions that its ideology wanted to avoid.

    Their weak spots are a lack of indigenous R&D capacity, lack of machine building capacity and lack of domestic non-food raw materials.

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  3. Dear Sven, just one comment for the whole blog: great. I'll read ypu on, keep going!

    Paolo S Trieste, Italy

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