Ryan Dezember
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42 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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Of course, that relationship has frayed very seriously in this administration, and the Canadian production is being tariffed.
So there's not a ton of U.S.
production.
In fact, the U.S.
produces about as much primary aluminum by weight as the amount of aluminum cans that we throw away into landfills every year.
Well, the smelters, they're there, but the power costs too much.
About 40% of the cost of making primary aluminum is electricity.
There's also a lot of natural gas involved.
So it just doesn't work at that price.
So aluminum executives and analysts say we should use the metal that's already here in our trash cans.
When you recycle aluminum, you make something called secondary aluminum.
And it's a lot cheaper because you're not causing a chemical reaction to create the metal.
It's more of a sorting and melting situation.
So it uses a lot less electricity.
It's feasible.
The plants can be built in a couple of years as opposed to five or six or more.
The prices are like in the hundreds of millions cheaper.
as opposed to several billion dollars for a smelter.
So they say that's really the way to go.
You need primary aluminum production and the purity involved for a few things, some military, some high-tech applications.
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