American Steel

3% of US GDP is ~$423 Billion dollars and growing. Billions wasted every year on low quality steel that rusts away into nothing. Billions that could be invested in converting conventional steel into sustainable steel (stainless).

My plan to revitalize the American Steel industry and transform our national infrastructure:

Step 1: Subsidize the steel industry by creating "sustainable steel" credits / "steel bonds" and making them available to businesses, consumers and investors. The purpose of these credits is to reduce the purchase cost of stainless steel; thereby equalizing, and making it competitive with conventional steel.

Step 2: Adjust legislation to mandate the use of sustainable steel in all government sponsored infrastructure projects.

Step 3: Use the billions saved by using sustainable steel and the profits from maturing steel bonds to pay back the subsidies.

Eventually the majority of steel used in construction and consumer products is American stainless steel. 100% recyclable, lasts virtually forever, ensures that our infrastructure endures; while simultaneously modernizing and revitalizing the US steel industry.

Please see the following link for comprehensive info on Stainless Steel:
http://www.ssina.com/faq/index.html

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[FeelFreeToArgue]

This may simply be a version of planned obsolescence applied to construction.

Are the tensile strengths etc. all the same. Nothing about the process makes it weaker? For all I know, it may make it stronger, just curious.

Stainless lasts that long, eh?

What is the difference in cost?

[neotoy]

@FeelFreeToArgue Tensile strengths are comparable, although that's really more of an engineering issue. Stainless steel is by definition minimum of 10.5% chromium. Yet by adding more carbon it's possible to create exceptionally hard and strong stainless steel.

The first stainless steel created by humans is still around, if that gives you any idea how long it lasts. The only estimate I've heard clocks in at around 300K years.

Cost depends on Life Cycle Costing (LCC) or short term analysis.

[neotoy]

@FeelFreeToArgue

MEPS - WORLD STAINLESS STEEL PRICES ($US/tonne) $1996

MEPS - WORLD CARBON STEEL PRICES ($US/tonne) $576

So stainless is about 3.4x more expensive. But when you factor in the LCC, depending on the application, it can actually cost considerably less long term.

[manicmetropolis]

Glad to see you back doing these vids my friend. Brilliant ideas I must say.

[neotoy]

@manicmetropolis Thank you sir.

[dangerjuices]

heavy metal?

[FeelFreeToArgue]

@neotoy Wow, I was expecting the difference to be A LOT more.