Ben Eltham
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Taxpayers are forking out $2.5b for Rio Tinto's electricity bill. Should they? (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. Tomago, a large aluminium smelter in the Hunter Valley, is the single largest user of electricity in the state of New South Wales. Aluminium smelting is incredibly electricity intensive. Because the process involves injecting huge direct currents into a bath of aluminium oxide and liquid cryolite to create solid ingots, aluminium is sometimes called “solid electricity”. Unsurprisingly, aluminium smelters are extremely vulnerable to rising who
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