Julia Atwood

Research Director, Sightline Climate · 1 appearance on the record.

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Holding a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Cambridge, she specializes in industrial decarbonization, carbon capture and storage, and low-carbon manufacturing. She previously served as Head of Advanced Materials at BloombergNEF before joining Sightline Climate to oversee its market intelligence research team.

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3 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not yet assessed how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Julia argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Atwood: Electric arc furnaces can easily run on intermittent renewables
“Electric arc furnaces can use intermittent power, so they're great if you just plug them into wind and solar, because you're making the steel in batches.”
Julia Atwood Aug 31, 2022 ▶ 7:35 The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel

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Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2050
Atwood: Green hydrogen could be the cheapest steelmaking method by 2050
“The simplest way to put it is that we think by twenty-fifty, making steel with hydrogen could be the cheapest way to do it.”
Julia Atwood Aug 31, 2022 ▶ 18:05 The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2050
Atwood: Global steel production will peak around 3 billion tons by 2050
“We make about two billion tons of steel today, every year. We think by twenty-fifty that's going to peak and level out at about three billion tons.”
Julia Atwood Aug 31, 2022 ▶ 7:51 The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel
Opinion
Atwood: Material efficiency in steel will only yield a 10-20% improvement
“I don't think we're actually going to make a lot of things better, not enough to make a real difference. I think there you're thinking about like a 10 or 20% improvement.”
Julia Atwood Aug 31, 2022 ▶ 5:19 The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel
Assertion Supported
Atwood: Electric arc furnaces can easily run on intermittent renewables
“Electric arc furnaces can use intermittent power, so they're great if you just plug them into wind and solar, because you're making the steel in batches.”
Julia Atwood Aug 31, 2022 ▶ 7:35 The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel
Assertion Supported
Atwood: Hydrogen can be used in some existing steel plants
“Part of the beauty of hydrogen is that you can use it in some plants that are existing today, so it's really just a switch in what kind of gas you're pumping in”
Julia Atwood Aug 31, 2022 ▶ 13:04 The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel
Assertion Supported
Atwood: Steel achieves an 80% to 90% global recycling rate
“Compared to plastics, where you're recycling maybe 10% of it, steel is like 80 or 90% recycled.”
Julia Atwood Aug 31, 2022 ▶ 6:59 The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel Aug 31, 2022 6m
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