ArchitectureWeek - Puzzler Answer #65

Answers . 12 September 2001


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—The Architecture Puzzler

Created by Dave Guadagni

Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
Architecture Puzzler #65

Question

Glass takes 13 to 25 gigajoules of energy per ton to produce while copper takes 70 to 170. About how much energy would you guess is required to produce a ton of steel? Aluminum?

Answer

Steel takes about 25 to 45 gigajoules per ton to produce while aluminum takes about 6 times more, 150 to 220 gigajoules.

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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects

Early electric furnace in an American steel works.
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