People are starting to talk about deep sea mining. There are minerals down there - cobalt, manganese, nickel & more - potentially useful for creating a cleaner, greener electrified world. But taking them would cause huge damage to one of Earth's last great wildernesses. So what do we know about this trade-off? What lives down there? And should we cross this line? For Fully Charged, I went to the Natural History Museum in London to investigate:
Ocean Mining: A Gamble with Our Planet's Last Frontier? 🔋
Five thousand metres beneath the ocean's surface lie potatoe-shaped polymetallic nodules, containing millions of tonnes of critical minerals used in the tech...YouTube
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in reply to Helen Czerski • • •Which is the lesser of evils:
ocean floor vs asteroids
or war with China?
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