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References
[1] https://www.resolve.ngo/docs/mar_technol_soc_j_45_28a.pdf
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[5] https://www.isa.org.jm/exploration-contracts/polymetallic-nodules
[6] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2017/12/the-clarion-clipperton-zone
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28 Comments
Clipperton is a Mexican posession and our country should kick the french out of it
Well if one thing that has been learned is clear cut in a forest is extremely detrimental, and never recovers.
Because there is a diversified lifeforms down and around there. If they didn't harvest all, and left alternating sections, and left areas of diversified populated areas alone. That would allow life to continue to exist.
why not just use underwater bulldozers and pile it up and Then scoop up the pile
Very informative, occurred to me what about using magnets to attract the medals without raking across the surface and floating the materials to the surface so the sludge isn't created? Would need to understand how this would impact life but theory wise seems perhaps better that scrapping and pumping?
I think we are alot better off sticking to fossil fuel than making negligent life changing policies and attempts to mine these questionable minerals to fulfill a utopian liberal extremists dream
stealing from the earth comes with consequences. History tells us this. This planet is doomed!!!!!
Maganese.. 😆
they must not have columns in ireland..
Mine the Moon and Planet Mars! No adverse environmental effect. Just send drone mining machines.
I never thought metal was renewable, but it must be since government tells us it is, it's believable.
No mining the sea floor, time to get in solar system to get those metals, leave ocean eco's alone
At least this me feel better about my nodules investment thats been down -90% 😂
We’ll keep stripping and stripping down bits of the earth until it stops yielding enough to carry the consumptive population. Then people will die off and the remaining will have to spend a lot more energy on recycling to keep any kind of modern-ish living standard.
Also, the green energy transition using current solar, wind and lithium battery tech is not just laughably psychotic, but it is failing massively and returning its greatest adherents to pre-industrial levels.
Europe is going to be living like the Congo pretty soon, and carbon emissions will RISE because they’ll be burning coal again.
STOP DESTROYING NATURE FOR PROFIT !!!
Can't help yourselves ay😡friggin leave them there🖕🏾they belong to the earth not humans🖕🏾
I wonder how those zones line up with the global current?
GREAT WAY TO SCREWUP THE OCEAN SOME MORE👎👎& how will they dispose of the CAR PACK BATTERIES when they die throw them back into the water
What will we do with the wast it leaves once we are done with them? If plastic is the example of what we'll do once they are used then lets just leave them where they are.
Hold on, if the metals are in the water, couldn’t there be a way to get it out of the water?
Save our oceans! Space Mining is the key!
Would magnets work?
Electric future isn't the answer
Easier to go to space and bring back materials than ocean mining
Let's destroy the ocean floor by mining , to make batteries ,Liberals are idiots. Let's create induction recycling generators so we don't have to.
I say world has to be restarted again and for humans to base there ideas and thoughts on anything that's to benefit everything , in this most one of a kind place we live on. We really needed to start earlier GOD bless you all.
If man can touch it on Earth, it will make a mess. The scale of what we need over the next 2500 years means we need to look to the asteroid belt for minerals. Until then, we have to perfect using what we have and stop fighting over who has control over a spec of dirt.
Nice video. Certainly a better way to mine these metals than to have children in the Congo work all day in dangerous conditions for a dollar just to satisfy our materialistic desires.