A New Mining Ship Sucks Metals Off The Seafloor. Is That A Good Idea? | Big Business
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A New Mining Ship Sucks Metals Off The Seafloor. Is That A Good Idea? | Big Business
All Comments (21)
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This honestly sounds like it would just obliterate the ecosystems on the seabed. And I guarantee one of the reasons corporations would want to pursue this is because of how little we'll be able to see the damage because it's so far away and so deep.
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When has a company ever been honest when publishing results of research that will damage their own company?
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Dredging the ocean for car batteries is pure "green revolution".
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If I learned anything from dr Seuss, it’s that machines that look like they’re meant to cut down truffula trees probably aren’t good
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Sea scraping with trawler nets has been banned in many places because they realised taking everything from the sea floor when catching fish destroys the habitat. This seems like a techno version of the nets
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Just because it seems physically far from us doesn’t mean it doesn’t have effects on us. The ocean as a whole ecosystem needs to be intact to work correctly. If you mine all the nutrients from the bottom you damage everything else Edit: it’s amazing to see all the debate in the comments
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I work at an aquarium that has a deep sea exhibit and those animals are collected in places we didn’t think had life.. they are for sure obliterating a lot of valuable and beautiful life. Rip isopods and deep sea octopuses. It’s just as bad as any mining anywhere.
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They going to accidentally run into a block of vibranium and get attacked by people of Atlantis. Plot so bizarre you could make a movie out of it.
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Most (to all) of these "well managed mines" are only "well managed" until the ore runs out. Then they move their assets and go bankrupt, leaving the mess their hard rock mining created to be the responsibility of the communities left in the region. The locale is also left with a sudden unemployment problem that has its own set of spinoff problems. It's infuriating to see complex problems reduced to such "good vs. evil" sides.
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For every one company or government that's being "transparent" to the public about having been doing this, there are probably at least 5 who are secretly doing the same.
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Why do we not filter out the sedement further and use that? instead of dumping back? And will there be a "must examine" a nodule that is bigger than usual? in case there is a preserved enitre fossil?
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I would love it if you could do a follow up video about this.
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Let's be real, once these companies figure out the balance on the cost, because that's what it really comes down to, it will be done in commercial scale, any environmental damage would be collateral damage and no one will be able to stop them, I am thankful that they at least seems to be environmentally friendly as possible but whether they can commit to that in a long run, that's where the real fight is, nations need to form international laws to heavily regular deep sea mining.
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Crazy part is it took millions of years to make and it’s only gonna take decades for us to use it all and be gone 🌚
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Greatly balanced video showing all sides of the story! Very well done!
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Is the energy really renewable if we're using rocks that exist in limited supply in hard to reach places?
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On soft sediment sea bottoms extruding rocks are often the only places for marine life that need hard surfaces to live on. The animals that live in the sediment can live in the mud ,but if the machine sucks upp the top layers also these may be at risk of death / damage also. This technique feels like a variant of bottom trolling ,witch also destroy and disturb the stationary sea bed when the bottom part of the net scapes the bottom.
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I love how the CEO called the sea floor a "void zone" wich it is not. The ocean floor isn't all the same depth. Consult a 5th grade text book it will explain the depth zones in the ocean and what to expect to live there. There is even a full color picture diagram for those who are to slow.
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I got a feeling this will do more harm than good. And by the time this company realizes this, it's going to be too late.
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u have to make autonomous harvesters every once in a while someone picks up the cargo and replaces the battery, dont exchange all that water and sediment keep it on the sea floor
