Deep-Sea Mining for Rare Earth Metals Could Help Solve the Climate Crisis/technologies/businessofengineering/b/blog/posts/deep-sea-mining-for-rare-earth-metals-could-help-solve-the-climate-crisisThe seabed is loaded with trillions of polymetallic nodules, an amalgamation of cobalt, nickel, manganese and other rare earth metals that could help with the climate crisis. (Image credit: The Metals Company ) Three miles below the Pacific Ocea...en-USTelligent Community 12RE: Deep-Sea Mining for Rare Earth Metals Could Help Solve the Climate Crisishttps://community.element14.com/technologies/businessofengineering/b/blog/posts/deep-sea-mining-for-rare-earth-metals-could-help-solve-the-climate-crisisSun, 03 Oct 2021 15:56:29 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:e3b2796a-dfcf-4ba7-9cb8-b69944dd0a74colporteur1<p>The title of this articled pulled me in. The word mining solving a problem is possible but at what cost? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#39;m currently reading Brad Thor&#39;s fiction novel Black Ice. It expresses concern about countries that explore for resources with little regard for environmental impact. I was happy to read the commentary at the bottom of the story by scientists about impacts but sad that it wasn&#39;t more evident in the video.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=21996&AppID=96&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Deep-Sea Mining for Rare Earth Metals Could Help Solve the Climate Crisishttps://community.element14.com/technologies/businessofengineering/b/blog/posts/deep-sea-mining-for-rare-earth-metals-could-help-solve-the-climate-crisisSat, 02 Oct 2021 18:30:47 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:e3b2796a-dfcf-4ba7-9cb8-b69944dd0a74DAB0<p>Big claim unsubstantiated in the provided video.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I agree that we could potentially find large amounts of harvestable metals on the ocean floor, but it would take a significant expenditure in fossil fuels to make the harvesting equipment, transport it to a work site and then collect and return the metals for processing.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes, you can potentially make large numbers of batteries with the metals, but at what cost?</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=21996&AppID=96&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">