POLYMETALLIC NODULES

Society has a growing need for battery metals to enable a full transition to clean energy and electric transportation.

https://deep.green/nodules/

And that means we need to find new, more responsible sources for those metals. We believe that polymetallic nodules are the source with by far the least environmental and social impacts.

Polymetallic nodules, also called manganese nodules, sit on top of the seabed can be collected without drilling or having to move rocks or dirt. They are made of almost 100% usable minerals, compared to ores mined from the land which have increasingly low yields (often below 1%). This means that nodule collection has 99% less solid waste compared to land-based mining, and generates no toxic tailings.

ESSENTIAL BATTERY METALS — COBALT, NICKEL, COPPER, MANGANESE — ARE CONTAINED IN POLYMETALLIC NODULES THAT SIT ON THE DEEP OCEAN FLOOR.

We plan to lift them to the surface, take them to shore and process them with near-zero solid waste and no tailings; no deforestation, and with careful attention not to harm the integrity of the deep ocean ecosystem.

On a global scale, using ocean nodules to create 1 billion Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries will generate at least 75% less CO2 than using ores from land-based mines.

For society, sourcing base metals from these ocean nodules means no disruption to indigenous peoples or any community because the site is far offshore, in international waters, in the deep ocean, where no one lives. And unlike many existing cobalt mines, this also

means zero child labor, and much safer jobs.

If mining these is so clean, then it is easier to do in secret, and to transport the metals to another place/country for sale, without anybody knowing the origin. Any processor who is already processing these metals out of ore, could slip these nodules into their processing stream and pretend that they are from the mine. Imagine what happens to the value of the mining stock. You could use this to scam TRILLIONS of $$$$ from the world by pumping up and dumping one stock after another.

>>10353432

E. @ETheFriend · 1h

Listen:

Undersea charities.

Connect them.

TerraMar is not unique.

Blue Prosperity - Waitt

Oceans 5:- Rockefeller

LDF - DiCaprio

etc etc etc.

Why was Leonardo DiCaprio awarded by the Clinton Foundation?

For 2 million to "Oceans 5"?

This goes so much deeper.

Watch the water.

>>10353449

Here is a PDF from Blue Prosperity about making strong laws

To fence off ocean territories.

Seems to me this would be great for owners of private islands

Who want privacy and a legal framework to sue people

Who take their boats into PRIVATE OCEAN PROPERTY

And look at all the other groups that are involved…

If a territory is blocked out and no fishing is allowed there

And no transport is allowed through that block

Then the coast guards and navies have no real need

To patrol there, do they?

>>10353460

Smuggling drugs and children is much easier

When you have private areas to do your work

Because they know that you can no longer ship direct from the drug producers

You need private places totranship cargo

Pack the drugs in shipping containers

That are water tight and designed to float

At a depth of say 10 meters

Rendezvous with a sub that the satellite trackers can't see

Dump the containers overboard without stopping

The subs grab them and tow them into a private ocean

Near a private island

The containers are lifted, unpacked and shipped out in small amounts

On small boats that nobody suspects or inspects

>>10353449

When there is money moving around

They are planning something

>>10353432

Polymetallic Nodules

https://isa.org.jm/files/files/documents/eng7.pdf

NATURE OF THE MINERALS

The nodules lie on the sea-bottom sediment, generally half

buried. Some nodules are completely covered by sediment

and, in some areas, nodules have been collected even

though they are invisible on photographs. They vary greatly

in abundance. In some places they cover more than 70 percent of the bottom, the nodules touching one another.

However it is considered that, to be of economic interest,

the abundance must exceed 10 kilograms per square metre,

with an average of 15 kg/m2 over areas of several tenths of a

square kilometre. They can occur at any depth, but the

highest concentrations have been found between 4,000

and 6,000m.

>>10353636

Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-mining

Resting atop Thomas Peacock’s desk is an ordinary-looking brown rock. Roughly the size of a potato, it has been at the center of decades of debate. Known as a polymetallic nodule, it spent 10 million years sitting on the deep seabed, 15,000 feet below sea level. The nodule contains nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese — four minerals that are essential in energy storage.

“As society moves toward driving more electric vehicles and utilizing renewable energy, there will be an increased demand for these minerals, to manufacture the batteries necessary to decarbonize the economy,” says Peacock, a professor of mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an international team of researchers that has been trying to gain a better understanding the environmental impact of collecting polymetallic nodules, a process known as deep-sea mining.

The minerals found in the nodules, particularly cobalt and nickel, are key components of lithium-ion batteries. Currently, lithium-ion batteries offer the best energy density of any commercially available battery. This high energy density makes them ideal for use in everything from cellphones to electric vehicles, which require large amounts of energy within a compact space.

“Those two elements are expected to see a tremendous growth in demand due to energy storage,” says Richard Roth, director of MIT’s Materials Systems Laboratory.

While researchers are exploring alternative battery technologies such as sodium-ion batteries and flow batteries that utilize electrochemical cells, these technologies are far from commercialization.

>>10353712

Mining the Deep Sea

Mining minerals found 15,000 feet below sea level could help secure a low-carbon future, but at what cost? Researchers including Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, are racing to understand the environmental impact of deep-sea mining. CORRECTION: Clarion-Clipperton Zone footage courtesy of "The DeepCCZ Project."

>>10353583

Did you think that environmentalism was all about touchy feely things?

Good for the planet?

What about the money?

How much money could be made

By attacking one set of industries

And moving the action toanother set of industries?

And what if you could predict the future

Because you actually made it so?

And what if you could invest a little bit of money to own a big chunk of a small business

And know that this business would be rolling in cash in a few years

Because you got laws passed to destroy the competition

And send the buyers to your new company?

This goes far beyond stock market pump and dump

Herd the sheep and shear them on a regular schedule

Push the prices up and down, up and down

Trick the sheep into buying the wrong stocks again and again

>>10353668

No, it is real.

Buit talking about it is like stirring the hornet's nest

Because the left are not yet finished with making money

On their move to green energy

And I think they wanted to control space

For the next big moneymaker after that

It's always about suppression of innovation

On order to maintain control over your herd

So that the herd is making money for you

Not for themselves.

>>10353464

1)The people of this country have been played for far too long.

We have been indoctrinated into being complicit with “Their Rights” not “Our Rights” and “Our Wrongs” not “Their Wrongs”

There are 4 different sets of rules that have become the elephant in the room (cont)

2) and it must be addressed. First set for the weak, poor, or opressed. Second set for Hollywood and wealthy elite. Third set for the Political Playing Orchestra. And, the fourth set is for everyone in between including the Politicians defending of our Constitution. (cont)

3) We have watched politicians on both sides say and do the exact same things over the years, and depending on what side of the aisle they stand on, it is either applauded or condemned based solely upon party. The same people in office today were rallying for and standing (cont)

4) the exact same platform issues that this country faced 20 years ago, that our current President and the elected that stand with him are now implementing and fighting for. Yet, somehow, those big talking heads suddenly disagree with what’s on the table. (cont)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1268954021039083523.html

>>10353964

https://twitter.com/regularrachael/status/1268954021039083523

See above link for PDF and full thread

>>10353899

Owning a private house is normal

Owning a private island is NOT!