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China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Rolling in the Deep

The Little Red Podcast

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The Implications of Deep Sea Mining for the Sea Bed

The industry is not in a place where any of this is commercially viable yet. To be commercially viable, you would have to collect 360 wet tons of nodules per hour for 250 days per year. The science is still not 100% sure how all of that would work even. You're like, would it really release a lot of carbon into the atmosphere? We're not really sure because it's so far down.

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