Just Have a Think | Nature's batteries at the bottom of the ocean! @JustHaveaThink | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Polymetallic Nodules. Never heard of them? Well there are trillions of them on the deepest sea beds of our oceans. Mining companies want to scoop them all up for the valuable elements they contain, like manganese, cobalt and nickel. But new research has demonstrated that those metallic constituents are causing a reaction that creates oxygen in the total absence of sunlight or photosynthesis. So...is it really a good idea to remove them?

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nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01480-8

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