The 2019 Blamaro

[mssl72]

Did anyone else catch 60mins last night? There was a spot on harvesting nodules from the Pacific Ocean that contain a bunch of rare earth minerals which would supply raw materials to build among other things batteries. They were talking about how many electric car batteries they could build from the trillions of nodules they could bring up.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rare-ea...es-2019-11-17/

[danachevroletfor1967]

Yeah, I caught that story on 60 Minutes. Very interesting. What worries me somewhat is what damage could be done to the ocean floor including plants and animals that live there in the deep if all this potential harvesting goes thru.

[mssl72]

Originally Posted by danachevroletfor1967

Yeah, I caught that story on 60 Minutes. Very interesting. What worries me somewhat is what damage could be done to the ocean floor including plants and animals that live there in the deep if all this potential harvesting goes thru.

I totally agree with you. While it's a nice find, like most, it'll probably get aggressively harvested with little regard for the impact on the underwater environment. I don't want to come across as what some would describe as a "tree hugger", but I don't like seeing things get destroyed. From what the newscast said the US isn't even in the game. China has laid the most claim.