{"id":509,"date":"2025-08-27T02:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.sciencepicker.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2025-08-27T02:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:02:51","slug":"read-this-atlantic-report-how-futuristic-batteries-may-come-from-deep-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/read-this-atlantic-report-how-futuristic-batteries-may-come-from-deep-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Read this Atlantic report \u2013 How futuristic batteries may come from deep oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No one can deny this \u2013 a more sustainable future will be a battery-powered one. Renewables are as reliable as the weather, without batteries to store energy. To build the batteries, we will need to slow down the climate crisis that comes with its own costs. Wil S. Hylton, an American Journalist and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine,\u00a0writes in\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em> that the world is self-assured to start mining the ocean\u2019s deepest depths before we have even had a chance to know what might be lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the thing that you need to understand: to make the batteries that power our EV\u2019s or electric vehicles, laptops, and smartphones, we require cobalt and other metals. Five of the world\u2019s tech giant, Google, Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and Tesla are accused in a suit\u00a0filed this month\u00a0alleging that the giants are responsible for the deaths of children working as labor in cobalt mining industries<\/strong> in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Most of the metal is currently found in Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These giants, along with environmental and human rights activists, are gravely looking for alternatives. A new alternative is emerging now! The deepwater plains are rich in metals such as cobalt<\/strong>, copper, manganese, and nickel and could be used to power the next device on your Wishlist. Wil S. Hylton says why the United Nations is preparing to deploy the largest mining operation in the world\u2019s history and what could happen after the long-awaited Mining Code for international waters is finally approved in 2020. One thing for sure is that a new undersea mining industry<\/strong> might help us in moving towards a greener future on land, but at what cost in the ocean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Wil S. Hylton\u00a0writes?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The harmful\nimpacts of burning fossil fuels and land-based mining<\/strong> are beyond debate.\nBut the cost of looting the ocean is something impossible to know. What kind of\ncreatures are yet to be found on the deepwater plains? How many essential\ncures? Is there any way to calculate the landscape value we, virtually, don\u2019t\nknow anything about? Of course, the world is full of uncertain choices, but the\ndisparity between options is seldom so stark \u2013 the climatic change crisis and poor\nlabor on the one hand, incalculable risk and potential on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wil S. Hylton<\/strong>, so gruesomely describes that people seem to be paying more attention to the crap we put into the ocean lately, alarmed by details of whales and coral glut on plastic \u201clike Twinkies\u201d. But we Have not spent as much time giving thought to the question of what we are willing to excavate up from its depths. There are no easy and satisfying answers when it comes to how to measure the risks and rewards of a rising industry, but\u00a0Wil S. Hylton\u2019s story<\/strong>\u00a0is a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No one can deny this \u2013 a more sustainable future will be a battery-powered one. Renewables are as reliable as the weather, without batteries to store energy. To build the batteries, we will need to slow down the climate crisis that comes with its own costs. Wil S. Hylton, an American Journalist and a contributing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}