Ah yes, because when you're parched, nothing screams "refreshing" like sipping on the ocean floor's finest brine cocktail 🍸🐟. Ingenious companies will now spend billions mining the abyss for water, because solving climate change directly is, like, so 2019. 🌊💸
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep-sea-desalination-pulls-drinking-water-from-the-depths/ #brinecocktail #oceanmining #climatechangeinnovation #watercrisis #absurdsolutions #HackerNews #ngated
Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths
Companies are experimenting with deep-sea tech to produce cheaper fresh water
Silicon Valley venture capitalist helps lead controversial race to start mining ocean floor
Company received a major boost in April when Trump issued an executive order asserting America’s right to mine beneath the ocean wherever it chooses.
So, are we going to be wrecking a system that produces a part of the oxygen we breathe?
Dark oxygen: We don’t know what we don’t know - resilience
#oceanmining
#mineralextraction
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-08-11/dark-oxygen-we-dont-know-what-we-dont-know/
Dark oxygen: We don’t know what we don’t know - resilience
The CBP - Bob Burnett, Barefoot Mining
Mining companies want to be dig up the ocean floor for minerals. It could have disastrous consequences, and the obscure international body in charge of giving them permission is making their decision in the coming weeks. Save the oceans!
https://share.eko.org/803887676t?referring_akid=122239.2342095.dzwlfY&referring_source=fwd#petition #oceanmining #deepseamining
Mining the ocean floor??
Mining companies want to be dig up the ocean floor for minerals. It could have disastrous consequences, and the obscure international body in charge of giving them permission is making their decision in the coming weeks. Save the oceans!
Ban deep sea mining before it starts.
The worlds oceans are being damaged by overfishing and pollution, now they want to start dredging the sea bed for minerals which will mean even more damage.
Please sign green peace petition to stop this.
https://action.greenpeace.org.uk/deep-sea-mining-2?source=EM&subsource=OCMRGLPEEM08GB&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Stop%20Deep%20Sea%20Mining%20Lead%20Gen%20PE20230317#petition @greenpeace #oceanMining #saveTheSea
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