[ISL] "Mining the Ocean Floor: Good Idea?"

[rfmcdpei]

Bloomberg View's Adam Minter wonders about the negative environmental consequences of mining the ocean floor.

While commodities traders still work their way out of a historic slump, Japan is looking ahead to the next boom. According to Bloomberg News, next year a group of Japanese companies and government agencies will start mining minerals at a

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[neowolf2]

One of the important photovoltaic technologies uses tellurium. This element is rare in the Earth's crust, but can be found in some seafloor deposits. It would be better to mine it from type CI chondritic asteroids, if that could be done cheaply enough.

[roseembolism]

Given what the last major undersea mining push turned out to be, I have to wonder if there's any new Russian subs that need to be salvaged.