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DeepGreen lifecycle analysis argues for sourcing EV battery materials from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

100% reduction in solid waste. Polymetallic nodules are hard, compact lumps of matter formed through precipitation and interactions of water contained in seafloor sediments (pore waters) and more oxidized seawaters. Reinjection of deep seawater used for vertical transport in the mid-water column. 94% less land use.

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Battery Batteries Tonga Water

Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

"We are committed to turning those rocks into metal using renewable power and with zero solid waste," Shesky says. Land-based mining is already fraught with environmental destruction, emissions, human rights abuses , and mountains of waste, as well as precarious global supply chains.

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DeepGreen lifecycle analysis argues for sourcing EV battery materials from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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