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John Oliver covers Deep-sea Mining on Last Week Tonight

Posted on June 13, 2024 By Andrew Thaler
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The ocean is a gigantic places absolutely chock full of weirdos.

Oliver touched on quite a few points I’ve made over the year, including the fact that deep-sea mining is absolutely not inevitable and that new battery chemistries could dramatically reduce the demand for these critical minerals over the next decade.

Read more about deep-sea mining:

  • One Mining Code to Rule Them All: The poison pill at the heart of the Deep-Sea Mining negotiations.
  • New Deep-sea Mining Bill Introduced in Congress
  • Updated financial model for deep-sea mining makes more sense, fewer dollars
  • The world’s largest cold water coral reef lies beside the first experimental deep-sea mining test site

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