The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining

Re:The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining by adhesive_wombat on Saturday January 06, 2024 @06:43AM (#38890628)

Makes good cover for naval intelligence activities though. Just don't assume because you see a ship "mining manganese nodules" from the seabed that you should build your own ship with your own money.

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Re:The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining by jvanderbot on Saturday January 06, 2024 @10:30AM (#38892203)

Oh a deep water robot that can manipulate rock sized objects on the seafloor, map environment, and return heavy things to the surface? I, government agent, would like to buy 100.

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Re:The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining by deadly-penguin on Saturday January 06, 2024 @11:26AM (#38892714)

Those sorts of things are currently available and aren't much like a mining rig.

Deep sea mining rigs don't really manipulate the nodules so much as hoover them up - there wouldn't be as much backlash if it was just picking nodules up.

There's a picture of an early rig here: https://blogs.noc.ac.uk/jc241-smartex/prologue-smartex

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Re:The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining by jareklupinski on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:46PM (#38906434)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes#Glomar_Explorer_...

personally hoping to start a robotic deep sea exploration crew in my retirement years...

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