[MCN] Mine the seafloor for electric car batteries?

[Lance Olsen]

Electric vehicles spur race to mine deep sea riches | Financial Times <https://www.ft.com/content/00b2e3c8-e2b0-11e8-a6e5-792428919cee>
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1 day ago ... Electric vehicles spur race to mine deep sea riches. Miners want to tap subsea cobalt deposits for green technologies, but environmentalists ...
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Cobalt, Critical, Strategic and Rare Earth Minerals ... - Republic of Mining <https://republicofmining.com/category/critical-strategic-and-rare-earth-minerals-and-metals/>
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Electric vehicles spur race to mine deep sea riches – by Henry Sanderson ( Financial ... Cobalt is used in batteries for electric vehicles, an important industry for ...
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Electric vehicles spur race to mine deep sea riches ... a leader in the deep-sea polymetallic nodule exploration and development industry, will be presenting its ...
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Electric vehicles spur race to mine deep sea riches ... announces that the Company has received a loan from Deep Sea Mining Finance Ltd. (the "Lender") in the ...
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... that never left crude market · Electric vehicles spur race to mine deep sea riches .... Digital Future Carries the day at Schneider Electric Innovation Summit ...
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The Association of Mining Analysts (AMA) is a non-profit organisation representing the broad mining ... Electric vehicles spur race to mine deep sea riches.
Afghanistan's Lithium Wealth Could Remain Elusive - Latest Stories <https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100616-energy-afghanistan-lithium/>
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Jun 17, 2010 ... German did think lithium had a role in hybrid gas-electric vehicles, like those already on the road. ... The Race Is On to Mine the Deep Ocean.
Is deep sea mining vital for a greener future – even if it destroys ... <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/04/is-deep-sea-mining-vital-for-greener-future-even-if-it-means-destroying-precious-ecosystems>
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Jun 4, 2017 ... A new gold rush is targeting rich ores on the ocean floor containing valuable metals needed ... Mining the deep ocean floor for valuable metals is both inevitable and vital, ... electronics and crucial green technologies, such as solar power and electric cars. .... “Everyone is racing to be second,” says Fjellroth.——————————————————————————

“The growth in CO2 emissions closely follows the growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) corrected for improvements in energy efficiency.”

P. Friedlingstein, et al. “Update on CO2 emissions.” 
Nature Geoscience. Published online: 21 November 2010
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In a July, 2001 editorial, The Economist said that “It is no coincidence that the deepest and most protracted recessions in recent decades have taken hold in countries that experienced booms ...”  
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“Changes in world GDP (WGDP) have a significant effect on CO2 concentrations, so that years of above-trend WGDP are years of greater rise of CO2 concentrations.”

Granados et al. Climate change and the world economy: short-run determinants of atmospheric CO2. Environmental science & policy 21 (2012) 50–62
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“Access to more capital makes bigger crises feasible;  every now and then, somewhere in the world, one is going to happen. 

“Is this because the same mistakes are made again and again, or is each crisis unique?  The answer is yes to both: each crisis is unique, and the same mistakes are made again and again.”

The Economist, “A cruel sea of capital : A survey of global finance,” May 3rd, 2003.
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 “I have simply tended to be negative about booms,” investments guru Marc Faber told Asiaweek magazine in a February 2001 interview, because booms “easily turn into bubbles that become bigger and go bust.”  

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