TEMA: Generation Jesus
Into the Abyss - The Future of Deep Sea Mining
In an era of soaring demand for metals and minerals, should humanity enter one of the last largely untouched ecosystems on Earth to fuel its technological growth?
This episode explores the emerging industry of deep sea mining - a method that would extract metal-rich nodules, crusts, and sulfides from the ocean floor thousands of meters below the surface. Using robotic vehicles and massive surface ships, companies aim to harvest critical materials like nickel, cobalt, and copper, essential for batteries, renewable energy systems, and digital technologies. Benjamin Lawrence Meinig unpacks how this technology would work and how realistic large-scale deployment actually is.
