Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2021

The estimated resource on the seafloor in the exploration contract areas held by the company’s subsidiaries is sufficient for 280 million EVs—a quarter of the global passenger car fleet. Seafloor polymetallic nodule. The nodules are unattached to the seafloor; i.e., there is no need for drilling and blasting. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

At a high level, the findings suggest that, compared to mining the land for battery metals, sourcing the needed metals from ocean nodules can deliver: 70% less CO 2 e direct emissions. 90% reduction in SO x and NO x emissions. 94% less stored carbon at risk. 100% reduction in solid waste. 94% less land use. 93% less wildlife at risk.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Raw materials nodule The Metals Company Agencies from seventeen nations have exploration contracts in the CCZ from the International Seabed Authority. 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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