Stranded Energy Is Emerging As Fuel For The Digital Economy

Stranded energy is emerging as a new fuel for Europe’s digital economy, powering Bitcoin, AI and data centers while reshaping ...
Mongabay

Deep-sea mining is a false solution to our challenges (commentary)

The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...
Crude Oil Prices

Investors Seem Ready To Go All-In on Deep Sea Mining

President Trump’s April executive order aims to accelerate U.S. deep-sea mining, stockpile critical minerals, and reduce reliance on China for rare earths and battery metals. Companies like TMC The ...
NPR

Countries are negotiating rules to mine the deep sea. The U.S. is pushing ahead alone

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...