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What is your reaction when hearing that? My first impression was associated with drag net fishing, wreaking havoc to the ecosystems below. And Greenpeace is actively protesting their operation with dangerous intercepts of operations at sea. Is that the whole story then?
What if deep seabed mining of nickel and cobalt was the most environmentally benign alternative on Earth? That would flip my thinking entirely. Well, the alternative is strip mining in the rainforests of Indonesia and Congo, causing massive deforestation and devastation in some of the most valuable ecosystems.
How does that compare to Deep Seabed mining? Well, it’s deep, really deep, in the Abyssal Plain (12-18K ft. down). These Plains are not rare; they cover 50% of the Earth’s surface. And it’s unlike “mining” in the traditional sense. The metallic nodules are sitting on the surface, easily collected by robotic rovers. The smooth plains of silt are stirred up by this collection process, but to no obvious detriment to the main biomass that lives there — bacteria. Ongoing studies may find that they are helped by the agitation, giving more access to their nutrients. And the ecological value of microbe-infused silt is the opposite end of the spectrum from rainforest or coral reef.
The groups seeking permission from the International Seabed Authority to commence operations had to perform numerous studies of their effect on bacteria. Let me digress for a moment to mention how absurd this is. Every 48 hours, 50% of all bacteria on Earth are violently killed by phages. The shear tonnage of the slaughter is staggering: 17 billion tons of bacteria are killed by phage every single day. That’s the baseline. Deep Seabed Mining’s effect on a patch of them, positive or negative, is in the statistical noise by any reasoned analysis. Bacteria adapt quickly to any environment; they should not be the focus of any environmental impact analysis IMHO.
And there’s the rub. Opposition is pushing to try to prevent deep seabed mining by any means possible, reasoned or not. The logical error is the assumption that blocking deep seabed mining will stop mining. That will not happen, ever. Mining will shift to the next lowest cost option (deforesting Indonesia). It’s A versus B, not A versus nothing. Mining will occur, somewhere. How tragic for environmentalists to attack the best option and thereby foster the worst environmental outcomes for humanity. And the harm to the environment is compounded because the minerals in question are used to complete the transition away from oil to EVs. If Greenpeace wanted to promote deforestation and profits for Exxon, they would be hard pressed to find a better way. And, stepping back to consider the ocean's health, the biggest threat to the oceans is climate change and the related acidification that came from our fossil fuel era.
Where have we seen this backfiring behavior before? Nuclear energy. It was nuclear vs coal for the past 60 years, not nuclear vs nothing. Baseload energy will be generated, and environmental fear mongering shut down the best option for the environment back then. Lifelong environmentalist Stewart Brand summarized in his book Whole Earth Discipline: "Coal is now understood to be the long-term systemic horror we once thought nuclear was.” Nuclear was so safe that the nuclear fear mongering did more harm than nuclear energy itself! “Fear of radiation is a far more important health threat than radiation itself.” From the WHO analysis of Chernobyl and its long-term effects, stress from the human dialog on nuclear energy has killed more people than nuclear energy.
Same story with GMO foods, as Brand laments: “The environmental movement has done more harm with its opposition to genetic engineering than with any other thing we have been wrong about. We’ve starved people, hindered science, hurt the natural environment, and denied our own practitioners a crucial tool. We make ourselves look a conspicuously irrational, and we teach that irrationality to the public and to decision makers.”
Must history keep repeating itself with a tragic backfiring of environmental intent? Greenpeace’s position is “no deep sea mining, ever” with no consideration given to the default plan B. Classic A vs nothing thinking. The International Seabed Authority is preparing to process its first applications in 2025. I would hope Greenpeace would pause for a moment of rational consideration to not repeat the mega-mistakes of the past which fostered deforestation and climate change on a massive scale.
• Here is the closest I have seen to an impartial consideration of arguments for an against... with even ocean-obsessed James Cameron calling it a “less wrong” alternative to conventional land-based mining.
• Deep Seabed Mining FAQ by The Metals Company, the group that is farthest along (and it's their robot in photo above)
Avvicinandomi cauto al suo territorio, Nix mi osservava attento , senza distogliere quel suo sguardo profondo da me e dal mio obiettivo.Curiosità e discrezione,questo fa parte dell'istinto felino.
Not so deep now....this was the original channel of the Des Plaines River through Lockport,IL. The river channel was moved west during the construction of the Sanitary and Ship Canal from 1892-1900.
Deep Purple en concert à la Foire aux Vins de Colmar le 13 août 2013. Setlist : Highway Star / Into The Fire / Hard Lovin' Man / Vincent Price / Strange Kind Of Woman / Contact Lost / Guitar Solo (By Steve Morse) / Uncommon Man (World Live Premiere) / The Well-Dressed Guitar / The Mule (incl. Drum Solo By Ian Paice) / Hell To Pay / Lazy / Above And Beyond / No One Came / Keyboard Solo (By Don Airey) / Perfect Strangers / Space Truckin' / Smoke On The Water / Hush / Bass Solo (By Roger Glover) / Black Night
Deep Purple en concert à la Foire aux Vins de Colmar le 13 août 2013. Setlist : Highway Star / Into The Fire / Hard Lovin' Man / Vincent Price / Strange Kind Of Woman / Contact Lost / Guitar Solo (By Steve Morse) / Uncommon Man (World Live Premiere) / The Well-Dressed Guitar / The Mule (incl. Drum Solo By Ian Paice) / Hell To Pay / Lazy / Above And Beyond / No One Came / Keyboard Solo (By Don Airey) / Perfect Strangers / Space Truckin' / Smoke On The Water / Hush / Bass Solo (By Roger Glover) / Black Night
Deep Purple en concert à la Foire aux Vins de Colmar le 13 août 2013. Setlist : Highway Star / Into The Fire / Hard Lovin' Man / Vincent Price / Strange Kind Of Woman / Contact Lost / Guitar Solo (By Steve Morse) / Uncommon Man (World Live Premiere) / The Well-Dressed Guitar / The Mule (incl. Drum Solo By Ian Paice) / Hell To Pay / Lazy / Above And Beyond / No One Came / Keyboard Solo (By Don Airey) / Perfect Strangers / Space Truckin' / Smoke On The Water / Hush / Bass Solo (By Roger Glover) / Black Night
Le Havre, France 22/05/2015
The Deep Blue is the market leading deepwater pipelay and subsea construction vessel. She utilises the reel-lay and J-lay pipelay methods to install all types of flexible and rigid pipe and umbilicals, and can lay umbilicals and flexibles from her below-deck carousels. Technip's flagship vessel has an excellent track record including many industry firsts and supports subsea developments in water depths up to 3,000 m.
Le Deep Blue est le navire de pose de conduites et de construction sous-marine en mer profonde, le plus grand au monde. Il utilise les techniques de pose en déroulé et en J pour l'installation de tous types de conduites flexibles, rigides et d'ombilicaux. Le Deep Blue permet la pose d’ombilicaux et de conduites flexibles à partir de ses carrousels de stockage de conduites flexibles sous le pont. Navire phare de la flotte Technip, il a d’excellentes références dont plusieurs premières dans le domaine des opérations en mer, et a permis des développements sous-marins jusqu'à 3 000 mètres de profondeur.
Length : 206,5 m
Beam : 32 m
GT : 33,791
Made these deep fried oreos and decided to top it off with Nutella. they were REALLY good. wish I had some whipped cream as well.
Same photo but with texture and colour added.
Thanks again to the lovely and talented artists who inspire me daily to both dig deeper inside myself and to learn new techniques! They include: Rosie Hardy, Kori E., Love Loren, Bradi, Imogen, etc... (find them in my contacts :)
Texture by: redeemer-of-light.deviantart.com/
DEEP IN THOUGHT. CAPTURED THIS MAN SITTING IN FRONT OF THE BRIDGEPORT CT TRAIN STATION. AT THE MOMENT OF THIS CAPTURE THE TRAIN STATION WAS CLOSED TO A METRO NORTH TRAIN DERAILMENT.
Deep Purple en concert à la Foire aux Vins de Colmar le 13 août 2013. Setlist : Highway Star / Into The Fire / Hard Lovin' Man / Vincent Price / Strange Kind Of Woman / Contact Lost / Guitar Solo (By Steve Morse) / Uncommon Man (World Live Premiere) / The Well-Dressed Guitar / The Mule (incl. Drum Solo By Ian Paice) / Hell To Pay / Lazy / Above And Beyond / No One Came / Keyboard Solo (By Don Airey) / Perfect Strangers / Space Truckin' / Smoke On The Water / Hush / Bass Solo (By Roger Glover) / Black Night
Dallas, TX. Deep Ellum is so cool. I love these graphics on the bridge nearby. *update* i heard this bridge has been covered up. so sad. it was a Deep Ellum icon for years.
Deep Purple en concert à la Foire aux Vins de Colmar le 13 août 2013. Setlist : Highway Star / Into The Fire / Hard Lovin' Man / Vincent Price / Strange Kind Of Woman / Contact Lost / Guitar Solo (By Steve Morse) / Uncommon Man (World Live Premiere) / The Well-Dressed Guitar / The Mule (incl. Drum Solo By Ian Paice) / Hell To Pay / Lazy / Above And Beyond / No One Came / Keyboard Solo (By Don Airey) / Perfect Strangers / Space Truckin' / Smoke On The Water / Hush / Bass Solo (By Roger Glover) / Black Night
Much of my route along the Worth Way was through deep cutting, which made me feel rather isolated from the wider countryside