'EV Battery Rocks' on Ocean Floor Could Power a Billion Electric Vehicles

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https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/business/ignite-san-diego/ev-battery-rocks-on-ocean-floor-could-power-a-billion-electric-vehicles/2785563/

There's a very special type of rock at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that could be the key to millions of future electric vehicles.

Researchers on the Maersk Launcher, which is currently docked in San Diego Bay, are looking for the best and safest way to bring it to the surface.

“We’re trying to better understand the environment at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean where there is a very large, abundant supply of these polymetallic nodules,” said Gerard Barron holding what looks like a lumpy black rock.

However, the CEO and chairman of Vancouver-based the Metals Company said, the black lump is an electric vehicle battery in a rock and there could be trillions of them on the ocean floor about 1,100 miles off the coast of San Diego. The company estimated there is enough for a billion electric vehicles.


Almost sounds to good to be true.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Maybe have materials that could be used in batteries, but no way are the rocks 'batteries' lol (nt)

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2. That's what I got from it.

All of those rare minerals needed for EV batteries.

[Thunderbeast]

3. Did we find another Russian submarine?

Fifty years ago, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Russian submarine (at great expense) using a purpose-built salvage vessel named the Glomar Explorer. The cover story for their mission: Mining metallic nodules from the sea floor.

Project Azorian had limited success as the submarine broke into two pieces during the lift. Several Russian sailors' bodies were recovered in the operation and were re-committed to an at-sea burial. The secrets they hoped to reveal were only partially realized.



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