We Discovered Dark Oxygen In Our Oceans - The Controversy Explained

Scientists have identified a mysterious source of ‘dark oxygen’ deep in our oceans. Unlike what we know about oxygen production through photosynthesis, this new source challenges our understanding of oceanic and life origins.

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0:00 - Introduction
2:00 - Discover
5:40 - Battery Impact

7:00 - Impacts

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[BobFirth]

Obviously the review of areas stripped mined 4 years ago showing that those areas were dead and did not renew tells us all we need to know. THIS IS A BAD IDEA. This is not a renewable resource. Battery technology is evolving, and we very much might not need these minerals in the long run anyway. We have done enough destroying much of our land, do we need to do the same to our oceans? We have already over fished the oceans as it is. Let's save at least one part of our earth from corporate greed.

[ryanellison]

"deep sea mining is the eco friendly solution" LOL heard it all now.

[mikemorton]

If rocks like these exist on other planets with water, then they could be many planets with an oxygen atmosphere.

[jakewallace]

Fell in love with the thought of undersea mining as a child when i saw the movie The Abyss, which lead to learning more about the life at the bottom of the ocean...40 years later, im like "hey! the ocean is acting weird, and hungry, can we just leave it alone, its been asking politely for a while now, i think its about to spin our block in biblical proportions!"

[MinusMedley]

Many don't know that the most of the oxygen we breathe, comes from the ocean, not trees.

[steventaylor]

I feel like putting effort into sodium ion batteries would be better for the world.

[vulcand]

I hope we don't suck another resource dry. Everything has it's place. Work with nature, don't extort nature.

[stanleywilliams]

I guess that there’s a lot we don’t know about what it takes to live on this planet. For breathable oxygen to find its way to the atmosphere without photosynthesis is indeed miraculous. But it’s a miracle that’s sustained life on Earth for billions of years.

[tkb]

My mineralogy professor used to work on this in the 70s.

[jalbrandao]

Did these guys really take 10 years recalibrating equipment to do this discovery?? That is pretty amazing

[mikemorton]

Now we know what happened to planet Spaceballs.

[jimmurphy]

Missing in this discussion is a crucial point: these natural batteries are primary cells. As the metals in them react with the seawater to produce metal salts, they are consumed. The amount of oxygen they can produce is very finite. When the battery is worn out, the production stops. The fact that the metalic modules exist at all implies that any reaction that is taking place is extremely slow - which means that the amount of O2 produced is also very low. I don't see how the nodules could exist and persist over geologic time scales, and also be splitting water at a significant rate - unless there is some process that makes new modules. The other thing I wish the scientists had checked: If electrolysis is happening, H2 should be produced in twice the quantity that oxygen is produced. That should be easy to detect.

[YoniBaruch-ym]

Wait, huh? Sounds like someone in the first sentence has confused dark matter with antimatter.

[zatar]

Expect massive PR campaigns downplaying the importance of these rocks, while illegal operations are grabbing up as much of them as they can before laws protecting the environment even get a chance at being passed.

[Husky_Passion]

and if you remove those rocks it won't affect the environnement where it was for billions of years ?

[renee]

Obviously we should leave them alone and study how they work. Then learn how to replicate the process. But the people with money will destroy everything bc money is the only thing that matters right?

[abx]

Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries require zero cobalt or nickel. Sodium Ion batteries require zero lithium. What we use for batteries now will not be what we use for batteries in the future. There’s no need to dig up minerals that’ll be obsolete soon even if they weren’t so deep. 
Also, it makes sense that the minerals we use in manmade batteries are conducting electrolysis all on their own. Fascinating.

[funkizer]

Dark matter isn't the opposite of normal matter either. It's just something that we don't know what it is, but we know it's there because galaxies should spin slower than they do.

[bernicemarie]

Oh no they just removed all those rocks without knowing its effect on the ocean habitat or system... What if it was a keystone thing?😬

[vgernyc]

Hmmmm....the ability to breathe or to have a shiny EV and phone I throw out every couple years? Decisions