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Could digging up the ocean floor help save the planet? – BBC News
Scientists are looking at what would happen if we were to dig up the ocean floor for metals.
They’re particularly interested in cobalt, which is a prime ingredient of the rechargeable batteries found in phones and electric cars.
As more and more of us choose to move away from fossil fuels, the demand for cobalt is even greater.
But what damage could mining the seabed do to marine life?
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The 80s classic home computer the ZX Spectrum has been recreated thanks to fundraising by fans. Elite Systems in Lichfield, Staffordshire, received donations of more than £60,000 to reinvent the machine. It is a replica with familiar rubbery keys and when it is connected to a tablet computer it is possible to play the old games and use it for programming.
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Massive explosions have hit China’s northern city of Tianjin, leaving dozens of people dead and hundreds more injured.
State media said the blasts happened in a warehouse storing “dangerous and chemical goods” in the port area of the city.
Pictures and video on social media showed flames lighting up the sky, and buildings are said to have collapsed.
John Sudworth reports from Tianjin.
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An island in north Wales has been officially recognised for having one of the best night skies in the world.
Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island), off the Llŷn Peninsula, has become the first site in Europe to be awarded International Dark Sky Sanctuary certification.
It joins 16 other sites worldwide recognised as the most remote and dark places on earth.
The trust which owns the island said it was a “huge achievement”.
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A new app is helping blind people solve everyday problems by combining smartphones video technology and an army of armchair volunteers.
World Hacks investigates how it works and explores whether micro-volunteering projects like this have the potential to solve all kinds of problems in the future.
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January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
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@aureldan1190
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
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@markplain2555
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Wow, 'MORE' cobalt will be needed for batteries for Electric Vehicles. This is one of the biggest fallacies. It is gut wrenching to see this statement being bounced around. Cobalt is used to refine oil into petrol/gasoline in such vast quantities that if all cars had to switch to electric we will actually decrease the mining of Cobalt. Cobalt is used once per EV car battery and can be recycled into a new battery once the battery is exhausted. In petrol/gasoline manufacture it is burnt into the air.
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PLEASE DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING i HAVE TYPED ABOVE PLEASE GOOGLE IT FOR YOURSELF.
@Martin-bx1et
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Take a look at the alternatives. Robert Murray-Smith's channel for example shows the development of a hemp-based battery that he has shown outperforms lithium! Sounds crazy but he shows exactly how he has achieved it over the years. His company has just partnered with eestor with a view to industrialising the process. (I have no link to either company.)
@oduarte188
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Arte imita guerra e avant mort ingnobil
@stealthymonk8808
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Save the planet from what?
@public.public
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
NO
@spfbaits
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
"Save the planet" are people still believing this nonsense. It was here Billions of years before us and will remain when we're long gone. Also CO2 makes up 0.0391% of the earth's atmosphere……but 97% of Agenda pushers want you to think we are the problem.
@FunkyMonk6
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
I find it ironic that people express outrage at this through their mobile devices the batteries of which require the metals that they are seeking to mine from the seabed. If you're so unhappy perhaps consider not adding to the demand for these products by buying them. You're all hypocrites.
@luxx1346
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
So if everyone is using electric cars, where do we get all the electricity? Wind turbines kill shit tons of birds and solar panels only have a 30 year life span.
@danielgorzelniak3209
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
To yall crying over it and saying no. FIND AN ALTERNATIVE OR GO BACK TO FOREST/STOP WHINING
@volcano-catonyoutube8706
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Of Course… if you dig out the ocean floors deep enough… we wouldn't all need swimming lessons in twenty five years. Hmmmm… (SPOILER ALERT: We're fucked)
@volcano-catonyoutube8706
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
The fatal flaw in Human thinking is the timescale it can process. We think in terms of the immediate; but one day, whatever else we manage to fuck up, this planet will, with 100% certainty be destroyed – even if mankind survives itself, a big rock will slap us or Yellowstone goes off or – even if we make it Billions of years, the Sun goes Nova and flash-fries the Earth anyway. So, the only logical move we have is to use the limited resources we have WISELY. And it's not building more cars. We need to get off this rock before the next one comes along – and the resources we need to do that? We are PISSING them up the collective wall.
@saimeera7699
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Don't disturb mother 🌏
@juls3951
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Stupid humans 🤦🏽♂️
@geoffreygoodyear3746
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Maybe promoting home grown products and sell them…put a ban on any more german nazi jew shops from .opening anymore .
@geoffreygoodyear3746
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Maybe stopping the chemtrails being sprayed 24/7 day and night help
@geoffreygoodyear3746
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Ha ha well did the Mexican gulf oil spill help when they dug that floor up ?
@SLR6IN
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Isn't that just harvesting just not from Moon or Mars or an asteroid.
Good luck environment.
@josetercero5820
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Are we realy this stupid enough?
@pigsareit
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
wow. that is a bad idea.
@warattada
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Have we done enough damages to the oceans and the planet!?
@mcrpree
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Public doesn't need it. Find another solution with Ur money
@annalieff-saxby568
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Should we strip-mine the ocean floor for profit?
No.
Simples.
@zozobjones-skyewarrior1442
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Seriously??? That just made me so angry! I’m getting to the stage where the only solution I see for the planet is us lit becoming extinct! The planet will be a whole lot better off without us. If they seriously consider that a potential solution to a massive issue that is so out of control that it’s almost beyond us… I say beam me up Scotty I need to escape from these bloody humans!
@samius1149
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
The heading "Could digging up the ocean floor help save the planet? – BBC News
" makes no sense for this video. What's the link between this and saving the planet?
@ebraaheemmuhumed4503
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
" Scientists" are looking at what would happen if "we" were to dig up the ocean floor for metals.
"They're particularly interested in cobalt", which is a prime ingredient of the rechargeable batteries found in phones and electric cars.
i wonder how the title itself will going to save them (scientists ) because it is we who are digging and not them a cording this title their work here is to predict what could happen
@akashaggy505
January 24, 2024 at 9:07 am
Can't wait for humans to die off and let the world live in peace, because all we do, is destroy everything