
What to think about deep-sea mining for clean-energy minerals
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The Vacuum Cleaner - What's on the Horizon?
A few companies are piloting technologies where submersibles would hover above the seafloor and pluck up nodules. Impossible Metals, a startup, doesn't have a pilot vehicle that they are ready to test. They say they'll have that next year. The technology is potentially a game-changing technology, but again, it doesn't quite exist yet.
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