A far more serious issue is the recent work showing that these nodules actually generate oxygen from the water and may well be one of the most critical sources of oxygen for life in the deep ocean. Remove the nodules and you remove the source of oxygen the life in that environment depend on, as well as what is potentially one of the essential sources of oxygen for all of us.
If we watched the same video which I’m sure we did, not only do these nodules create pretty much ALL of the deepsea oxygen in the ocean, areas mined over 40 years ago are still 100% devoid of any life or signs of recuperation. Mining these minerals could literally be the beginning of the end for the planet.
@@itsDragonBanethat makes no sense - the nodules were built up from shark teeth originally.. remember? Could it be catastrophic to the environment- sure. Will it be life ending, no… get real.
I once again query, how did the ocean life exist and thrive while those potatoes formed over millions of years from a shark tooth. I am not saying there is nothing to what you are saying. I am saying a+b=c. You may have answer = to c and you may have a or you may not and actually have b but until you have a and b definitively you are only making a hypothesis on what a+b actually are to actually get the c and it may actually be a+b+c=d. Where d is actually c. So once you get full equation you may get an intelligent hypothesis. Which once again maybe challenged at a later date. I must say I have yet to*see a=c or a+b with no c = d. Which at this point I would say is equivalent to your hypothesis at this point. More information is needed. * = see which is the one word I edited. I apologize in all my run on sentencing I left out that word and once again that too maybe challenged later.
The creation of these modules creates electrolysis which may be a major source of deep water oxygen. Who knows what that will do to the greater system? Everything seems to slow down in resource scarce zones? We could be creating dead zones that may take hundreds of thousands of years to reestablish?
Considering that the potatoes have been scientifically proven to produce dark oxygen, thru electrolysis, large scale mining would deplete oxygen levels and negatively impact that environment.
The biggest issue with mining here is the discovery of oxygen being produced from electrolysis of these metals down there. Removing them removes a bunch of oxygen from the depths and can cause a way bigger issue than anything else. I am suprised this wasn't mentioned as it was the biggest thing brought up about the area.
Most of the oxygen comes from sea plant life, so don't worry too much! And if scientists discover a way to release oxygen from the waters directly, we could even replace the dark oxygen. Most forests are gone today but we still breathe, don't we? We can also help by having lots of green leafed plants in our gardens, so, I'd say, let's? (we are with eight billion and if even half of us each could contribute in even a fraction of the oxygen required, well, do the maths, even a tiny tree on your balcony really helps)
My question to electric car owners is a simple one where does the power to charge your batteries come from? Like exactly what is the source of the electricity and very rare cases its nuclear but it in most cases lately it is all from carbons? So charging your battery in an electric car is still not helping the environment as of right now or am I missing something? Please don't be hateful as this is a genuine thought and a concern of mine and I don't know the answer
I cant see electric cars helping the enviroment ..quiet a few have exploded ,or caught fire while being recharged ... I believe they are adding to the enviromental problems ... we have that much radiation from Cell Towers that use enormous amounts of energy that provide the mobile phones with E M F ... Microwave Frequencies ...not only damaging the enviroment but also those that use them ...they not only made trillions of dollars from this technology but also this must be adding to the heating of our atmosphere adding more and more radiation ... Greed over Health ... We all came into the World with nothing ... we all go out with nothing ... as the gentleman prior to your question said .... and perfectly said ....how many of these years will be of endless suffering ... exactly !!!
@@bundabergflorist4670 you make it sound like no new technology has ever had faults in the begining? There are bugs/design flaws to work out, but that doesn't mean to give up on them all together, it's still the early days of EV tech.
There are plenty of ways, solar power for one. As solar tech gets better you'll see it incorporated into the newer EV's to help charge while in the sun, either while driving thus extending your range or while parked charging for free. Hydro dams also create electricity just from the flowing water, wind turbines, as well as using hydrogen produced from electrolysis. Not all electricity is derived from coal plants and nuclear plants. As more of our electricity starts to come from green sources, having electric vehicles becomes better and better. Yes it uses gas/diesel to transport the equipment currently, but the tiny increase in green house gases caused by the creation/distribution will be outweighed by the benefit of less and less fossil fuel driven vehicles. Our choices at least for the vehicle portion is continue to use fossil fuels forever until there's no more, and our environment is ruined by green house gases and mining/deforestation to get oil or we switch to an alternative like electric vehicles. While the current tech for EV's isn't all that good i.e. battery life etc., the industries are constantly trying to improve the technology. Also some electric cars give you the option to charge them at night and send power back to the grid during the day when it's most needed/expensive, that would help to alleviate some of the strain on our grid, however we really need to re-design/update our ancient power grid in the US. So there are definitely pros and cons, but in my opinion soon the tech will have improved enough (Battery tech/run time/Miles before charge, Energy generation, etc.) that the benefits will outweigh the cons. Specifically one way of addressing the con of increased emictions from transporting the EV's, is that they are coming out with electric semi's which could then haul a lot of new vehicles/products etc.
The percentages of the power supplied to the grid depend on the available sources to the local power companies. On the national level, there is a growing portion of solar and wind generation, as well as other "green technologies" in development to reduce the pollution we currently emit from burning fossil fuels. It is a simple fact: The movement away from coal is needed to stave off further atmospheric degradation. Else the snowball will roll out of control.
I work in the 6000m subsea zone. Everyone wants these. But check out the recent paper on "Dark Oxygen" formation published in Nature. Maybe we should leave them in place.
If trash become valuable, it will be sold . Greed is universal, the question will be , which one cost less to exploit? The environment is still an afterthought sadly.
It takes over 1500 gallons of diesel fuel to mine enough minerals to make one Tesla battery. That battery is then charged by generators running on fossil fuels. Add to that the cost of storing, disposing, and recycling the battery at the end of its life cycle and you create more CO2 than you would just running a engine on gasoline.
And what do you think would happen when EV tech gets good enough that those drilling/mining machines become electric and stop needing all that diesel? They are already coming out with electric semi trucks, so transporting goods will be less of an issue. As well as increases in solar tech/efficiencies and solar farms and other green forms of energy that could produce electricity other than from electric plants burning coal/oil. Sure right now the creation/distribution will produce more co2, but in the long run once most fossil fuel driven motors/vehicles have switched to electric, and production methods improve, then the co2 problem will start to disappear. Especially as the tech advances, longer run times, possible different battery chemistry's which might not rely on such rare minerals, or have much higher energy density thus needing less batteries over all. I mean you're complaining about the excess co2 that will be made temporarily as if a temporary increase wouldn't be better than creating co2 from continuing to use fossil fuels forever? And what happens when those fossil fuels are used up? I mean you cant seriously say that we have an unlimited amount of gas/diesel/oil etc. in the ground right?
....hmmmm.....a species named after you??? ......(tapping my chin).......How 'bout "Anonymous", to respect your privacy??? I would have put it in Latin, but i ain't no Latin major........
How do you get soo much info from a one subject, let alone all of the ones you have posted! I love your videos, keep it up man! Anything you need in order to make this world aware is enough i believe it so! 💪
Going electric isn't going to help NOTHING! You could almost say it's going to be worse for this planet. Look up the pros and cons of electric ....it will shed a new light on to you
Your just a brainwashed simpleton. There are cons currently, that are not outweighed by the benefits. But it's also true we are in the early days of green energy. An analogy would be like how cars in the past emitted more greenhouse gasses in the past than now thanks to science. A current example is this video might be pointless because we are working on much more eco friendly, I believe salt based batteries. They're less efficient but much more sustainable.
@@iangoodall849 cons are huge. If you need to travel more than 300km, no matter what the manufacturers say, theres not a single electric car, that can go more than 300km, even if advertisement says it can go 700km nonstop - iqoniq 6 is a big example, a reward winning electric car. And lithium is far more toxic than anything else we have.
4:00 - at this point the only thought I had - we have polluted ground and going into seas. It is hard to believe that in rush for profit someone would care about how pure ocean is.
Guess what? Starlink is already taking care of the sky, with thousands of sattelites sent and no other plan to take them out other than burning them in low atmosphere. We're fucked but we have great ppl to worship while we die, all good :)
From my understanding based on what I heard on another channel covering this topic, the reason they aren’t going for these potatoes yet is because they might serve a CRUCIAL role in how our ocean works. There’s something to do with the flow of water and how the ocean cleans itself.. these “potatoes” generate an electrical field that significantly boosts the bio life down there and helps keep the ocean clean. Just like the trees on earth, these potatoes are the trees of the ocean floor so removing them would drastically impact our ocean/sea bed 😢 all of these attempts at “saving the planet” seem to not care about **ACTUALLY** saving the planet and more about their families becoming richer than imaginable to spend all of that wealth in a world that’s crumbling and destroyed. Enjoy your rich lives in your bunkers with your air scrubbers and MRE’s 😂
@@WilsonTexasRager well, that’s gonna have a mighty terrible impact on our oceans and in turn our overall planet.. and I’m not a global warming nut. That one is just common sense along with the trees/forests being chopped down. We ignore our problems/mess we create and keep seeking new places to leech from where we have no business leeching- but this time it will cost us.
We should leave this area completely alone & off limits. But we are so greedy they’ll figure out a way to get what they want. We have destroyed every environment & ecosystem we’ve “explored.” I have no faith that this will be any different.😢
You get to enjoy the beauty of the places YOU keep clean. That goes the same for rich people. Rich people won’t ruin Suites so work towards getting one. Be glad you admire the little things. Some people just can’t. Also, we always keep the environment on a steady decline then we build it back up to “Moderate” .
And YET, you own a computer, and probably a smartphone, and probably a tv, stereo, a vehicle, a bike, ALL of which were produced from products that were MINED! So my dear fellow Destroyer, how's life treatin' ya?
@@jrbailey3208 its just sad that they are allowed to do it the way they do most of the time, without so much regulations. We all heard stories of mining companies that took what they wanted and left a region in devastation, same with fracking and all those kind of resource gathering activities. Im not saying Dont mine... im just saying mine properly
@@jamesross3939 I see you never bothered to take a communications class in either High School, junior college, college, or university. I must also hardly recommend that you take remedial classes in Logic, Biology, Chemistry, & Physics. Cheers
Man it has been a near 3 to 6 years since I’ve watched a video from start to finish from u WATOP, and I’m glad that u have been thriving while I’ve been gone. And I’m in high hopes I’m gonna be back on the grind to watch every new and entertaining knowledge of this brutal world we live in. Stay on the grind WATOP👌😅😊
Well, the car sales numbers say otherwise.. Rivian, Tesla, Chinese electric cars, and every other main brand that’s now using hybrids/EV’s and selling them more than gasoline ones..
They would drain the oceans if they could just to feed their greed. But its okay if you get your license from the seabed authority. Where does that money go and how much is a license ?
Are they for real. We haven't learned from our past. Well here's another reason to leave the nodules. They are producing dark oxygen. This is the production of oxygen without photosynthesis. It is estimated that the nodules are the leading producer of oxygen in the world. So breathing or batteries, that should be a no brainer.
Your information is very informative and very educational and schools should teach some of this In classes. Thank you on how you bring the info to us in detail. It’s very exciting to learn so much about things I’d never know existed. And so you know I’m always literal about things seriously so I truly do thank you for how you do your videos.😊❤️👍🙏
Very interesting topic, it's something I've often wondered about. Informative vid, ty. I won't be surprised when biodiverse areas get mined because impartial deciders gets bribed.
I'd like to know more about the finding from Franz Geiger that sites that were mined back in the 1980s still haven't recovered, "not even the bacteria". If 40 years isn't enough for life to recover from the mining, then it might not be something that can ever recover. And that's total death to the whole deep sea biome if we strip mine it. But if his findings aren't accurate or are exaggerated, then there's a strong argument to harvest.
Definitely a difficult conundrum. It seems that every country that wishes to extract from the seabeds, need to publicly demonstrate their procedures and equipment within a set of parameters to prevent environmental degradation. While this first example will extract a substantial amount. Is such amount absolutely required? Can analysis be performed with less, and still insure the nominal parameters of the engineering being used. That should be what this first extraction must set for all possibilities.
Mining on land sometimes involves child labour. With sea mining that will become impossible, is that one upside? Also the nodules can be replaced by other solid objects, some coral reefs were rebuild with legos, so its possible! If the process is as profitable as you stated, companies will be able to manage the supposed damage inflicted.
they almost certainly produce oxygen since the water at that depth would be very oxygen poor otherwise (it actually already is but much more so) since there's no sunlight that deep and the main producer of oxygen is the phytoplankton which is only present in the very top part of the ocean the plants we see on land produce about 1/5th of the oxygen we breath compared to the 4/5s that green muck you see whenever you go to beach produces and in deep water the oxygen is produced by other sources
Trees barely produce air nowadays, the sea plants alge, and those mineral nuggets actually produce most the oxygen on earth nowadays, so scraping the sea floor will almost kill oxygen on earth.
Actually it has been proven that the reforestation after cutting trees has increased the volume of trees and the avaliable oxygen for the planet. The new growth replenishment is faster than predicted.
@justa.american8303 😆 ok , if we mess up the floor life on the sea 🌊 we will definitely be messing up the minerals helping to produce sea plant life and alge, converting just the right amount of gases will all change. All life is connected, we will suffer and wish we did not take the sea floor minerals if we try, without zoning and real study first with more than one follow test before anything.
We Norwegians are always been after oil/gass/wind/water power, because er don't have any mines for anything, just alot of businesses that are converting the minerals and make stuff out of it... But didn't know that we hade 2 licenses or plots, but for now it's just on the waiting for starting to mine, after developing miners for the undersea that perhaps may be a better option for the nature around the mining plots
@@shepberryhill4912 I never said I did. Just considering the eventual outcomes and voicing a preference. We know more about the solar system than the ocean floor.
@@jacktribble5253 Asteroid mining! Lessee here now . . . 5 1/2 year journey to Europa (Jovian Moon). That's beyond most asteroids, but there's a ballpark. Musk is trying to get to Mars. Also a few years out. Once you GET there you hafta learn to LIVE there. And learn how to pick'n'shovel an Asteroid. Hopefully we get all that done before we mine the Earth to death.
@@jacktribble5253 Oh, I'm with you, Jack! I truly hope we get to that busted up planet between Mars and Jupiter where lots of heavy metals are before we mine the earth to death. But we may have to mine the earth to death just to GET there. Or severely cut back on mankind. Neither option feels good.
got 2 words for ya. space mining. asteroids are loaded with minerals, why its not done is things that are expensive due to rarity would become cheap and it's all about profit. look at diamonds, most of them are in one bank in England to control price.
Wow, earth is just a gift that keeps on giving. Just when you think the material for tech is done for, we find a reservoir of possibly double the material we started with. I always thought earth was like a recycling bin, I just didn’t kno it was this good at its job.
15:53 You mention lifeless. I would argue that there is life everywhere down there. moving from place to place. Never stopping. Our world is slowly being devoured by us.
Considering what they've done to the Indian and Chinese coasts with their manmade islands for both military bases and tourism by completely SHREDDING coral reefs. And I only recently found out they mine the sand off the ocean floors doing tons of damage to make glass as well. 😢ANYTIME corporations destroy parts of the planet for war or financial gain it INFURIATES me. Gaia is alive and deserves more respect from us.
There is a discovery that the mineral deposits release oxygen and could be important for the oxygen levels in the deep oceans. Removing could end in a catastrophic situation of dead oceans. One also should consider leaving seedlings back to let them regrow.
Guys, go email/call these companies and tell them NO. Email/call your representatives and tell them NO. Email/call the International Seabed Authority and tell them they have your support to stop this madness before it starts. We absolutely must not allow this to proceed, and we must challenge every single report or paper that claims this is "safe"; we've been told that before, and look at where we are today. The economy can't save a dead planet.
Destroying the sea floor to save the planet is like fighting wars to create peace . Only those who's greed for $ Is greater than need for a peaceful & prosperous planet to live on .
A far more serious issue is the recent work showing that these nodules actually generate oxygen from the water and may well be one of the most critical sources of oxygen for life in the deep ocean. Remove the nodules and you remove the source of oxygen the life in that environment depend on, as well as what is potentially one of the essential sources of oxygen for all of us.
If we watched the same video which I’m sure we did, not only do these nodules create pretty much ALL of the deepsea oxygen in the ocean, areas mined over 40 years ago are still 100% devoid of any life or signs of recuperation. Mining these minerals could literally be the beginning of the end for the planet.
Some elite idiot watched this and thought: 🤑
@@itsDragonBanethat makes no sense - the nodules were built up from shark teeth originally.. remember?
Could it be catastrophic to the environment- sure.
Will it be life ending, no… get real.
Yep I’ve seen that. Not definitive yet though.
I once again query, how did the ocean life exist and thrive while those potatoes formed over millions of years from a shark tooth. I am not saying there is nothing to what you are saying. I am saying a+b=c. You may have answer = to c and you may have a or you may not and actually have b but until you have a and b definitively you are only making a hypothesis on what a+b actually are to actually get the c and it may actually be a+b+c=d. Where d is actually c. So once you get full equation you may get an intelligent hypothesis. Which once again maybe challenged at a later date. I must say I have yet to*see a=c or a+b with no c = d. Which at this point I would say is equivalent to your hypothesis at this point. More information is needed.
* = see which is the one word I edited.
I apologize in all my run on sentencing I left out that word and once again that too maybe challenged later.
I could almost guarantee mining the ocean floor will have a negative impact on the eco system.
Better than having people resort to violence to survive because the globalists are trying to eliminate the population and limit who get resources
but if you can guarantee that , can you guarantee if i can go up/hill on reverse while holding a cup of bleach, half full in my left hand?
@beikan4107 you sure can 👍
Thought they maybe work as a sort of ocean filtersystem which will raise the toxicity of the ocean when harvested. Nice to see i wasnt the only one.
The creation of these modules creates electrolysis which may be a major source of deep water oxygen. Who knows what that will do to the greater system? Everything seems to slow down in resource scarce zones? We could be creating dead zones that may take hundreds of thousands of years to reestablish?
We really need to encourage electronic recycling so these minerals aren’t thrown into the trash.
Exactly what i was thinking.
The answer has to be recycling
need nuclear to drive the energy requirment.
Become a billionaire by developing a process to recycle anything at a profit. Pretty much the only thing that is truly recycled is gold.
We really need to stop using them all together and get our power from fission and get fusion working..
Considering that the potatoes have been scientifically proven to produce dark oxygen, thru electrolysis, large scale mining would deplete oxygen levels and negatively impact that environment.
I did not know that. Thanks for the heads up.
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The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea
I was hoping I wouldn’t be the only one that knew that. Something like that could be equated to killing off all the bees.
The biggest issue with mining here is the discovery of oxygen being produced from electrolysis of these metals down there. Removing them removes a bunch of oxygen from the depths and can cause a way bigger issue than anything else. I am suprised this wasn't mentioned as it was the biggest thing brought up about the area.
Thank you for teaching me new things with each video you do. Outstanding work
Say ....I hear trees make oxygen ! You know ,it's that stuff we breath and gives life to everything . So tell me , why your clearing forests ?
Not just trees, EVERY plant.
They also re-plant the trees.... Trees are literally a renewable resource.
Because capitalism.
@@JohnPeacekeeper Capitalism has nothing to do with it clown. Trees are needed for many things in every country...
Most of the oxygen comes from sea plant life, so don't worry too much! And if scientists discover a way to release oxygen from the waters directly, we could even replace the dark oxygen. Most forests are gone today but we still breathe, don't we? We can also help by having lots of green leafed plants in our gardens, so, I'd say, let's? (we are with eight billion and if even half of us each could contribute in even a fraction of the oxygen required, well, do the maths, even a tiny tree on your balcony really helps)
history clearly tells us what extraction will do to the enviroment
Drill baby Drill
@@lulu-cx5dv environment
Climate Change is a lie perpetrated by global elites to tax the plebs so they can get more money. YOU FOOLS!
Nothing? Since we are still here?
@@An.Unsought.Thought Learn proper sentence structure please.
this channel is a gem; always explaining some subject worth knowing more about. Thank you Mr Anonymous Guy!
His name is "Steve".
Doesn't always get it right though
My question to electric car owners is a simple one where does the power to charge your batteries come from? Like exactly what is the source of the electricity and very rare cases its nuclear but it in most cases lately it is all from carbons? So charging your battery in an electric car is still not helping the environment as of right now or am I missing something? Please don't be hateful as this is a genuine thought and a concern of mine and I don't know the answer
I don't know either
I cant see electric cars helping the enviroment ..quiet a few have exploded ,or caught fire while being recharged ... I believe they are adding to the enviromental problems ... we have that much radiation from Cell Towers that use enormous amounts of energy that provide the mobile phones with E M F ... Microwave Frequencies ...not only damaging the enviroment but also those that use them ...they not only made trillions of dollars from this technology but also this must be adding to the heating of our atmosphere adding more and more radiation ... Greed over Health ... We all came into the World with nothing ... we all go out with nothing ... as the gentleman prior to your question said .... and perfectly said ....how many of these years will be of endless suffering ... exactly !!!
@@bundabergflorist4670 you make it sound like no new technology has ever had faults in the begining? There are bugs/design flaws to work out, but that doesn't mean to give up on them all together, it's still the early days of EV tech.
There are plenty of ways, solar power for one. As solar tech gets better you'll see it incorporated into the newer EV's to help charge while in the sun, either while driving thus extending your range or while parked charging for free. Hydro dams also create electricity just from the flowing water, wind turbines, as well as using hydrogen produced from electrolysis. Not all electricity is derived from coal plants and nuclear plants. As more of our electricity starts to come from green sources, having electric vehicles becomes better and better. Yes it uses gas/diesel to transport the equipment currently, but the tiny increase in green house gases caused by the creation/distribution will be outweighed by the benefit of less and less fossil fuel driven vehicles. Our choices at least for the vehicle portion is continue to use fossil fuels forever until there's no more, and our environment is ruined by green house gases and mining/deforestation to get oil or we switch to an alternative like electric vehicles. While the current tech for EV's isn't all that good i.e. battery life etc., the industries are constantly trying to improve the technology. Also some electric cars give you the option to charge them at night and send power back to the grid during the day when it's most needed/expensive, that would help to alleviate some of the strain on our grid, however we really need to re-design/update our ancient power grid in the US. So there are definitely pros and cons, but in my opinion soon the tech will have improved enough (Battery tech/run time/Miles before charge, Energy generation, etc.) that the benefits will outweigh the cons. Specifically one way of addressing the con of increased emictions from transporting the EV's, is that they are coming out with electric semi's which could then haul a lot of new vehicles/products etc.
The percentages of the power supplied to the grid depend on the available sources to the local power companies. On the national level, there is a growing portion of solar and wind generation, as well as other "green technologies" in development to reduce the pollution we currently emit from burning fossil fuels.
It is a simple fact: The movement away from coal is needed to stave off further atmospheric degradation. Else the snowball will roll out of control.
Thank you for giving constant knowledge about the world WATOP!
I work in the 6000m subsea zone. Everyone wants these. But check out the recent paper on "Dark Oxygen" formation published in Nature. Maybe we should leave them in place.
Wouldn’t mining our trash for minerals needed for electronics be more profitable and less eco-damaging?
If trash become valuable, it will be sold . Greed is universal, the question will be , which one cost less to exploit? The environment is still an afterthought sadly.
Yes but they can’t make the same amount of money because the trash would yield less when you have tons of it right there in the ocean
Not really. Too much of it gets dissolved by acids and bases then become unrecoverable
I think at some point nano tech may be developed to recycle trash.
in the near future it may be a job for a robot similar to one in the film WALL-E.
As compared to wasting 100% of it @@BxCornw?
It takes over 1500 gallons of diesel fuel to mine enough minerals to make one Tesla battery. That battery is then charged by generators running on fossil fuels. Add to that the cost of storing, disposing, and recycling the battery at the end of its life cycle and you create more CO2 than you would just running a engine on gasoline.
And what do you think would happen when EV tech gets good enough that those drilling/mining machines become electric and stop needing all that diesel? They are already coming out with electric semi trucks, so transporting goods will be less of an issue. As well as increases in solar tech/efficiencies and solar farms and other green forms of energy that could produce electricity other than from electric plants burning coal/oil. Sure right now the creation/distribution will produce more co2, but in the long run once most fossil fuel driven motors/vehicles have switched to electric, and production methods improve, then the co2 problem will start to disappear. Especially as the tech advances, longer run times, possible different battery chemistry's which might not rely on such rare minerals, or have much higher energy density thus needing less batteries over all. I mean you're complaining about the excess co2 that will be made temporarily as if a temporary increase wouldn't be better than creating co2 from continuing to use fossil fuels forever? And what happens when those fossil fuels are used up? I mean you cant seriously say that we have an unlimited amount of gas/diesel/oil etc. in the ground right?
Steve : thank you for respect my privacy
also Steve : I wish a specie named after me
The Steve fish, don't you know it?
....hmmmm.....a species named after you??? ......(tapping my chin).......How 'bout "Anonymous", to respect your privacy???
I would have put it in Latin, but i ain't no Latin major........
He already has a sugar substitute!
Were people not respecting his privacy?
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How do you get soo much info from a one subject, let alone all of the ones you have posted! I love your videos, keep it up man! Anything you need in order to make this world aware is enough i believe it so! 💪
Going electric isn't going to help NOTHING! You could almost say it's going to be worse for this planet. Look up the pros and cons of electric ....it will shed a new light on to you
Your just a brainwashed simpleton. There are cons currently, that are not outweighed by the benefits. But it's also true we are in the early days of green energy. An analogy would be like how cars in the past emitted more greenhouse gasses in the past than now thanks to science. A current example is this video might be pointless because we are working on much more eco friendly, I believe salt based batteries. They're less efficient but much more sustainable.
@@iangoodall849 cons are huge. If you need to travel more than 300km, no matter what the manufacturers say, theres not a single electric car, that can go more than 300km, even if advertisement says it can go 700km nonstop - iqoniq 6 is a big example, a reward winning electric car. And lithium is far more toxic than anything else we have.
True
@@iangoodall849alright just to play devils advocate here, what's the process for acquiring lithium for lithium batteries?
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Good morning Sir, always happy to see your shared content ☕
Those modules are vital for life on earth. LEAVE THEM ALONE!
4:00 - at this point the only thought I had - we have polluted ground and going into seas. It is hard to believe that in rush for profit someone would care about how pure ocean is.
Guess what? Starlink is already taking care of the sky, with thousands of sattelites sent and no other plan to take them out other than burning them in low atmosphere. We're fucked but we have great ppl to worship while we die, all good :)
The people will help each other once the real problems arise.
With how many cell phones(example) are out there- making them last much longer would be a deterent for tearing up areas just to make more!
ive only just come across your stuff but i really appreciate the work you put into these vids. i feel like im watching some program on PBS
Thank you for such a detailed podcast. This subject can sound exciting but it contains so many dangers. I'm glad you covered a lot of them.
From my understanding based on what I heard on another channel covering this topic, the reason they aren’t going for these potatoes yet is because they might serve a CRUCIAL role in how our ocean works. There’s something to do with the flow of water and how the ocean cleans itself.. these “potatoes” generate an electrical field that significantly boosts the bio life down there and helps keep the ocean clean. Just like the trees on earth, these potatoes are the trees of the ocean floor so removing them would drastically impact our ocean/sea bed 😢 all of these attempts at “saving the planet” seem to not care about **ACTUALLY** saving the planet and more about their families becoming richer than imaginable to spend all of that wealth in a world that’s crumbling and destroyed. Enjoy your rich lives in your bunkers with your air scrubbers and MRE’s 😂
It's more about a demand for products and a need to obtain them from somewhere...
@@WilsonTexasRager well, that’s gonna have a mighty terrible impact on our oceans and in turn our overall planet.. and I’m not a global warming nut. That one is just common sense along with the trees/forests being chopped down. We ignore our problems/mess we create and keep seeking new places to leech from where we have no business leeching- but this time it will cost us.
Great stuff. Every video is one big learning experience. Thank you.
We should leave this area completely alone & off limits. But we are so greedy they’ll figure out a way to get what they want. We have destroyed every environment & ecosystem we’ve “explored.” I have no faith that this will be any different.😢
You get to enjoy the beauty of the places YOU keep clean. That goes the same for rich people. Rich people won’t ruin Suites so work towards getting one. Be glad you admire the little things. Some people just can’t. Also, we always keep the environment on a steady decline then we build it back up to “Moderate” .
You dont need to be a scientist to know that mining anywhere has already destroyed everything in its path
And YET, you own a computer, and probably a smartphone, and probably a tv, stereo, a vehicle, a bike, ALL of which were produced from products that were MINED!
So my dear fellow Destroyer, how's life treatin' ya?
@@jrbailey3208 its just sad that they are allowed to do it the way they do most of the time, without so much regulations. We all heard stories of mining companies that took what they wanted and left a region in devastation, same with fracking and all those kind of resource gathering activities. Im not saying Dont mine... im just saying mine properly
@@jrbailey3208ur soooooo smart.
@@jamesross3939
I see you never bothered to take a communications class in either High School, junior college, college, or university.
I must also hardly recommend that you take remedial classes in Logic, Biology, Chemistry, & Physics.
Cheers
@@jrbailey3208 look up irony... skipped school? How's life treating you being a smart ass?
Let’s be honest do humans have 10 more years?
we have thousands of years, but how many of them will be of endless suffering is another subject.
Climate Change is a lie perpetrated by global elites to tax the plebs so they can get more money. YOU FOOLS!
@@derederekat9051 thousand is a stretch, more like 100 years the least...
Don't be a drama queen..of course we do! Humans have. a Hugh capacity for selfg
Dno, I think it's more like 3 years left till something really big is going to take place. Beware!
Man it has been a near 3 to 6 years since I’ve watched a video from start to finish from u WATOP, and I’m glad that u have been thriving while I’ve been gone. And I’m in high hopes I’m gonna be back on the grind to watch every new and entertaining knowledge of this brutal world we live in. Stay on the grind WATOP👌😅😊
Very well done, sir. There are many organization and petitions one can find to stop deep sea mining. Something must be done.
Just another way to destroy the ocean and deplete it of dark oxygen making minerals.
Who told you that electric were getting more popular? Maybe you should ask Ford or GM about that!
True
Toyota as well, they went back to hybrids and have moved their EV line to Lexus.
Well, the car sales numbers say otherwise.. Rivian, Tesla, Chinese electric cars, and every other main brand that’s now using hybrids/EV’s and selling them more than gasoline ones..
Will an EV run when it’s -40C? Or survive hitting a deer on a dark rural road? My Ford F150 can do both : )
ford f1 lightning begs to differ
I've been watching your channel for almost 3 years, still very interesting and entertaining 😊👍✌️
Great video WATOP
With that voice, everyone knows who you are we love you
We destroy the planet to save the planet
All very good points WA. When I saw the tracks on the vacuum, I saw clouds of filthy water and marine destruction. Go environmentalists.
They would drain the oceans if they could just to feed their greed. But its okay if you get your license from the seabed authority. Where does that money go and how much is a license ?
It shocked the world so much and was so INSANE that you never heard about it. A truly SHOCKING discovery. Bro is welcome for receiving my comment.
subscribed yesterday, pretty good content
Ocean potatoes. My favorite!
PS: Bangkok is not an island
Man, the Ferngully underwater reboot looks like it went for that dark and gritty modern style, not looking forward to it.
An underwater Ferngully nice 1 lol
It sucks that as humans our nature is destroying the only planet we have.. Elon should focus on earth instead of mars, mars isn’t going anywhere
Thanks Steve...another great informative video...
Great information, thank you! See you in the next one!
Another positive comment 😊
Are they for real. We haven't learned from our past. Well here's another reason to leave the nodules. They are producing dark oxygen. This is the production of oxygen without photosynthesis. It is estimated that the nodules are the leading producer of oxygen in the world. So breathing or batteries, that should be a no brainer.
then how can the Oligarchy will sell oxygen to people if they don't eliminate the source of oxygen that is wasting all that profit for nothing?
Your information is very informative and very educational and schools should teach some of this In classes. Thank you on how you bring the info to us in detail. It’s very exciting to learn so much about things I’d never know existed. And so you know I’m always literal about things seriously so I truly do thank you for how you do your videos.😊❤️👍🙏
I am overwhelmingly surprised about how concerned you are about earth and it's flora and fauna! Big cred to you my friend!
Great job. Thank you 😊
Love your channel, cheers from Canada.
Very interesting topic, it's something I've often wondered about.
Informative vid, ty.
I won't be surprised when biodiverse areas get mined because impartial deciders gets bribed.
It's watching our extinction in real time, for a cellphone
Hyper Consumerism to fund a globalist banking system. I keep my phones untill they die. Still on an old s21.
We are ten years from the headline
"Why electric cars have been worse for the environment than combustion ever was"
I'd like to know more about the finding from Franz Geiger that sites that were mined back in the 1980s still haven't recovered, "not even the bacteria". If 40 years isn't enough for life to recover from the mining, then it might not be something that can ever recover. And that's total death to the whole deep sea biome if we strip mine it. But if his findings aren't accurate or are exaggerated, then there's a strong argument to harvest.
great video man
Well done!
Definitely a difficult conundrum. It seems that every country that wishes to extract from the seabeds, need to publicly demonstrate their procedures and equipment within a set of parameters to prevent environmental degradation. While this first example will extract a substantial amount. Is such amount absolutely required? Can analysis be performed with less, and still insure the nominal parameters of the engineering being used. That should be what this first extraction must set for all possibilities.
Thriving with your knowledge..blessings from the blue lady 💙 🙌 🙏
Yes.. for all of us watching.... We are top!! 🤘💯
I knew who you were, right away lol. Great Video.
Mining on land sometimes involves child labour. With sea mining that will become impossible, is that one upside? Also the nodules can be replaced by other solid objects, some coral reefs were rebuild with legos, so its possible! If the process is as profitable as you stated, companies will be able to manage the supposed damage inflicted.
Thank you Steve I'm sorry I jumped again you did do your research I appreciate that
Hey! If this is who I think it is, I was just thinking of you yesterday. Nice to hear your voice. 😊😊😊😊😊😊
love your videos
Next headline…Metallica sues marine biologist for copyright infringement 😂
They are now saying those nodules produce oxygen somehow. Sounds crazy. Maybe they say that to hopefully stop mining them. ???
they almost certainly produce oxygen since the water at that depth would be very oxygen poor otherwise (it actually already is but much more so) since there's no sunlight that deep and the main producer of oxygen is the phytoplankton which is only present in the very top part of the ocean the plants we see on land produce about 1/5th of the oxygen we breath compared to the 4/5s that green muck you see whenever you go to beach produces and in deep water the oxygen is produced by other sources
Trees barely produce air nowadays, the sea plants alge, and those mineral nuggets actually produce most the oxygen on earth nowadays, so scraping the sea floor will almost kill oxygen on earth.
Actually it has been proven that the reforestation after cutting trees has increased the volume of trees and the avaliable oxygen for the planet. The new growth replenishment is faster than predicted.
@justa.american8303 😆 ok , if we mess up the floor life on the sea 🌊 we will definitely be messing up the minerals helping to produce sea plant life and alge, converting just the right amount of gases will all change. All life is connected, we will suffer and wish we did not take the sea floor minerals if we try, without zoning and real study first with more than one follow test before anything.
Great vid!!!🤙
Wouldn't a long electromagnet be able to gather it? Most of the components listed are magnetic
Very cool video!
HI FIVE FROM CROATIA
Those potatoes produce oxygen. Mining them would be extremely foolish.
Licenses have been issued from whom?
Isn't in international waters?
We Norwegians are always been after oil/gass/wind/water power, because er don't have any mines for anything, just alot of businesses that are converting the minerals and make stuff out of it... But didn't know that we hade 2 licenses or plots, but for now it's just on the waiting for starting to mine, after developing miners for the undersea that perhaps may be a better option for the nature around the mining plots
I pressed the button! 👍
is it just me or does WATOP sound like Red Wheel as well? anyway. i LOVE these videos cause i ALWAYS learn something new!! Thank you!!
I'm early unobtrusively 😂
Given the choice, I would rather mine the solar system than the ocean floor.
You don't have that choice.
@@shepberryhill4912 I never said I did. Just considering the eventual outcomes and voicing a preference. We know more about the solar system than the ocean floor.
@@jacktribble5253 Asteroid mining! Lessee here now . . . 5 1/2 year journey to Europa (Jovian Moon). That's beyond most asteroids, but there's a ballpark. Musk is trying to get to Mars. Also a few years out. Once you GET there you hafta learn to LIVE there. And learn how to pick'n'shovel an Asteroid. Hopefully we get all that done before we mine the Earth to death.
@@ronphillips2072 You missed my point.
@@jacktribble5253 Oh, I'm with you, Jack! I truly hope we get to that busted up planet between Mars and Jupiter where lots of heavy metals are before we mine the earth to death. But we may have to mine the earth to death just to GET there. Or severely cut back on mankind. Neither option feels good.
Always a good video
got 2 words for ya. space mining. asteroids are loaded with minerals, why its not done is things that are expensive due to rarity would become cheap and it's all about profit. look at diamonds, most of them are in one bank in England to control price.
did yall also click on it cuz it looked like a grey still plays video
help yeah
SHOCKED ... petrified ...I've got all my life to live, and I've got all my love to give
And I'll survive, I will survive, hey hey
Wow, earth is just a gift that keeps on giving. Just when you think the material for tech is done for, we find a reservoir of possibly double the material we started with. I always thought earth was like a recycling bin, I just didn’t kno it was this good at its job.
Brilliant presentation! I'll do it, I'll name every worm I find on my place after you. So what is your name or shall I call them all Watop?
glad i ran into this channel. it seems like fun
15:53 You mention lifeless. I would argue that there is life everywhere down there. moving from place to place. Never stopping. Our world is slowly being devoured by us.
That ocean floor needs some American freedom 🫠
Leave the ocean floor alone
Great video subbed for more like this!
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nah that sounds dumb
Considering what they've done to the Indian and Chinese coasts with their manmade islands for both military bases and tourism by completely SHREDDING coral reefs. And I only recently found out they mine the sand off the ocean floors doing tons of damage to make glass as well. 😢ANYTIME corporations destroy parts of the planet for war or financial gain it INFURIATES me. Gaia is alive and deserves more respect from us.
There is no shortage of mining minerals on land.
What a great program!😊
your content is so good 👏🔥
There is a discovery that the mineral deposits release oxygen and could be important for the oxygen levels in the deep oceans. Removing could end in a catastrophic situation of dead oceans. One also should consider leaving seedlings back to let them regrow.
Hate your thumbnails, love your videos. ❤
Save the planet. Ban electric cars.
Guys, go email/call these companies and tell them NO. Email/call your representatives and tell them NO. Email/call the International Seabed Authority and tell them they have your support to stop this madness before it starts.
We absolutely must not allow this to proceed, and we must challenge every single report or paper that claims this is "safe"; we've been told that before, and look at where we are today.
The economy can't save a dead planet.
Climate Change is a lie perpetrated by global elites to tax the plebs so they can get more money. YOU FOOLS!
Destroying the sea floor to save the planet is like fighting wars to create peace . Only those who's greed for $
Is greater than need for a peaceful & prosperous planet to live on .
Hi Steve!