Sustain What?
Can (and Should) Seabed Metals Fill the Renewable-Energy Materials Gap?
Join veteran climate journalist Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a reporter debrief on the fight over exploiting the seafloor as a source of metals critical to the global “clean” energy race.
Guests include:
Olive Heffernan (@O_Heffernan), a journalist with a Ph.D. in marine ecology, is writing a book on ocean resource/conservation conflict. Her 2019 story “Deep Sea Dilemma” in Nature is a great start: https://go.nature.com/3CpKxBw
Daniel Ackerman (@DAckermanNews), who has meshed an ecology Ph.D. with fine mult-media journalism skills, spent months reporting a fantastic How to Save a Planet podcast episode on seabed mining (just before Spotify abruptly canceled the pocast):
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/z3hjxg6/should-we-mine-the-deepsea
Jael Holzman (@jholz__) covers mining and related issues for Politico/E&E News:
https://www.eenews.net/staff-directory/jael-holzman/
More may join.
Please click here for more information and viewing options: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/can-and-should-seabed-metals-fill-the-renewable-energy-materials-gapquestion
A bit of context from the Department of Energy on efforts to change the battery game:
Reducing Reliance on Cobalt for Lithium-ion Batteries https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/reducing-reliance-cobalt-lithium-ion-batteries
