EU’s Blue Nodules project, which involves a host of different institutions and countries, focuses on a future of electric cars which to be achieved depend on mining, because of the crucial metals that exist on the ocean floor, as BBC reports.
Specifically, Laurens de Jonge, who’s running the EU project, says the transition to electric cars means that they need the ocean’s resources.
Demand is increasing through years for the metal cobalt, which is a basic ingredient in batteries and abundant in...
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