Green Transportation May Well Depend on the Success of Deep-Sea Mining
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 17, 2023
In 2018, a study conducted by MIT students on the impacts of deep-sea nodule mining found that sediment released from midwater plumes mixed rapidly with surrounding ocean water due to the turbulence of the release. Within the same study, they developed a formula to calculate the scale of the impact depending on the ocean’s turbulence.
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