• Cethin
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    10 months ago

    If it were that easy then it wouldn’t be an issue.

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      10 months ago

      I made that same observation some time back and the answer I got was: money.

      Why spend the money to develop a technology to harvest a mineral from the sea with probably minimal to no impact to the environment when you can simply use already existing tech and just open a hole in the ground?