Gerard Barron Executive Chairman and CEO of The Metals Company #TMC recently joined the Morning Drive to share the company’s story, and what a story they have: Developing the world’s largest estimated source of battery metals, with enough nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese to electrify the entire U.S. passenger vehicle fleet.
The Metals Company aim is to supply the low-impact metals necessary to store clean energy and power electric vehicles, and to in turn create a closed-loop system—a world where metals are not mined and dumped, but rented and returned. If we use these metals to make electric car batteries—as well as for renewable energy storage, wind turbines and solar panels-we can dramatically reduce environmental and social impacts for the whole planet.
Our plan is simple and attainable: supply the necessary metals with the least possible impact, building enough metal stock to stop extracting from the planet and enabling society to live off recycled metals.
The Metals Company was formed through the merger of DeepGreen Metals Inc. with the Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corporation.
Video footage from trials [good footage of collector on seafloor and nodules up the pipe]: https://vimeo.com/778303976
Footage of nodules on the seafloor: https://vimeo.com/641849006/9dd671cc1e
Home Page – The Metals Company
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I thought it was Bono.? haha great vid.
I wish I could get a poly metallic nodule paper weight. Super cool