Meet the man mining the ocean for electric car battery metals #TheAgenda
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There’s a hidden cost in the electric car boom and it’s the potential harm to our environment from methods used to mine the necessary metals to power them.
Gerard Barron is CEO and Chairman of DeepGreen (soon to be known as The Metals Company) which recovers these metals from the ocean floor instead of on land. He tells Stephen he believes there are enough on the seabed to power a global electric transport system.
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