Delft Allseas Designs Bottom Seeker and Resists Environmental Criticism: 'Deep-Sea Mining Necessary to Extract Scarce Metal Batteries'

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Allseas, Edward Heerema's offshore company, is pushing ahead with a controversial technological innovation: deep-sea mining for the collection of manganese nodules packed with scarce metals. Opponents say that should be done on land first. "But the energy transition requires a huge amount of metal, especially for batteries, which will soon be much less available on land. The world has few alternatives. And it can be done responsibly," claims CEO…