Key points
- CEO Gerard Barron answers a question from Mandy Weese, HSE Advisor and Paramedic aboard the Maersk Launcher, on how he would explain DeepGreen’s work to a class of kindergarteners.
- Barron frames the company’s seafloor polymetallic nodules as a supply of metals needed to build electric car batteries and to store energy from windmills and solar panels.
- He contrasts collecting nodules from the seafloor with mining metals by cutting down rainforests, saying nodule collection lets forests and biodiversity recover.
- Barron describes the company’s mission as bringing the nodules to shore and turning them into battery materials.
