Huge Underwater Tellurium Find - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 14, 2017, 10:58:56 am
content: Cheaper low EMF connectors cominghttp://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39347620

author: rob77
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 14, 2017, 12:11:28 pm
content: < extremely wild speculation >incredibly high concentration of rare elements on a top of a underwater mountain which might have been an island in the distant past ?rare elements possibly coming from melted advanced technology ? hmm... Atlantis anyone ?< /extremely wild speculation >

author: Vtile
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 14, 2017, 09:36:58 pm
content: Quote from: rob77 on April 14, 2017, 12:11:28 pmSounds legit.

author: hamster_nz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 14, 2017, 09:46:19 pm
content: If only it is another Glomar Explorer cover story. The C.I.A cover story made it into the BBC's Tomorrows World book I have as an example of how the future is here.

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2017, 05:17:30 am
content: Screw sea life. I want awesome connectors! Could you imagine the effort to mine at those depths. Even just stripping off the top layer would be a monumental task. The real question is though, who will do it first. If the west does not do it, China will and you know how much they care about the environment.

author: PointyOintment
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2017, 05:25:55 am
content: If stirring up dust does turn out to be a big problem, contrary to the result of their experiment, could they enclose the mining equipment in a filter-equipped dome?

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2017, 07:23:53 am
content: Fiction becomes reality...http://www.tomswift.info/homepage/selector.html

author: Kleinstein
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2017, 08:44:16 am
content: The copper tellurium connectors need only very little tellurium. The bigger use is for thermoelectric cooling.Looking for deep see mining is not that new. Though the new thing is finding / speculating about tellurium. Usually the metals they were looking for are more like copper and nickle and they find a lot of manganese. If they found a significant amount of something else, this could still be a non typical spot or sample. It is a good thing that nor all ore is equal.There are a few elements that might get rare (low in supply) in the future: Indium, Gallium, Tellurium, Cobalt, Bismuth and maybe worst Phosphorous. So it is natural to look in the oceans if you can't find some on land.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2017, 06:40:51 pm
content: Well, undersea volcano, rich deposit that is thin, so likely it came from a crustal blob of lava that was burped out a while ago, so there probably is more still there inside the magma chamber. Better be careful not to do a similar thing to Anak Krakatoa there though, mid Atlantic will be a really bad place to have essentially a multi megaton bomb go off a kilometer under water.

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 17, 2017, 01:25:45 pm
content: Quote from: rdl on April 15, 2017, 07:23:53 amWow, I had thought I read all those, but apparently the local public library when I was a kid didn't have them all. Pretty sure I've hit up all the old original ones - even have one in hardback that was published in the 1920's. Somehow also had a Tom Swift Jr one from the 50's, the Ocean Airport one. Finding those in the attic as mush as anything kindled my early interest in SF. In 5th grade I believe it was, we had to write stories, which then tied in with art class where we bound them and made covers. Mine were very much in the style of Tom Swift books, including the captions on the illustrations I drew (poorly - never could draw, still can't). First one dealt with how a pilot discovered he could land on the top of a cloud which led the to development of cloud labs to study the upper atmosphere. The sequel took place far to the future and had space labs including one on the moon and one on an asteroid.

author: Messtechniker
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 17, 2017, 02:04:46 pm
content: Quote from: Kleinstein on April 15, 2017, 08:44:16 amWe find here on German beaches regularly lumps of phosphorous from bombs which were dumped after WW2 in the seas around Germany.So there should be plenty around in the seas. Maybe eventually we Germans could make a lot of money here. Looking for a long term investment?Pocketing these lumps is very dangerous as they ignite when exposed to air. Absolutely nasty to have your crown jewels grilled.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 17, 2017, 03:11:27 pm
content: Quote from: rrinker on April 17, 2017, 01:25:45 pmMe as well, must look to see if i can get more. I was using the adult side of the library at probably 12 already, had read the junior side totally by then.