A normal hydrothermal vent might produce something like 500 megawatts, while this is producing 100,000 megawatts. It's like an atom bomb down there.
Hmmmm...thats a lot of energy, but it would be difficult to harness, right?
...and then there is the "precious!"
They have determined, for example, that the vents are hotspots for precious metals, such as silver, gold, zinc, and copper.
As yet, these resources lie beyond the reach of commercial interests because mining the ocean floor strains the bottom line.
"The cost of working in the deep ocean is so extreme," explained Reves-Sohn of Woods Hole. "We have the same problem in the scientific community. We don't get to go to look at these places as much as we'd like."
I bet if you tapped this source you would really f up the ocean circulation causing even more atmospheric chaos.
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