Profound Scientific Discovery: Deep Ocean Floor Rocks Electrolyze Water Producing “Dark Oxygen”

Just heard this story today! This could be WILD!

If you want the reduction of oil and gas this is the price

soooo add that to the stromolites which are rocks with bacteria in them that create oxygen...and that's deep water, shallow water and land (green plants) producing O2. pretty cool.

Rusting iron can replace the tiny amount of oxygen it produces.

This is the gods testing and goading our intelligence. Too many selfish mistakes and we’re goners. Not responsible enough for our own footprint.

As usual, the human race will raid another resource on earth, which will cause an imbalance. Can the human race ever truly make energy, etc, without causing destruction???

Ooo no ... we need many more papers on this asap, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof

humans will destroy themselves that is now evident.

Howard Hughes in the United States government had the same story, they said that there were mining but in fact they were salvaging a Russian submarine.

Population reduction is the only way to fix this climate and supply issue. It's time to talk about family planning globally and offer contraception everywhere.

And literally BILLIONS of people will look the other way and just allow the mining.
Maybe complain a little.

I believe there needs to be more emphasis on non battery electric vehicles. Those nodules on the ocean floor shouldn't be mined in my opinion. The long term damage may be irreversible and devistating. There are claims of super high output solar panels under development. Whether the claims are true only time will tell. But either way I believe a breakthrough like that can open up the possibility of batteryless electric vehicles. Also I propose a worlwide solar grid along with wind so power can be transferred from the sunny side of our earth to the dark side. Simple lol 😂 no more batteries needed. Batteries are a necessity but we need to limit our use as much as possible in my opinion.

Is this "dark oxygen" being produced chemically or are there biological/ microbes producing the gas?

Would be good if folks didn't mine them then. When money is more important than the ocean, we are doomed.

Exactly how is potential difference in voltage created?

Well Paul, this isn't really any surprise. We have known that this is happening for decades. Oxygen rich hydrothermal springs and seeps of both high and low salinity are common both on the deep ocean floor, and in habitats like the subglacial lake systems eh Vostok.
There are a myriad of extremphiles and geothermal bacteria that utilise a variety of processes to do this, eg the ones that Utilise oxidation of Fe2+ to Fe 3+ to make oxygen and have protein nanowires that can be 20m + long and hundreds of times more conductive than silver or copper to make use of the electrochemical potential.
There are also bacteria mats and stromatilite like cones that use acidic and alkaline stratified geothermal layers to achieve the same results.
Lots of hogwash papers have tried to claim that these subglacial lake ecosystems are somehow using light levels some 1000x lower than a cloudy day passing through hundreds of metres of ice to produce the Oxygen by photosynthesis. 🙄🤭😂. But it's no secret amongst the scientists in New Zealand that study our geothermal spring ecologies, and the geothermal corals that have been stupidly claimed to be abiotic slow crystalizing silicates that make things like the now in hole at bottom of lake pink and white terraces. That CERTAINLY WERE NOT NATURALLY FORMED, BTW.
They took centuries of careful observation and humans working with these natural organisms to perfect to what they were before the Maori invasion.
Growing these terraces is one of my hobbies. And if you have very sulphurous like ph2 geothermal water, you need to put bits of scrap iron in amongst the dams of bits of rock and silicates, to give them something to electrically eat. And make the stone or the water just dissolves it away. 🙄

i was in Betio Tarawa April of 1979 and met Captain Bill Austin and his research sailing ship Machaias, he had a charter to collect these nodules.

This is truly amazing! Over the years divers would go deeper and show photos of never before seen sea creatures and now we have more info about their ability to survive at great depth. Thank you for this!

What a surprise, life is electric, just like the universe.

This NOT breaking news and it is not a new discovery ! the suns energy and rays makes oXygen by breaking H20 apart when hitting earth so this is a false statement at the beginning that this is the first mechanism discovered nor is the earth as battery new it is a highly developed theory as it pertains to origins of life. Dr. Eric Smith's Origins of life this new book describes at length including his presentation on you tube the details of oxygen production by cosmic rays breaking H20 into hydrogen and oxygen and now this new production on the ocean floor will add to his books established veracity on his groundbreaking origin of life theory

What would keep these nodules charged? If they are actively producing oxygen, then they are spending whatever chemical energy they have. What would replenish this energy? Radioactive decay? Some other process?

Also, photosynthesis does create a use for CO2 byproduct. This electrolysis does not.

Did they search for hydrogen and then look whether the stoichiometry was correct?

The global electric circuit can also be a source of the electrical potential traveling through these nodules.

It's a very interesting revelation.
But I hope you are aware that CO2 never preceded global warming, always followed the warming of the oceans which hold 54 times more CO2 than is currently in the atmosphere.
CO2 is not a driver of global warming and you as a scientist with integrity (one would hope) will not propagate the "CO2 global temperature knob"falsehood.

😊 Again very interesting!

Ocean Ecology is VERY FRAGILE and existential to all life on Earth. LEAVE IT ALONE

Paul, in Geology 101, professors teach 1st year students the life of rocks. From basalt to silicone. Rocks produce oxygen. This is basic knowledge for any student taking a geology course. Volcanic activity produces oxygen.

Who the frack started calling it ' Dark Oxygen ?' Deep Oxygen. Ocean Oygen, Deep Sea Oxygen but like the tech world all has to be the hype words of the day. I am sure fellow physicists seeing all of the Dark Oxygen headlines had flashes of the absurdity of WIMPS and gimcrack producing oxygen like some weird surreal dystopian present. Even those who tell others fall for the hype that caused pollution and climate change to start with.

Mmmm... make money by exploiting a resource previously not considered valueable enough to mine, potentially destroying ocean foodweb and therefore seafood industry, or accept the mining rights risk taken didn't financially pan out.

We don't need those minerals. We can totally decarbonize simply using nuclear power (updated with the last half century of innovation). We can make carbon neutral synthetic transportation fuel with H from water and C from the environment. As long as we make industrial quality energy 10x cheaper we can solve all "intractable" problems.

There are many other reasons not to mine the sea floor. They want to pump up the rocks and sediment, and relrase the sediment close to the surface. This and the turbation caused byt the the machinery on the sea floor will kill the filter feeders.

The nodules themselves is also habitat for many of the organisms that live there.

Norway's initiative to mine "cold" sea floor vents would even release plumes of fine particles which contain heavy metals.

We don't need to mine the sea floor If we share the mineral resources we have fairly so that the global south can get acces to renewable energy. This means that the material economic growth in developed countries has to slow down, and in some countries it has to stop.

It's not impossible, we have experienced rapid cultural changes before.

The oxygen is produced by the total mass of the nodules or by their surface area, because if by the area you can create artificial high surface nodules with 1% the nodules mined

Some bacteria eat radioactive decay energy so that can cause some "photosynthesis. ". There is a lot of bacteria in Earth's crust that are not part of the solar energy system. Plenty of energy flux from radiation and sulfur chemical exchange.

It won't matter. Homo annihilatus will take everything until nothing is left.

This is only one company of several, and some have already started mining.

It's simple: they will be mined by corporate oligarchs because all they care about are their profits.

Appears some say that Nodule growth is one of the slowest of all known geological phenomena, on the order of a cm over several million years.

I wonder if they can line the ocean floor with aluminum wire and run like 50V through it to increase the growth rate of the nodules. Then they could farm both the minerals and oxygen for us to breathe at the same time.

Dig baby dig! We need to dig up the entire earth to "save it".

We don't need these materials for batteries anymore. Ergo, the company Sakuu shows us the way.

Don't kill I

I heard they did a study that was similar to this nodule collection and 25 years later the ecosystem still hasn't come back to the way it was before they did the mining.

No, I will not join x. Too much excrement on there.

Since when have mining companies cared about the environment or the future??

This reminds of a product that is ready to be used. Just like trees in the forest are ready to be used for house building. They could make a synthetic version of these nodules in the lab but it will cost money. Scientists will need to figure out how the nodules got there.

Very soon human's will work out that what we actually know about our planet we can write on the back of a PHD given out by the great OZ

If history is a glimpse of what will happen in this case, the mining companies interests will far outway any preservation of environment in the name of profit. Until the planet can afford lobbyists and have friends in high government positions, polluters and exploiters will win

geing an electrician by trade ,...My head is "whorled",.....
what does it mean for static charges, lightnings, and simply a host of other questions come to mind,....
Very interesting find MrBeckwith,..

You know what, I really like you Paul, you seem like a great down to earth very knowledgeable dude. If I lived near to you I’d be hassling you to go for a pint with me, luckily for you I live in the U.K.! Take care man, big respect. 🫡 👍 🇬🇧