Japan looks to enhance economic security through marine development

CH4 is a potent greenhouse gas.

Have the LDP no recourse to scientific knowledge?

In the wake of Russian invasion of Ukraine and EU's struggle to free themselves from dependence on Russian oil and gas, it became clear that this is a national security matter, particularly for a resource-poor nation like Japan. Luckily, various recent studies on marine resources around Japan show some promises.

In 2018, researchers estimated rare-earth oxides of yttrium, europium, terbium, and dysprosium for a promising area in Japan’s exclusive economic zone could account for 62, 47, 32, and 56 years of annual global demand, respectively, and Japan decided to dip a toe into its deep sea.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-020-00528-8

[T]he environmental impacts in the deep sea may be offset by one very important benefit, says Lusty. They could be a more carbon-efficient source of metals than those found on land.... “These [seafloor] deposits are sometimes much richer in metals than comparable deposits we are currently mining on land,” says Lusty. “Therefore less ore should be required to produce the same amount of metals – and less mining and crushing and grinding means reduced energy consumption.”

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181221-japans-grand-plans-to-mine-deap-sea-vents#:~:text=Near%20these%20dormant%20sites%2C%20the,country's%20demand%20for%20basic%20metals.

First dump radiation in the sea along Tohoku and Kaneto, then now, extract oil, gas and dangerous chemicals from the bottom of the sea where there are devastating annual typhoons and sometimes massive tsunamis, and constantly moving fault lines and regular earthquakes…

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