Can kiny metal rocks at the deepest, deepest access make oxygen in the absence of sunlight?
Some scientists think so, but other people have challenged the claim that the so -called “dark oxygen” is originating in a mild abyss of seabed.
The discovery in the search for the Giosines Journal last July is called in long-standing assumptions about the origin of life on the elaborate, and gave rise to intensive scientific debate.
Conclusions were also resulting for mining companies which were eager to remove precious metals contained within these polymethetic nodules.
Researchers stated that potato -shaped nodules can produce enough electric current to divide seawater into hydrogen and oxygen, a process known as electrolysis.
It is suspected on a long -established approach that life was possible when organisms started production of oxygen through photosynthesis, which required sunlight about 2.7 billion years ago.
Scottish Association for Marine Science said in a press release with the publication of research, “Deep-C is questioned in Discovery Life of Life.”
Delicate ecosystem
Environmentalists stated that the presence of dark oxygen showed how little is known about life at these extreme depths, and their case supported their case that deep sea mining faced unacceptable ecological risks.
The environment organization said, “Greenpeace has long been campaigned in the Pacific to prevent deep maritime mining from the beginning, as it can damage delicate, dark ecosystems.”
“This incredible discovery underlines the urgency of that call”.
The discovery was made in the Clarian-Cliparton Zone, which is a growing interest for mining companies in a spacious water area of ​​the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii.
Polymethelic nodules scattered at four kilometers (2.5 miles) below the surface have metals used in manganese, nickel and cobalt, electric car batteries and other low-carbon technologies.
Research that gives birth to the discovery of dark oxygen was partially funded by a Canadian deep-C mining business, Metals Company, which wanted to assess the ecological impact of such investigations.
This has rapidly criticized the study of sea ecologists Andrew Sweetman and his team being stricken by “Methodological Falls”.
Michael Clarke, Environment Manager of the Metals Company, told AFP that the conclusions are “more logically responsible for poor scientific techniques and shoddy science, which is never compared to the ever seen incident.”
Scientific doubt
Sweetman’s findings proved to be explosives, to express reservation in many scientific communities or reject conclusions.
Since July, five educational research papers refuting Sweetman’s findings have been presented for review and publication.
“He did not present a clear evidence for his comments and hypothesis,” said Germany’s Jail Research, a biochemist Maithius Hekel, a Biochemist of Geomar Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research.
“There are many questions after the publication. Therefore, now the scientific community needs to conduct equal experiments etc., and either prove or dislike it.”
Olivier Rukel, a geochemistry researcher at Iprimer, French National Institute for Ocean Science and Technology, AFP reported that “there was absolutely no consensus on these results”.
He said, “Deep-C sampling is always a challenge,” he said, it was possible that oxygen was detected in the “stranded air bubbles” measuring devices.
He was also doubting about the nodules of the deep-sea, some tens of millions of years old, still produce enough electric current when “battery moves out quickly”.
“How is it possible that the ability to generate electric current in a nodule should be maintained which is extremely slow to create itself?” He asked.
When contacted by AFP, Sweetman indicated that he was preparing a formal response.
“This type of front and back are very common with scientific articles and it carries forward the subject,” he said.
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