Discovering Dark Oxygen - How oxygen is produced in the deep sea

[@djraptorx]

This may very well be the most important discovery in the last 100 years

[@Defacement4]

Nah anti gravity

[@ARISE24]

i agree this is big

[@glintongordon6811]

When was that discovered? ​@@Defacement4

[@Dankman42069]

I mean they already know how to separate hydrogen and oxygen trough electrolysis. But it is amazing that it happens naturally

[@glintongordon6811]

@@Dankman42069 does it convert carbon dioxide back to oxygen, if yes it could be used on space ships

[@Sweets_ultra]

Words can’t comprehend other than what an amazing discovery. My mind can’t fathom just how incredible this is.

[@_unruly]

This is bad, corporations and their greed are going to ruin everything about the ecosystem trying to mine it.

[@Sweets_ultra]

@@_unruly yeah, that’s the sad truth isn’t it? Greed is our downfall

[@MasterJongXG]

@@_unruly why would they mine it? like what benefit will they get from it?

[@romanmaglic4117]

This discovery changes the view of science and brings changes in the understanding of nature, the sea, and the importance of bacteria in deep ecosystems. Congratulations!

[@Slurm_Daddy92]

It's bizarre that electrolysis is a naturally occurring phenomenon..

[@SixOhFive]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. I want to know what is catalyzing this reaction

[@nupurrrr3876]

​@@SixOhFive Polymetallic nodules

[@Thoran666]

We should stop put an immediate stop on collecting those metals until we know more. I fear greed will win once again and future generations have to pay the price.

[@lancemorgan5357]

Congrats, a fabulous bit of science. Such an important insight into our planet!

[@richarddeveas4537]

Flawed insight and conclusion. But, this is salt water not fresh water. Electrolysis in salt actually produces Hydrogen and chlorine. Why doesn't he addresses this! It's basic chemistry! Until he does his claims are highly suspicious! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKrZgZacpKx9itk and there is this kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z33bgqyDeq1jgKc Turning Ocean Water into Chlorine Bleach | How To Make Bleach, Hydrogen Gas, or Smurf Juice kzbin.info/www/bejne/enWZdnicZtBkrpo

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

The nodules are made from iron, maganese hydroxide core.😮🎉 (Precious metal of the deep sea)

[@effingsix3825]

Iron and Manganese are called ‘base metals’, and widely available in the earth’s crust. There may be SOME minuscule amounts of precious metals salts that leach out onto the rock, but it would not be in greater proportion than is found in the crust Why the nodules are made of specific metals through the accretion process is for a geologist to enumerate.

[@TheLotan]

Life, uh, finds a way

[@TheAngryAtheist]

must go faster, must go faster.

[@warrenr533]

life on Europa/Triton 100%

[@agentbarron3945]

europa isnt "ice" or "frozen water" its a methane sea, with the top being frozen, so this doesnt confirm life there. But its incredibly possible that theres something completely alien to us there. Everything living on earth either uses oxygen, or produces oxygen. Some things live in very low oxygen enviroments to the point where its called arobic (no oxygen) but it still uses a little. for something to live there it could possibly consume methane to produce energy or something. but that doesnt happen on earth.

[@Rosskles]

​@@agentbarron3945 Ganymeade shows promise.

[@airchaic]

Forr real

[@prashantyadav4739]

Woooww..sweetmans sweetest discovery of the decade😮

[@TSSmith]

This is very big in the pursuit of a fuller understanding of abiogenesis

[@shadowlancer45]

Thanks mate that is the word i am looking for.

[@mynameisChizzle]

There are so much we don't know and yet so many of us are so arrogant about what little we know.

[@Rhatss]

Just stunning. This changes a lot of what we thought we knew.

[@LrielYT]

this will definitely change are perspective of how life began on earth

[@aredhead36]

How long did they take to make? That's my question, as I'm fearful what the energy companies would try to do with them.

[@Gelatinocyte2]

Not energy companies, EV and Battery (electronics) companies.

[@JasonEarl-j4w]

Great question. That's my only interest, what they'll do with it. Hello there, how are you?

[@petersiracusa5281]

What is the energy source?

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

Woah they enclosed the area and the nodules oxygen were increasing is insane. this is the ocean floor we are talking about as well😮

[@andreaandersen2696]

Amazing discovery!

[@Ghetto_Meadow]

hopefully the shrimp farts don't start to pile up...

[@whiplash6548]

I remember thinking when i was little, what if you could combine hydrogen and oxygen to make clean water? Later of course i learned those processes take millions of years, the splitting and combining of compounds. This completely changes that perception, and has really incredible implications

[@TramNguyen-qt5gv]

I hope humans don't exploit this material too much and bring it to the surface due to replace oxygen created by tree

[@maxredjasper55]

Knowing humanity, the people and corporations will screw it up BIG TIME. These nodules should have stayed hidden.

[@koppii2]

trees are actually already being replaced by micro-algae in cities since it looks modern and more effective

[@koppii2]

though it is still unlikely to happen since trees purpose is to not only suck in co2 but to actually decorate the city

[@CandyThePuppy]

​@@koppii2 they look hecka ugly tho

[@Venti_ehe0_0]

​​@@koppii2 Not just "decorative", It's a Tough Standing Object, and also capable of Absorbing Floods, Well, Flood Water can be absorbed by Trees by their roots, they improve soil and Preventing of Soil Erosion

[@michaelclarke1261]

“Haeckel also notes that nearly 2 decades ago, his team, using the same landers as Sweetman, thought it detected oxygen production on the sea floor-but it turned out to be trapped air bubbles.”

[@rocketleaguegaming2211]

anyone else getting goosebumps from that last sentence ?

[@rolandyamel6376]

My question would be how are they continuing to produce voltages even if they've been down there for millions of years? How come they haven't discharged yet open completely used up? And then if that's the case can I use a few buckets full of them to power my house?😅

[@Fraxinity]

Science is truly elegant

[@FFSboise]

This should put the brakes on mineral exploration and extraction of minerals from these areas. Alas, I don't feel it will.

[@argilaga]

Where do the nodules come from? is this oxygen production sustained over time?

[@iambumpy]

My question is, are there other measurable gases being released by the sea floor such as methane?

[@michaelclarke1261]

“There is a high possibility that the paper is wrong,” says Kentaro Nakamura, a geochemist at the University of Tokyo who notes there’s no sign of elevated oxygen in the waters above the nodule region.”

[@masterrucu]

Expect this thing is one of the things will helps humanity in the farther future.

[@Jon6429]

Mangasnese nodules? I haven't heard them mentioned since that incident fifty years ago. You know, the one with the custom built mining ship, the CIA and half a Soviet submarine.

[@michaelclarke1261]

"One figure in the paper claims oxygen production in another nodule region but fails to disclose that, when those measurements were taken, no nodules were actually in the chamber."

[@DistrictMemories]

What is his name

[@shadowlancer45]

Congrats for discovering Sir. We, Humankind is indeed a young race We need to learn more about everything around us. Imagine for 11 years. I would also ignore it. Who would even think that a mere stone can accomplish such great feat that we thought only a biological unit can do. This is a revolutionary discovery esp. for biomedical technologists, environmentalists, philanthropists, engineers, and doctors. Imagine the massive editing of books about biology, paleontology, chemistry etc. This calls for a massive celebration of those who indulged themselves and endeavored the beauty and wonder of the world of science.

[@TheAfterLifePodzKastTheAfterLi]

🖤AweSome 👍

[@TheAfterLifePodzKastTheAfterLi]

Everything on this planet breathes out oxygen 😁

[@enderbread3159]

This editing is top notch

[@footfault1941]

No devastating consequence to the planet as cautioned in the footage!

[@masterkwiefe]

If they are going to mine it, They should be required to work out the amount of oxygen and life affected and be completely responsible for replacing the volume of oxygen produced with replanting and monitoring arrid/deforested areas along with establishing healthy reefs for life....

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

When i came into this i thought I'd see a volcanoe or something that erupted on the sea floor creating some type of oxygen, but sometimes its simple as this😮🎉

[@mikeoxmaul3526]

volcano

[@max_mel1]

But what is anode and cathode?

[@ZuulGatekeeper]

The different metals in the rock act as an anode & cathode that creates a negative-positive circuit allowing electrons to flow freely between them via an electrochemical reaction. Basically it's naturally occurring electrolysis with the free electrons breaking down H2O as they pass from the anode to the cathode producing Oxygen & Hydrogen.

[@thomas4315]

I live in Hawaii , it's simple, we have lave tubes and off the big island we uh discover fresh water is release from lava tube, off Honolulu had one too. A company tryed to used that water that very cold to cool off Honolulu downtown business building. They gave up. We have lot of water so it just wasted water.

[@Joe_Not_A_Fed]

Parts of the surface of Yemen, on a hard rock desert, 3000 feet above sea level (but formerly significantly below sea level) are littered with rocks that have a microscopically thin, black, manganese, coating.

[@kingbeast4914]

Raise Your Hand If You Like Breakthroughs!!!!!🙋🏻🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️✋🏻🤚🏻🖐🏻👋🏻🙌🏻

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

4:29 it looks like a clam cemetery down there i cant tell if its rocks as it so sandy😮

[@rohanaj15]

So you find oxygen and the 1st thought for potential countries/corporations is to mine it for "green energy"? Great discovery but horrible use case.

[@roarbahamut9866]

That is literally not what he said. You are either misunderstanding or making it up. He literally said that "we" as in humanity should think about whether we actually continue mining the sea floor....

[@rohanaj15]

@@roarbahamut9866 I inferred something completely different from what was said in that case. Exploration can be done by either corporations or countries through corporations.

[@scottbrady9477]

If the molecule of water is being split by the process of electrolysis, then where's the hydrogen

[@magnanimus1150]

What a coincidence they wanted to mine offshore nickel.. just when we find out there's oxygen production on sea floors

[@LauhityaReddy]

Are you related to meetKevin?

[@rudyberkvens-be]

Good move to forbid deep ocean mining. How much of it is intentionally constructed with this objective in mind?

[@robertjsmith]

Yeah,but the mining companies will be wanting these nodules for batteries?

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

4:18 holy shih the deep ocean dark as ever😮

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

It's a nodules sea bed😮🎉 holy shi

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

My Chemistry is quite old, but I thought I remembered that using current to split Sea Water produces Chlorine Gas?

[@IchGukNurZu]

NaCl needs 4, 07 Volts to split H2O 1,23Volts. But in the Moment a Current flows there is a lost voltage over inner resistance so without letting a current flow just measuring a voltage in series with a high resistance in the meter doesn‘t show that the voltage would be high enough for eletrolysis and the nodules,are kind of layered which would equipotential means no voltage difference throughout a layer. Removing them from their normal sourundings water with a certain composition and removing them from the ground might enable a chemical reaction but that would stop a a certain point except the nodules would be a kind of perpetuum mobile.

[@eonreeves4324]

life is abundant throughout the universe. we are just kept in the dark because that is the will of the engineers

[@glintongordon6811]

Can we create these nodules artificially?

[@zekeaffy9647]

Yeah if we did, imagine the possibilities. Hydrogen being mass produced, making Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Hydrogen ICE more viable, they will become cheaper, higher demand of them, Hydrogen will finally become cheaper. I have done the calculations, with the range we can go with a single fill, EVs are going to be obsolete, lithium Ion BEVs production are going to slow down, they will suddenly become cheaper to compete with these Hydrogen Vehicles, Our infrastructure can be powered by Hydrogen for cheap.

[@Gelatinocyte2]

@@zekeaffy9647 they're talking about the nodules (those rocks), not hydrogen. So the question is actually dumb, for lack of a better word; it's like asking if we could make artificial ores.

[@JasonEarl-j4w]

@@zekeaffy9647 sounds interesting

[@zekeaffy9647]

@@Gelatinocyte2 I know, I thought if we can create/replicate/fabricate the nodules, mass produce it and use it to do electrolysis but with lower power consumption, hydrogen production is never cheaper until this discovery right now. Electrolysis requires ridiculous amounts of electrical power, but with these "artificial" nodules we might change the way we produce hydrogen forever. Im ecstatic.

[@shihabthebest9844]

This is gonna blow up. Just leaving my commentprint 👣

[@rebelofsociety7285]

The more you learn about science, unless you feel likely to confident that everything we know or absolutes. I think we barely understand one percent of everything we will ever need to know.

[@petervdbnz2]

Wasn't there a guy who claimed to run a car on water? Maybe he figured it out before

[@SixOhFive]

What’s funny is this seems like a no brainer; chemistry

[@raoultesla2292]

When the Manganese organic battery Nodule mining starts ALL will have great profit. Much much wealth to be made Mining the Sea Floor.

[@SuperFinGuy]

The electric universe theory predicted this years ago.

[@Boofi-quat]

Careful guys we don’t want this new knowledge interrupting any of the many grifts our friends are running. Surprised this wasn’t silenced outright.

[@richarddeveas4537]

But, this is salt water not fresh water. Electrolysis in salt actually produces Hydrogen and chlorine. Why doesn't he addresses this! It's basic chemistry! Until he does his claims are highly suspicious! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKrZgZacpKx9itk and there is this kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z33bgqyDeq1jgKc Turning Ocean Water into Chlorine Bleach | How To Make Bleach, Hydrogen Gas, or Smurf Juice kzbin.info/www/bejne/enWZdnicZtBkrpo

[@Baslium]

Can we artificially remake the process.

[@richarddeveas4537]

But, this is salt water not fresh water. Electrolysis in salt actually produces Hydrogen and chlorine. Why doesn't he addresses this! It's basic chemistry! Until he does his claims are highly suspicious! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKrZgZacpKx9itk and there is this kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z33bgqyDeq1jgKc Turning Ocean Water into Chlorine Bleach | How To Make Bleach, Hydrogen Gas, or Smurf Juice kzbin.info/www/bejne/enWZdnicZtBkrpo

[@SixOhFive]

Yes but it takes millions of years

[@mrvn000]

Que guapo!!

[@marks7502]

so dark

[@trstquint7114]

Many deep mining companies are more than ready to mine those manganese nodules as a raw material for batteries. Contracts are signed, nothing can stop them.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@WalkerOne]

I am always amazed when scientists discover something that they didn't know existed. I am amazed they thought they knew everything in the first place. So many times, we find out that scientists were ignoring things that were exceptions to what they were expecting, only to years later to find out that thing they were ignoring is something they didn't know existed. Scientists should go into every experiment, knowing 100 hundred years from now, we will look primitive to those scientists.

[@vittoema96]

First of all, i can assure you that a man of science never thinks he knows it all, most of the times it's the other way around Also, making new discoveries that help to fill in gaps in theories is what is expected of science Never settle for an explanation, always look for stuff that contradicts a theory so that we can see where and how our theory is wrong and make improvements to it Science is and must be always evolving

[@tsepodladla8963]

When the next generation thinks that the previous generation and its knowledge were quite primitive, it is a great thing; it shows that there has been progress and evolution as a species. This is a great discovery, and I hope it will lead to the embetterment of our society without the obliteration of another ecosystem.

[@richarddeveas4537]

But, this is salt water not fresh water. Electrolysis in salt actually produces Hydrogen and chlorine. Why doesn't he addresses this! It's basic chemistry! Until he does his claims are highly suspicious! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKrZgZacpKx9itk and there is this kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z33bgqyDeq1jgKc Turning Ocean Water into Chlorine Bleach | How To Make Bleach, Hydrogen Gas, or Smurf Juice kzbin.info/www/bejne/enWZdnicZtBkrpo

[@prashantyadav4739]

It could be true 8 yrs back😮

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

The nodules are made from iron, maganese hydroxide core.😮🎉

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

2:40 these things produce dark oxygen😮🎉(maganese nodules)

[@maguireclancy]

Wow

[@TheNecessaryEvil]

And mining down there for metals for green energy which no one wants or can afford oh and it will cause lots of damage.

[@Gelatinocyte2]

_"green energy which no one wants"_ Woah, there! That's not right; we NEED green energy to eliminate fossil fuel dependency. By the way, "green energy" includes fission and fusion power plants, as well as *hydroelectric* and *geothermal* plants.

[@TheNecessaryEvil]

@@Gelatinocyte2 climate change is a hoax. People are getting rich off you

[@nothinhappened]

It'll be taking all our plants jobs next. 😤

[@ReznaQay]

they should call this orichalcum

[@alaaldwairi7586]

oh my god

[@Paul-kd3ui]

Elucidate the chemical reaction, show the physics and equation ....or sh

[@LuisAldamiz]

Not just interesting for undersea mining, geobiology, etc. but such materials could also be used potentially to produce green oxygen from renewables (and water).

[@merteazy]

how is it "green" when its still messing up the planet? we just learned taht we ruined salt of all things. leave this new stuff alone 😮‍💨

[@maxredjasper55]

THIS ^. Mining will absolutely ruin these nodules and the entire ocean. Green technology is NOT as green as people make it out to be.

[@nathanielsmith8217]

If the floor has such metals and elements maybe it just started to regenerate oxygen 🤔 😳 as a back up like a generator or has been for millions of years untouched.But now wo t take long for world big shots to take all the precious things off the floor the sea even with what's going on with greenhouse won't last long into even 2100

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

3:14 😮 oh ok guys the thing he is experimenting on is the nodules, they then show us at the bottom ocean 4:25

[@SPANKGVNGBINESS]

The ocean floor eco system uses these nodules to breathe, aka dark oxygen. that was low-key an crazy experience to learn congrats guys😮🎉

[@GeorgeSweet]

Idk raping the garden of eden for placer deposits is crazy to me.

[@marvinreimer2073]

Wtf is this music? 😂🥴

[@seogabonotjah6555]

for me rather oxygen, they can split hydrogen, it could be used for future energy as fuel cells or synthetic fuels

[@lunzie01]

Are you serious in contemplating mining these nodules for the minerals when the O2 is needed by the creatures living down there???!? You should have kept your mouth shut... now every mining company will be salivating to strip mine yet another environment.

[@rudyberkvens-be]

Says a hoodie man, political activism dripping off of him.

[@zombie_cf4609]

So we could stop the rise of sea level by this way ? Actually question this. Like using the water for oxy

[@gordythecreator]

Imagine all the other Q?'s slipping under researcher's noses. STEP OUT THE BOX PPL! I'd drive y'all nuts on the boat. Ignoring a study loses the point of a STUDY..

[@manofmatter.yvezchannel]

In Spirituality, Consciousness and Soul does not refer Living and Non-Living Thing as On/Off Switch, but more like a Guage. Everything has a Soul, it just depends on how Conscious they are. Actually the Abiotic Resources you perceived are more Logically Structured and has greater Subconscious Mind while... Botic Resources you percieved are more Logically Unstructured and Conscious. Non-living dont have a choice Living have choices.

[@-mad-1869]

i personally subscribe to the 'everything is conscious to varying degrees' belief and that nothing is on or off, black white good bad etc. However, with all respect, did you not just void your entire post when u concluded with 'living has choice, non-living has no choice'? Thats on/off, right? Isn't it more like, less conscious less awareness, more consciousness more awareness? a scale? Thus even something not living, like say... plastic. Still has a minute degree of consciousness due to its atomic structure, but its so little its negligible and practically unaware. Would love your thoughts on the matter :)

[@nathanielsmith8217]

This will now allow man to turn the ocean's into a great salt lake and goodbye 👋 to humanity

[@kushalneupane6841]

Oxygen is oxygen don't call it with fancy name like dark one. Oxygen whether from chlorophyll or electricuted stone from sea floor it's still O2

[@Gelatinocyte2]

It was NICKNAMED dark oxygen not for the sake of giving it a "fancy name", but to SPECIFY where it comes from - which is the deep sea floor in this case, which is known for never receiving any sunlight. It's not "the dark one".

[@robertharbordhamond1559]

Where are the bubbles ? 😂😅😂 Stephen Hawking admitted to making up hundreds of radical theories on space and humanity just to get into the newspapers.

[@pnachtwey]

If O2 is being made, what about H2? Could this process be used to made H2.

[@TheAngryAtheist]

Christians are not going to like this one...

[@Gelatinocyte2]

You seem like a sock puppet. It's weird for an account that outright calls itself "Angry Atheist", and then leave an unrelated/irrelevant comment deliberately riling up a demographic and that's also a strawman-like statement as well.