John Storrs Hall - Nanotech Ocean Extraction

There's enough uranium in the world's oceans to power the world for thousands of years - along with trillions of dollars in rare materials. Josh Hall explains how nanotechnology can extract it, and discusses the benefits of seawater extraction. Over 4 billion tons of uranium is dissolved in the Earth’s oceans, which works out to over 100 quadrillion watt-years of energy. That’s enough to supply the current American 10 kw level of power to 10 billion people for 10,000 years. Uranium isn't the only material dissolved in seawater. For instance, Lithium is critical for smartphone & RV batteries - and the open-access journal Joule says while there are 43.6 Million tons of Lithium in land-sources, over 5,000 times that amount is dissolved in seawater at concentrations of 0.180 ppm. Another interesting one is platinum metal. Mining.com ran the article, "$16 trillion of platinum could be extracted from seawater", estimating there are over 300,000 tonnes of platinum dissolved in the world's oceans, at a concentration of 2.34E-10 grams per litre. In addition to minerals, seawater is also filled with organic materials such as fatty acids, aromatic & aliphatic compounds, alcohols, and more. From a nanotech perspective, harvesting these could provides us with a time & energy-saving shortcut to building larger complex organic molecules, right? I think it's important to contrast seawater extraction with traditional mining. In theory, this lets us avoid the infrastructure required for resource location, excavation & mining, materials separation, and waste product disposal. Rather than bringing the materials to the factory, we're immersing the factory into a material soup, more or less? I've been following the UAP Phenomenon lately, and I've wondered if the "tic tac" UAP observed off the Coast of California might be some kind of self-replicatin Von Neumann Probe. This is highly speculative, but if that turned out to be the case, could seawater extraction explain why this is all happening in the ocean? Another highly speculative question is whether NASA could use this principle in our own space program. For instance, there are salt brines on Mars, Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa may both have liquid oceans capped with ice. Rather than trying to mine & refine resources on these planets, could future probes extract critical fuel, energy, or other chemicals from their oceans? John Storrs "Josh" Hall , award-winning subject matter expert, thought leader and influencer in the field of molecular nanotechnology. Josh is the author of Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology, a fellow of the Molecular Engineering Research Institute, Research Fellow of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, founding Chief Scientist at Nanorex, and former president of the Foresight Institute. Josh is an editor of the Technology Roadmap for Artificial General Intelligence, Associate Editor for the International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computatio, and contributor to the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems. He was awarded the 2007 Bela Kornitzer Prize for Nanofuture, the 2006 Foresight Nanotech Institute Communications Prize for Nanofuture, and is the originator of Nanotech "Smart Dust" or "Utility Fog". LINKS & RESOURCES: Where is My Flying Car? (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09H478XG4/ Nanofuture: What's Next For Nanotechnology https://www.amazon.com/Nanofuture-Nanotechnology-J-Storrs-Hall/dp/1591022878 Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FL3TLO/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 Lithium in Seawater https://www.cell.com/joule/pdfExtended/S2542-4351(20)30235-X Platinum in Seawater https://www.mining.com/16-trillion-worth-of-platinum-could-be-extracted-from-seawater-41086/ Novel Compounds in Ocean Trenches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater