Han, "Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor"
English | ISBN: 1517915945 | 2024 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1517915945 | 2024 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB
How underwater mediation has transformed deep-sea spaces into resource-rich frontiers
Green energy technologies such as windmills, solar panels, and electric vehicles may soon depend on material found at the seabed. How did a space once imagined to be empty and unfathomable come to be thought of as a treasure trove of resources? Lisa Yin Han traces how contemporary developments in underwater sensing and imaging materially and imaginatively transmogrify the ocean bottom into a resource frontier capable of sustaining a digitally connected global future.
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