Can This Organism Save the Planet?
Helllo!! You’ve made it to Friday! Hope you had a great week. Here’s my newest video, three quotes, and three links all about seaweed farming. Enjoy!!
Three Quotes:
“…Seaweed aquaculture does not yet have a scale that would support a global role in climate change mitigation, it has a strong potential CO2 sequestration intensity of about 1,500 tons CO2 km−2 year−1, corresponding to the annual CO2 emissions of about 300 Chinese citizens.”
— Carlos Duarte et al.
“Kelp grows faster than most terrestrial plants—up to two feet per day—meaning it absorbs more carbon, faster. It can sequester carbon when it floats out to sea and sinks to the ocean floor, where it tends to remain.”
— Civil Eats
“In China, harmful algal blooms (HABs) along the coast have been effectively mitigated by large-scale cultivation of the red algae G. lemaneiformis and P. yezoensis”
— Gretchen S. Grebe et al.
Three Links:
Can Small Seaweed Farms Help Kelp Scale Up? (Civil Eats)
Can Seaweed Farming Play a Role in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation? (Carlos M. Duarte et al.)
Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the science (MIT Technology Review)
Hope you have a wonderful rest of the week,
Charlie