“Seaweeds grow very quickly, especially when supplied with nutrient-rich deep water. In the vast, currently unused subtropical gyres, large seaweed farms can be created that permanently remove CO? and create new marine habitats,” the report summarizes. “The biomass produced can replace fossil fuels and fossil fuel based raw materials as well as increase global food security. This creates a sustainable marine economy — with opportunities especially for countries in the Global South and for funding large scale carbon removal.”
I encourage you to dive into the full policy paper.
Convert the sea weed into methane and pump it underground into existing natural gas wells. It will stay there for a 1000 years if need. And if needed you can use it for heating, and power. And some can be kept underground as an emergency reserve. You can also make liquid fuels and plastics from methane. And you can easily convert plastic into methane.
Converting plants and seaweed into methane is being done commercially today on a limited scale. And it has been demonstrated that cooking plastic in water under heat and pressure does convert the plastic to methane or liquid fuels. The only reason we arenot doing it is because it is always cheaper to find fossil deposit and drill a well. But with peak oil production expected by 2030 (it might have already happened) and peak natural gas probably around 2050 it will eventually become economically viable.
Terrestrial composting is the primo soil enhancer. No need for synthetic fertilizers. Thus is proven. Land derived organic nutrients exist in massively unused and under utilized quantities… for mostly geopolitical reasons emanating from FF/.gov machinations.
Unless We the People, globally, are able to rid ourselves of the dark siders… our choice becomes: Are we stewards or just deathly wasteful sewers.
The seaweed factor is so important to our existence. What Hans-Josef Fell reached out to Zach for is one of the tools in the tool box for environmental remediation, healing, recovery and a basic solution that must be brought to the fore. We have others, as well, yet this is a great place to start.
There may be ways of quickly salting and drying them up passively, under the sun and the wind, on a very dry salt desert, before decomposition happens – same exact process used on lots of products like meat, fish, leather etc.
In that case, a very good option would be to grow them on the Chilean Pacific Ocean and transport just a few dozen miles up mountain, to the dry salt lakes up the Atacama desert.