An island of floating brown Sargassum seaweed
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The massive query, within the mid-Twenty first century, wasn’t find out how to transition away from fossil fuels – that course of turned self-propelling as renewable vitality turned ever cheaper – however find out how to get carbon dioxide out of the environment.
In the long run, attaining the Nice Drawdown, because it turned recognized, required many various approaches, together with organic, chemical and technological strategies of removing. This dispatch examines two options that used the under-appreciated, near-magical energy of seaweed: one via robotics and the opposite via bioengineering. The robotic ate huge algal blooms; the genetic engineering method modified a…
