[HN Gopher] Seaweed could become an airline biofuel
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       Seaweed could become an airline biofuel
        
       Author : djklanac
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2021-11-28 22:02 UTC (59 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
        
       | dflock wrote:
       | AFAIK, seaweed farming at scale is the best know way to remove
       | carbon from the ocean - which is desperately needed to reverse
       | acidification. Farming seaweed for food is good, but you have to
       | build the market a lot too. Cattle feed and biofuels would be
       | great drivers of scale for this.
        
       | lucideer wrote:
       | My first thought seeing this was "seaweed sequesters carbon;
       | harvesting it isn't carbon neutral and doing so at mass scale
       | would do enormous damage"
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       | But I decided to read the article anyway and was initially glad
       | to see they addressed this in the first half: describing the
       | carbon sequestering properties.
       | 
       | They then proceed to completely ignore that in the second half of
       | the article, and provide no explanation of how harvesting it at
       | scale would not be disastrous.
        
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