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