Seaweed shows promise in climate change fight

Published 2024-08-01
Once seen as an organism fouling shellfish aquaculture, seaweed is considered a valuable and sustainable commercial product feeding a growing demand, Max Darrow reports. (8-1-24)

All Comments (17)
  • @Sparklfoot
    What a great report. This is good development. I’ve worked with seaweed harvesters in Mendocino county where it’s taken from the rocks on the seaside.
  • @dfirth224
    Seaweed is commercially grown off San Diego. It's harvested with something that looks like a floating hay harvester.
  • @Rascal77s
    I've long been a fan of seaweed for food. If they can't figure out what to do with it ask japan. CA has the perfect geography to make it a major crop. The people weirded out by it are the ones who never tried it.
  • @alyssao.9577
    Unfortunately, in central and southern California, seaweed is often contaminated from toxic agal / bacterial blooms. :'( but sometimes its okay during the winter / early spring
  • that Red Seaweed is being sold in Australia as cattle supplement. We need to do that in the U.S. already! It reduces over 90% of methane emissions.
  • algae can sequester 100 gigatons of CO2 per year! Sir David King has a deep ocean algae plan and Raffael Jovine has a near-ocean algae farm plan. Seaweed is macroalgae - not quite as productive as microalgae but still a great start.
  • @vmobile890
    Maybe South Lake Tahoe under water weeds could be harvested for something good ?
  • @neverrl3379
    We gonna fight climate change with some seaweed now? And win. Yes. They did it. They actually fixed it bois Gonna get some weed and join the fight asap
  • OH...we are saved...from the evil climate change monster...hooray...pip, pip...and all that rot!...
  • Lol,they said the same thing about cloud brightening,this is no more productive!