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 power turned ever cheaper – however get carbon dioxide out of the ambiance.
In the long run, reaching the Nice Drawdown, because it turned identified, 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 strategy modified a…
