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Right, and that's fantastic, but that's not sequestering carbon. That's growing food.
by orthecreedence 4y ago
Right, and that's fantastic, but that's not sequestering carbon. That's growing food.
- ggm 4y agoDisplacement is useful, albeit mischaracterized.
- notatoad 4y agoyes it is. but the point isn't to sequester carbon for no reason, it's to reduce overall atmospheric CO2. and if you can replace more carbon-intensive food production with seaweed farming, that's a win. also, regardless of how quickly it grows and is harvested any sort of farming does sequester carbon for as long as those crops are still crops, and seaweed can (afaik) grow year-round, permanently replenishing itself. if the total biomass in your seaweed farm stays relatively stable at 10T, that's ~10T of carbon removed from the atmosphere for as long as that farm exists. the fact that some of it is getting harvested is irrelevant as long as more keeps growing.
- soperj 4y agoAt least with Bull kelp, it doesn't go year round.