An area of ocean almost the size of Australia could support commercial seaweed farming around the world, providing food for humans, feed supplements for cattle, and alternative fuels, according to new research.
But the authors of the research said there are a range of potential negative impacts on marine life that will need to be balanced with the benefits of a global seaweed farming industry. “Cultivating seaweeds for food, feed and fuel within even a fraction of the 650m hectares of suitable ocean could have profound benefits to land use, emissions reduction, water and fertiliser use,” the authors wrote., said: “People around the world are looking at the ocean as this big ‘untapped’ resource and asking if we should be using more of it.”as a cattle feed supplement that has been shown to result in drastically lower methane emissions from cows.
It won’t happen because the greens will shut it down just as the will with offshore wind farms when they find out what they will do to whales. What you might call friendly fire.