‘Like a 40-metre pizza’: the seaweed farms that could feed us all – at a cost
by Svenja Beller in Cebu from Environment | The Guardian on (#6GDVP)
Efforts to grow seaweed are springing up in the Philippines and beyond, and they're in line for Elon Musk's $1m Milestone prize. However, the Climate Foundation's plans for the ocean have troubled some scientists
A white metal platform on the surface of the Pacific Ocean faces another, smaller one some distance away. Sam Donohue stands on the big platform, Gorio Pepito on the small one. They press buttons, and a high-pitched whirring sets in.
Pepito and Donohue release the buttons. The whirring stops. They communicate by walkie-talkie. Everything's OK. A crab walks across the big platform: that's their pet, Donohue says. They press the buttons again.
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