![]() Odlin is working with scientists and universities to collect data to ensure that carbon is getting removed. Some of the kelp that Running Tide Technology is growing “It’s essentially running 150 years of the oil industry in reverse in 15 years.” “The intentional removal of eight hundred gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere will probably be the biggest engineering challenge in human history,” Odlin said. “The ocean is a tremendous natural carbon sink,” he added.īut this is no simple task, he acknowledges. ![]() “After the kelp grows, the biodegradable buoy will dissolve and lose its buoyancy and everything will sink to the ocean bottom,” Oldin told CNN. As it grows, the plant eventually becomes too heavy for the buoy and sinks to the bottom of the ocean where the massive water pressure pushes it into the sea floor. The seeds are grown in a hatchery, and once matured, the team puts the kelp into biodegradable buoys. ![]() ![]() Gravity then puts the kelp under tremendous pressure as it sinks to the deep ocean. From his uncle’s re-purposed lobster boat, he and his team use ocean currents to move the kelp to deep water where it can be sunk. “Kelp is one of the fastest growing things in the world, so it pulls carbon in at the fastest rate of any species in the world,” Odlin said. ![]()
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