This sea algae suspension can break into everything you eat and wear
Marine algae forests have Become a very suffocated well for anyone looking for solutions to some of the biggest environmental problems in the world. Climate -conscious companies use seaweed instead of oil -derived materials to make products as sustainable shopping bags and furnitureS Growing more forests than seaweed is welcomed as a way of CarbonWhile the seaweed stored are placed in livestock treatment Cows loaded with methane.
Now a company called Marine biological system He wants to get on the wave of seaweed by breaking down these ocean greenery in fermented mess. The purpose of the launch is to eventually gather millions of pounds of seaweed, to pull it and to keep it, and then analyze this congenital Goo and to separate it into its main components. From there, minerals, proteins or carbohydrates can be degraded, extracted and used for multiple user applications.
The first place you will go to is In your foodAs emulsifiers used in many types of food production. Then, maybe other products such as cosmetics and everything made with plastic. First, the company just wants to collect all these sweet, sweet seaweed.
Marine Biologics CEO Patrick Griffin comes from last life in finance and cryptocurrency – he was the first employee of Blockchain Company Ripple. But his time works directly in the cryptocurrency, sharply ended after a horrific surfing incident.
Tied by a wave in the ocean, Griffin’s surf hits him in the face as he sailed in the water and pierced his left eyeball, which then had to be removed. It was a traumatic experience that he says left it with a very different perspective on life and a sense of priority. “I really started a journey in thinking about it, well, what will be the next chapter?” says Griffin.
Eventually the attempt prompted him to leave behind him blockchain and CryptoIndustries that are also very climate and have massive carbon printsS He left Ripple and launched his own company with a water manager.
“It’s a little cliché,” he admits. “You make your bones in cryptocurrency and then launch a climate technology company.”
Ironically, the incident again excited him from the ocean. He saw a gap in the climate resistance market in the form of basic building materials. Even if all other current climate resistance efforts have worked-electrification of carriers, investments in renewable energy-products are still often built on the base of plastics or other oil-based materials.
“The chemicals and materials we use today are generally built on oil,” says Griffin. “This is the last piece of the puzzle that you will really need to break to make a great impact.”
He believes that marine algae – or macro -bodies, since each of the thousands of multicellular ocean plants is classified – it can be a way to do this. Compared to ground vegetation, sea algae grows rapidly (sometimes Too fast) And there are rich but wide variable chemical composites. In order to rely on a consistent source of the various chemical components that can be found in seaweed, you will first need a way to collect data on the plants themselves.
“If people better understand the chemicals of the sea algae, we might better understand the markets that could handle them,” says the company’s chief scientific director Spencer Serin. “And this will rely on standardized strategies for testing marine algae, which must be very open and transparent and to be performed at a high level.”
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