Combatting climate change with robotics and seaweed
Seaweed is amazing. It can absorb carbon faster than the rainforests, and grows in the ocean without the need for freshwater or additional nutrients. It can be used as food, fertiliser, animal feed, packaging, carbon dioxide removal and so much more.
Our mission is to develop the technology to grow seaweed sustainably and cheaply, making these uses commonplace, and to make sinking seaweed for billion tonne scale carbon dioxide removal commercially viable.
AlgaRay, our first robot, sinks invasive seaweed into the deep ocean.
By doing this, it not only locks carbon away for hundreds of years, but also prevents environmental disasters caused by the seaweed (a floating
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Our second robot, the AlgaVator, increases automation in seaweed cultivation.
The AlgaVator is designed to decrease the cost of growing seaweed, so we can use it for high volume products such as animal feed, fertiliser and packaging, or sink it for carbon dioxide removal.
The ocean is our most important resource, and the world's biggest carbon sink.
We need to decarbonise our food chains and industries as quickly as possible. We believe that the ocean is the key to a low carbon future, and are building the technology to make it happen.
Be part of the solution
All of us are contributing to climate change. The good news is, you can join the fight right now by contributing to carbon dioxide removal, and helping us to develop our technology. How much can you help?
This would offset about 18 days of meals for the average person (including growth, production, and transportation costs).
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This would offset about 650 miles of driving, for the average car that gets 24 miles per gallon.
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Flying 6,000 miles, which is about two trips between Boston and London, uses 1,000 kg (or 1 tonne) of CO2 per passenger.
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Did you know? The average person emits 12,000 to 18,000 kg of carbon dioxide per year!
