Andrew,
Ocean Macroalgal Afforestation is more of a concept revival with better technology and increased urgency than a new idea. The paper is vetted by co-author David Chynoweth, who has decades of research on seaweed to energy. I confess to alsobeing a co-author.
You hit thekey question: At
Methane is flared around the world by the oil industry as a useless by
product. Such flaring is generally limited by environmental
legislation rather than the existence of viable markets. Even
reasonably large methane sources close to population centres are
flared off, such as in the Niger
Andrew,
Yes.Scaling the floating (or submerged) shipping , storage, and gas-to-liquid conversion facilitiesmay limit how fast we can getOMA toreplace all fossil fuel use and reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Luckily, OMA is unusual in that it is sustainable at the necessary scale to justify
