The technology involved buoy based nutrient up welling pumps powered by methane. The Methane was produced from kelp plants grown on a mesh net attached below the water line. The deep sea water from a mile or two down was rich enough to fertilize the kelp; including iron. The kelp was processed, milled and dumped into a tank on the buoy. A salt tolerant strain of bacteria made methane. Some powered the buoy or the pumps and the rest was fuel for sale. By products included fish and shellfish grown around the same buoy. Sometimes these fish were penned and some were free swimming. the greatest by product is that these buoys are ideal as open ocean property markers. We need a way to mark and this Own key areas of the sea. You only husband properly the things that you own.
Back in the 1980 Jacques-Yves Cousteau championed a ocean based biofuel
technology that has since been lost.
