Well large-scale seaweed cultivation has been going on in east asia for centuries. China is currently the world's largest producer cultivating over 4 million tonnes annually. The worldwide total is nearly 7 million tonnes of seaweed. Check out the photo...
http://seaweed.ucg.ie/cultivation/nori_cultivation_scans/PorphyraNets. jpg I don't think it is adversely affecting the climate. In some cases seaweed produced is used as feed in polyculture activities, to increase fish stocks. Compared to some of the ideas out there for replacing/reducing petroleum consumption, seaweed cultivation is positively low-tech and in my opinion, fairly benign. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These very grand ideas, while they can be fun to engage in, can often > bring with them a certain sustained ignoring of the Precautionary > Principle. So I think that would be a basis for cogent criticism as > well. I think this is inherent to your criticism, I am just stating > it more broadly, explicitly: > > Proposals for global-scale new ways of doing things should be > subjected to peer-activist-review, as best we can, to find ways that > they might have drawbacks from a Global Earth Science standpoint. > Criticisms which arise, I would say, should not be regarded as valid > reasons to dismiss the ideas out-of-hand necessarily, but should be > given some due consideration. > > In this case, I agree that the oceans and the energy incident upon > them are firmly inter-twined in our present global ecosystem and that > a global-scale project for changing that setup could be hazardous to > our health. IMO, of course. > > MM > > > >> > Well, I don't think any more of that than I did last week, or was > >>it > >> > last month. As then, I think the last thing we need is large- scale > >> > messing with the ocean surfaces to produce gargantuan amounts of > >> > energy to support a wasteful and unsustainable lifestyle. As Hakan > >> > pointed out last time you aired this, or was it the time before, > >>the > >> > oceans are much more sensitive to disruptive factors than the > >> > atmosphere is, and we're seeing where that has got us. Do you want > >>to > >> > double the damage? > >> > > >> > But it still seems to me you take no notice of anybody else's > >>opinion > >> > unless it agrees with you. > >> > > >> > Keith ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Home Selling? Try Us! http://us.click.yahoo.com/QrPZMC/iTmEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
