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And in the spring, when the sun returns to the ice, it forms the phytoplankton, grows under that ice, and then you get bigger sheets of seaweed, and then you get the zooplankton feeding on all that life.
So after we do that, we put it into a vacuum bag, add a little bit of seaweed, some spices, and we roll it, and this starts taking on the appearance of tuna.
Now, dolphins are social mammals, so they love to play, and one of their favorite games is to drag seaweed, or sargassum in this case, around.
Now, when dolphins solicit humans for this game, they'll often sink vertically in the water, and they'll have a little sargassum on their flipper, and they'll sort of nudge it and drop it sometimes on the bottom and let us go get it, and then we'll have a little seaweed keep away game.
Ultimately, they will often look to settle in a patch of flotsam, preferably a patch of floating seaweed.
You can see little fish, seaweed, the flora and fauna, you can watch it all discreetly, sliding underwater, looking around, and coming back to the surface, leaving no trace.
We could look at seaweed, the kelps, all these different varieties of things that can be high in omega-3s, can be high in proteins, tremendously good things.
I think of seaweed growing off the effluent of fish, for example.
"When it's all said and done, it's got to look like seaweed," said the owner.
In fact, over half the seafood we eat– from finfish and shellfish to seaweed and algae– isn’t caught in the wild.
In just 5 months, 4,000 square meters of ocean can produce 25 tons of seaweed and 250,000 of shellfish.
And I'm afraid of many, many more things besides that people can't even guess at, like seaweed and other things that are scary.
This is seaweed.
So the carbon that is part of that seaweed, just a few weeks ago, was floating in the atmosphere as atmospheric CO2, driving all the adverse consequences of climate change.
But I'm here today as an ambassador for this humble weed, seaweed.
They play a really big role in regulating our climate, and if we can enhance the growth of seaweed in them, we can use them, I think, to develop a climate-altering crop.
There are so many different kinds of seaweed, there's unbelievable genetic diversity in seaweed, and they're very ancient; they were some of the first multicellular organisms ever to evolve.
People are using special kinds of seaweed now for particular purposes, like developing very high-quality pharmaceutical products.
But you can also use seaweed to take a seaweed bath, it's supposed to be good for your skin; I can't testify to that, but you can do it.
The scalability is the big thing about seaweed farming.
You know, if we could cover nine percent of the world's ocean in seaweed farms, we could draw down the equivalent of all of the greenhouse gases we put up in any one year, more than 50 gigatons.
How many ocean-going seaweed farms do we actually have out there?
This little drawing here of a seaweed farm that's currently under construction tells you some very interesting things about seaweed.
You can see the seaweed growing on that rack, 25 meters down in the ocean there.
And the reason being that, you know, seaweed is not like trees, it doesn't have nonproductive parts like roots and trunks and branches and bark.
And with just a little bit of clean, renewable energy, you can pump that water up and use the nutrients in it to irrigate your seaweed crop.
I think that piles of stinking seaweed are probably going to be the least of our problems.
If we are putting gigatons of seaweed into the deep ocean, we're affecting life down there.
The good news is that we know that a lot of seaweed already reaches the deep ocean, after storms or through submarine canyons.
I mean, it may be that these ocean-going seaweed farms will need to be mobile, to distribute the seaweed across vast areas of the ocean, rather than creating a big stinking pile in one place.
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