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Home » Fueling the Future With Seaweed

Fueling the Future With Seaweed

October 25, 2017
Maritime Executive

WHOI was awarded $5.7m from the U.S. Department of Energy's research agency ARPA-E for two "MARINER" projects that develop tools and technology to advance the mass production of seaweed for biofuels and bio-based chemicals.

Currently in the U.S., seaweed is primarily used in food and food processing for humans and animals, and mostly comes from imported farmed product or wild harvests. Expanding seaweed farming domestically relieves pressure on wild stocks, creates jobs and revitalizes working waterfronts. Ultimately expanded and more efficient production will lead to expanded markets including feedstocks for biofuels. The ARPA-E estimates that in the U.S. combined brown and red seaweed farming could yield about 300 million dry metric tons per year. When converted to energy, that could fuel about 10 percent of the nation’s annual transportation needs.

"The MARINER program addresses a critical challenge that land production systems are unlikely to solve," explains biologist Scott Lindell, who is leading the research effort at WHOI. "How do we meet growing global biofuel needs and also meet the 50 to 100 percent increase in demand for food expected by 2050? Seaweed farming avoids the growing competition for fertile land, energy intensive fertilizers and freshwater resources associated with traditional agriculture."

With $3.7m, Lindell and a team of seaweed biologists, geneticists and entrepreneurs will develop a breeding program for sugar kelp Saccharina latissima, one of the most commercially important species. The breeding program will build a library of genetic resources associated with plant traits that produce a 20 to to 30 percent improvement over wild plants. Lindell says the team expects to develop novel genomic tools that will accelerate the production of improved plants while decreasing the need for costly offshore field evaluations.

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