Algasols floating photobioreactor technology has just been awarded the US patent. These photobioreactors are being deployed in the estuaries of the Bangladesh river delta region where brackish water provides the required flotation density. The current market for algal fish feed from Algasols photobioreactors is in the millions of tonnes per year at $3000/tonne and better than a 50% profit margin. As these PBRs prefer a salt water flotation medium but require wave breaks for oceanic deployment, they will provide an immediate economic driver for macroengineered floating oceanic structures, starting with their wavebreaks. The cost of the wavebreaks goes up only as the square root of the area protected from high sea state, so if the wavebreaks are engineered properly, they can double as ocean-front seasteads for agricultural settlements. Basing initial frontier settlement on agriculture is tried and true, so it would be good for the Seasteading Institute to look into Algasols technology and run the numbers.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:47:37 +0000
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