Disruptive Supplies of Affordable Biomass Feedstock Grown in the Open Ocean
- Marine BioEnergy, Inc., La Canada, CA (United States)
Marine BioEnergy was founded to commercialize a patented invention to enable open ocean kelp farms to produce feedstock by depth-cycling the farms. The concept is to surface the kelp during the day to absorb sunlight and CO2, and submerge the kelp at night to the nutrient-rich waters below the thermocline (~60-300 m deep). In an experiment, the kelp thrived in the depth-cycling environment. ARPA-E provided additional funds for Marine BioEnergy to develop a design of a full-scale farm system. Marine BioEnergy is preparing to deploy these farms, towed by unmanned drone submarines, to depth-cycle the kelp and produce disruptive supplies of affordable biomass feedstock that can be used to make carbon-neutral, drop-in fuels to enable the transition to net-zero carbon.
- Research Organization:
- Marine BioEnergy, Inc., La Canada, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AR0000689
- OSTI ID:
- 2004273
- Report Number(s):
- 2023--01
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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