Marine Microalgae: Climate, Energy, and Food Security from the Sea

Greene, Charles H.; Huntley, Mark E.; Gerber, Léda N.; Sills, Deborah L.; Granados, Joe; Tester, Jefferson W.; Beal, Colin M.; Walsh, Michael J.; Bidigare, Robert R.; Brown, Susan L.; Cochlan, William P.; Johnson, Zackary I.; Lei, Xin Gen; Machesky, Stephen C.; Redalje, Donald G.; Richardon, Ruth E.; Kiron, Viswanath; Corless, Virginia

doi:10.5670/oceanog.2016.91

Title: Marine Microalgae: Climate, Energy, and Food Security from the Sea

Journal Article · Mon Nov 07 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Oceanography

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.91· OSTI ID:2229552

Greene, Charles H. ^[1]; Huntley, Mark E. ^[2]; Gerber, Léda N. ^[3]; Sills, Deborah L. ^[4]; Granados, Joe ^[5]; Tester, Jefferson W. ^[1]; Beal, Colin M. ^[6]; Walsh, Michael J. ^[7]; Bidigare, Robert R. ^[8]; Brown, Susan L. ^[9]; Cochlan, William P. ^[10]; Johnson, Zackary I. ^[11]; Lei, Xin Gen ^[1]; Machesky, Stephen C. ^[12]; Redalje, Donald G. ^[13]; Richardon, Ruth E. ^[1]; Kiron, Viswanath ^[14]; Corless, Virginia ^[15]

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (United States)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (United States); University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI (United States); Cinglas Ltd., Chester (United Kingdom)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (United States); University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI (United States)
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (United States)
University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI (United States)
B&D Engineering and Consulting LLC, Lander, WY (United States)
Bentley University, Waltham, MA (United States)
University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI (United States)
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA (United States)
Duke University, Beaufort, NC (United States)
Kokua Contracting and Project Management, Kailua-Kona, HI (United States)
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (United States)
Nord University, Bodo (Norway)
Novihum Technologies GmbH, Dresden (Germany)

Climate, energy, and food security are three of the greatest challenges society faces this century. Solutions for mitigating the effects of climate change often conflict with solutions for ensuring society’s future energy and food requirements. For example, BioEnergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) has been proposed as an important method for achieving negative CO2 emissions later this century while simultaneously producing renewable energy on a global scale. However, BECCS has many negative environmental consequences for land, nutrient, and water use as well as biodiversity and food production. In contrast, large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae can provide society with a more environmentally favorable approach for meeting the climate goals agreed to at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, producing the liquid hydrocarbon fuels required by the global transportation sector, and supplying much of the protein necessary to feed a global population approaching 10 billion people.

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Research Organization:: Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Technology Development (EE-20)

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0007091; EE0003371

OSTI ID:: 2229552

Journal Information:: Oceanography, Vol. 29, Issue 4; ISSN 1042-8275

Publisher:: The Oceanography SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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