Not exact matches
As in the wild,
farmed shellfish (oysters, mussels, abalone) feed
on plankton and / or
algae and do not require fish meal in their diets.
Such vast
algae farms might also subsist
on so - called «impaired» water, either salty ocean or polluted waters, Pate says.
Ironically, nanochloropsis is an industrial
algae strain typically grown for feeding rotifers
on fish
farms.
Another company ready to make the leap into commercial scale production of
algae fuel is Sapphire Energy, which operates a 2,200 acre
algae farm in New Mexico where oil is harvested across 70 open ponds and refined
on site.
Perhaps the bighead and silver carp would remove excess
algae from ponds
on fish
farms.
Farmed fish raised
on grain - based diets and vegetable oils, as opposed to
algae, have less of the good fats and more of the bad saturated fat — much like grain - fed livestock.
To truly whet your appetite, I can?t skip the added ingredients you?ll get with a
farmed fillet: dioxins, PCBs, fire retardants (those da - n things are everywhere, aren?t they???), pesticides (especially for sea lice), antibiotics, copper sulfate (to take care of
algae on the nets), and?
I have not seen much literature lately
on the pros and cons
on vertical
farming of
algae for bio-fuel purposes.
But when pressed, Lovelock said he does believe there's potential in «biochar» — that is, converting some of the world's biomass (e.g. forest slash, agricultural residues, fast - growing grasses grown
on depleted soils,
farmed algae) into charcoal and sequestering the black mass in soil or under the ocean.
Hello all, well this all is getting very dire, My vegetable garden is rotting in the ground, to much rain and scoring heat,, I noticed most of my trees
on my 5 acre
farm are browning at the top and the leaves are thinning
on all of them and around 10 of them are completely dead... We live here in the carpet capital of the world and seems to me that most don't see or don't care about the sky or the trees or the air they breathe... Just this week We had to completely drain our grand kids pool and start over, with all this rain it turned green and no amount of
algae killer would clear it up, The PH was insanely high...... It's the small things in life that make what's left of life
on this planet........
But not if Croatian Architects UPI2M have their way; They propose building vertical
farms and biofuel factories
on top of existing gas stations, using
algae and bamboo grown
on top to fuel up cars below.
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