The Icelandic food tech company Vaxa Technologies has developed an effective and sustainable system that harnesses energy and water from a nearby geothermal power plant to cultivate microalgae for…
Pretty cool concept, but by those metrics, normal hydroponic cultivation of crops would be “carbon negative” as well if supplied from a similar power source. This is less about the algae, and more about the energy source for the artificial grow-lights etc…
Pretty cool concept, but by those metrics, normal hydroponic cultivation of crops would be “carbon negative” as well if supplied from a similar power source. This is less about the algae, and more about the energy source for the artificial grow-lights etc…
Most agriculture uses light from a green source: the sun… Although I suppose that’s a scarce resource in Iceland through half of the year.